Does anybody know what the hell that means?
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Joe Draws a Banana
Joe returns to his artwork, this time a nostalgic digi-ma-doodle of a banana,1 his favorite food from back in the day when he had a stomach and the general set of innards required to eat. Poor Joe. No more bananas.
1 There was indeed a request for Joe drawing on an iPada though the requested subject was not a banana. But sometimes Joe asserts his own free will.
a As this doodle was in turn drawn on an iPad. Again, wheels within wheels, man. (This seems to be the catch phrase of Joe's current day.)
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Joe Picks Out a Halloween Costume
With the Halloween season nearly upon us, Joe must choose a costume. What will he be? Ah! Joe decides to dress as... a skeleton.1
More to come!
1 Wheels within wheels, man.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Joe Plays Roller Derby
After solving the debt ceiling crisis, Joe blows off a little steam with a vigorous round of roller derby.
What's next in Joe the Skeleton's New Big, Very Exciting Day?
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
DJ Sweater
June made DJ a sweater out of an old partnerless argyle sock. Brilliant.1
1 I always thought the little-dogs-in-outfits thing was just frou-frou. Turns out that little Chihuahua-esque critters are actually prone to chills. Mr. DJ shivers when there's a nip in the air. An argyle sock-sweater is just the thing.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Joe Solves the Debt Ceiling Crisis
Having started his day with some quiet painting, Joe steps out into the world and solves the debt ceiling crisis.1 Go Joe! More to come in Joe's New Big, Very Exciting Day.
Monday, October 14, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Favorite Idiomaticisms of the Past Couple of Days
- Eavesdropping at Whole Foods: My cashier, talking about her niece or somesuch, described here as "spurled". It took me a moment to parse: "spurled" = "spoiled".
- The girls wanted doughnuts. It was early. I stumbled bleary-eyed into the doughnut shop. The lady at the counter asked me, "Are you woke yet?" (Again — partially due to my not-woke-yet-ness — it took me a moment to parse: "What's that?" "Are you woke yet?" "Oh, yeah, trying to get there.")
Friday, October 11, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Walkin' the Dogs
With our new addition, I now walk two dogs. It's like flying two kites at once. And one of the kites is young and goofy and doesn't quite understand how this business works. There's lots of tangling. Good fun.
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Joe Paints a Landscape
Before entering into the hectic fray of his busy day, Joe takes a meditative moment to paint a landscape.1
1 Okay, okay. This wasn't actually one of the requests. (We'll get to those.) But a while back, Matt asked me to paint landscapes. Trouble is, we don't have many landscape opportunities in our densely packed little city. (And landscapes are hard, and I'm lazy.a) So as a bit of smart-assery, I outsourced the landscape painting to Joe.b
a Though I may still get around to them one of these days.
b For what it's worth, the landscape that Joe is painting is in fact a cheeky insider reference to a landscape I did myself paint as a young lad, the Lost Painting at the End of the Earth. So... I've drawn a landscape-drawing-copy of a landscape-painting I once painted, and I've drawn Joe in turn painting a landscape-painting of that landscape-drawing-copy. Wheels within wheels, man.
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Joe the Skeleton's New Big, Very Exciting Day1
Perhaps you remember Joe the Skeleton. Perhaps you don't. A recap. Joe is a skeleton. He wears a funny hat. He has big exciting days. And he does whatever the readers say he does (a sort of crowd-sourced bloggy choose-your-own-adventure).
Now, after retreating from the limelight for a spell, Joe is back. And he's ready for a new big, very exciting day. And you have to say what he does during this big day. And I, the mere facilitator of this illustrative narrative, draw it. And then you tell me the next thing. And I draw it. And so on and so forth. And Joe’s day unfolds with great fun (and bizarre unpredictability).
Let the game begin! What happens first on Joe the Skeleton's New Big, Very Exciting Day?
Now, after retreating from the limelight for a spell, Joe is back. And he's ready for a new big, very exciting day. And you have to say what he does during this big day. And I, the mere facilitator of this illustrative narrative, draw it. And then you tell me the next thing. And I draw it. And so on and so forth. And Joe’s day unfolds with great fun (and bizarre unpredictability).
Let the game begin! What happens first on Joe the Skeleton's New Big, Very Exciting Day?
1 As per Marco's request.
Meteorological Musings: Winds of Change
Well, Karen was a shoo-shoo:1 puffs of wind, piddles of rain, a few events cancelled.2 But now this cold front has moved through, and suddenly we have our New Orleans version of autumn. Right now, at 6 a.m., it's a frigid sixty-four degrees.3 (Brr.) And highs today in the mere seventies. We have entered one of those brief spells where our weather here is what might be considered perfect.
1 A nothin' storm.
2 Our weekends are so busy these days — kids activities and whatnot — that was the most significant consequence, a comparatively unbooked schedule, a quiet treat.
3 Tangentially (that's what footnotes are for), DJ Tiny is curled up in my lap, and he has the hiccups. Oh, there. They just stopped. Dogs with hiccups are funny.
2 Our weekends are so busy these days — kids activities and whatnot — that was the most significant consequence, a comparatively unbooked schedule, a quiet treat.
3 Tangentially (that's what footnotes are for), DJ Tiny is curled up in my lap, and he has the hiccups. Oh, there. They just stopped. Dogs with hiccups are funny.
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Party Time
Driving home just now, I pulled up at a light behind a construction guy in a battered white truck. As soon as he came to a stop, he popped open the driver-side door, walked around to the back of the truck, opened a cooler in the back, took out a Bud Light tall-boy, got back in the truck, and when the light turned green, rolled on his way. I guess party time couldn't wait.
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