May 2006

Tornado Season: New Pants

May 31, 2006

It’s true, you know. Actually, the cat looks sort of horrified and surprised about his new pants. Please do not be alarmed about his broken leg, he’s actually just kicking up his heel and I have no sense of proportion.

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Tornado Season: Candy Stipe

May 30, 2006

This is Michael Stipe, of R.E.M. fame, flying around Athens, Georgia and dispensing candy to hipsters and non-hipsters alike. You can tell it’s Stipe due to the stubble, or the chicken pox, if that’s how you’d like to interpret my drawing. Don’t worry, he knows what kind of candy you like, and he always has [...]

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Tornado Season: Banjo Playing Bears

May 26, 2006

This is one of the time travelling bears from the Feather King series of artwork, in this case he is considering a feather dropped from a cloud by a mysterious hand. The first bear I tried to draw looked like one of those animatronic banjo playing bears, but I like the second version. The feather [...]

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The Tiger

May 26, 2006

God made the birds But the birds Made the tigers Did you know that? They lined us up On the jungle floor They said We made your eyes deep We sharpened your teeth We tied them together With string One will always do To the other They said We will bind Your ribs With stripes [...]

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Tornado Season: Starling

May 24, 2006

Over the last week or so, an unanswerable question has been popping up in my head like a song. It’s a big non sequitur from my usual thought process, and I keep thinking I should build a poem around it, but it resists any attempt to dress it with other words. So it stands alone, [...]

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Tornado Season: Abe Fight

May 22, 2006

This was supposed to be Abraham Lincoln punching a tiger in the face, but the next thing I knew I was drawing a pig getting the drop on ole’ honest Abe. The fact that Lincoln is wearing some sort of robe is due to the fact that it’s Lincoln’s ghost, and not to the fact [...]

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Tornado Season: Dog Who Guards The Door

May 19, 2006

This is the dog who guards the door, and the elephant’s grave. Or should I say, tiny elephant’s grave. Looks like the elephant could use some coins over his eyes, too, but my hasty drawing has left him staring at his coffin lid for the rest of eternity. I don’t know who would be coming [...]

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Tornado Season: Baby Rabbits

May 17, 2006

My mother called me to say she found two dead baby rabbits scattered in the field in front of our house. On further investigation, it was determined that crows were the culprit. Now that they have decided to cast their shadow on our front yard, no tender thing is safe. Here is a skeleton singing [...]

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The Salesman

May 16, 2006

The salesman On the stairway Looks up to see Nude women In the window Their skin is pink His tongue is pink He is afraid He may never speak again He is ashamed of color From the middle of his eye The blackest river Poured out We rode it to heaven On little boats Everyone [...]

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Tornado Season: DT Rooster

May 15, 2006

This is the delirium tremens rooster. My great uncle told me a story once about how he was sent to the mental hospital for severe alcohol dependence, and the withdrawal nearly killed him. As his body worked through it, he had a hallucination that a rooster was riding in circles on a bicycle around his [...]

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County Fair

May 14, 2006

I walked With a friend Who died Through The county fair In a dream Many years ago The eye Could not rest On any one thing I saw the ferris wheel As though Through gauze She said, “I can’t Watch out For you Anymore. I Have places I need to be.” I said “Tell me [...]

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Holding Hands At Best

May 13, 2006

As one day Changes vases for its flowers Another lays a dress The first will keep the vases The last will wear its final rest Both are touching fingertips Or holding hands at best As one day Turns the stove knobs Another makes A bone for dog The first will cook The lamb and hog [...]

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At His Feet The Drunks Of Love

May 11, 2006

My soul was sleeping In the milk, I yelled at him To breathe His face as white As the moon, Like the mayor Drunk at noon, Blowing kisses At the whores, At his feet The drunks of love Were sleeping On the barroom floors Now that he is loose He wanders, Bathing In my streams [...]

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Tornado Season: Birthday Joke

May 10, 2006

This is a joke I’ve been making about my birthday, which is on Friday. Except I’ve noticed that whenever I make this joke around girls, they get this uneasy look, like maybe on my birthday I’m actually going to go “make-out crazy” like the cookie monster for cookies, or should I say, “cookies”. Don’t worry, [...]

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Tornado Season: Sad Pigs

May 8, 2006

This is the king of sad pigs. I like his curly tail. I’m not sure how he walks around on those legs, they don’t seem to be biologically possible. Here’s a little secret: I’m going to steal his crown.

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Tornado Season: Cowboy

May 4, 2006

This is a cowboy, riding a manatee around like a horse. The manatee’s head had to be redrawn, the first version was drawn with an eye patch, a smaller cowboy hat and a shining, glowing red nose for some reason. The final result was unspeakably sinister. I like the cowboy for the most part, I [...]

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Tornado Season: Me And A Donkey

May 3, 2006

This is a drawing of me and a donkey floating around a river on a coffin. This was an image I spent a lot of time thinking about when I got the flu over the weekend and was unable to leave my couch. I’m really pleased with the way the donkey came out, even if [...]

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