September 2006

aki aki

September 29, 2006

the monkey say say “aki aki” from a tree made of your ribbon i know how it is tied it to another boy he showed me the knot you two glorious lonely kite strings are tied and tethered to a phone ring ring ring hello the monkey say say “aki” once twice then hang up [...]

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Scene Missing Turns Two Today

September 28, 2006

Two years ago today I posted my first interview, with Gordon Stelter, who plays ragtime piano out of the back of a converted truck in downtown Athens. And so I have drawn him. I don’t believe he was actually wearing a top hat when I met him, but I’ve been thinking about top hats lately. [...]

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Tornado Season: Misbehave, Cats.

September 25, 2006

When I die, I want to my spirit to wander the earth, telling cats to misbehave. Not like they need the encouragement. But maybe there are bad things that they haven’t thought of yet. So I’d be like a consultant for a large corporation, except the corporation is cats, and the consultant is me, without [...]

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Mr. Bones & Jimmy

September 19, 2006

For those of you that remember, I used to make comics in MS Paint about Mr. Bones the talking skeleton and his friend Jimmy, a talking shovel, respectively. I’ve included them here as a PDF download, for anyone who’d like to see what goofing off at an anesthesia billing company when you’re barely old enough [...]

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Ink Blot: Anchors Away

September 19, 2006

In which photos are randomly pulled from the Scene Missing Flickr photostream, run through a Photoshop Rorschach filter, and analyzed. This is an anchor, cut loose and sinking to the bottom of the sea, as the ghosts of pirate dead float over to speculate on the ship from which it originated. Surely now it will [...]

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Ink Blot: Split Trunk Tree

September 18, 2006

In which photos are randomly pulled from the Scene Missing Flickr photostream, run through a Photoshop Rorschach filter, and analyzed. This is the base of a tree lit by an internal fire. He’s yelling out loud because his trunk is split in two, both sides unaware of the other and pulling him apart. Even though [...]

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Poems Read Out Loud

September 15, 2006

The Winter Pageant Is there anything worse than poetry read out loud sometimes? Sometimes it can add depth to a poet’s work and enhance the experience of a poem, but often it’s really hard to sit through. In most cases, if writers were meant to read their work out loud, they’d say their poems into [...]

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Ink Blot: Spotted Elephant

September 11, 2006

In which photos are randomly pulled from the Scene Missing Flickr photostream, run through a Photoshop Rorschach filter, and analyzed. This is a spotted elephant looking you right in the eye with an X drawn on his forehead. Beware any animal of an unnatural color, especially one that has been marked by an unknown source, [...]

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Eighteen Hundred Questions

September 7, 2006

in which new answers are given to questions from other sources. New Answers To The Most Popular Questions On Ask Yahoo! at 3:14pm on September 6th, 2006: Q: Was Sherlock Holmes based on a real person? A: When I was young, I inherited a pair of Sherlock Holmes books from my aunt, along with a [...]

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Ink Blot: Bulls Under Water

September 5, 2006

In which photos are randomly pulled from the Scene Missing Flickr photostream, run through a Photoshop Rorschach filter, and analyzed. These look like two bulls facing each other, diving into the ocean. I stole the term “bulls under water” from an ex-girlfriend. She taught a dance class to elementary school aged children, and one of [...]

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September 1, 2006

Do you know why Jeff Buckley died in the river? He was swimming with his boots on. I dated a girl years ago who loved Jeff Buckley. She drank a lot, and one time she called me in the middle of the afternoon and told me I had to come over “right now”. When I [...]

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