“I used to live in New York City. And in that town, in the course of my day-to-day business, one of my greatest joys was when I’d witness one quite obviously crazy person ask another quite obviously crazy person for directions. Like once this woman in a t-shirt that had an illustration of two Mickey Mouse gloves giving the ‘hang loose’ sign on it was sitting on a curb trying to light a cigarette, and another woman came up to her, started talking in a calculated whisper about how she had to short-sell some estate documents, and did she know how to get to Union Square, and yes it’s very hot, very hot, but she did need to get to Union Square because there really was only a limited time with these documents, you understand. People were waiting. To get to Union Square from where they stood, you quite literally just had to point north and say, ‘that way.’ Ten minutes later, I come out of the deli, they’re still at it. Hang Loose was insisting that an abscess tooth was nothing to fool over, life was too goddamned short.”
A Better Beast: In which monsters tell stories.
Argosy
Ink and watercolor.
Only Connect...
Painted this ditty for my friends Michelle and Matthew as a wedding gift. "Only connect" of course references E.M. Forster's novel Howard's End: "Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die." I've always enjoyed that sentiment as it clearly does not pussyfoot around.
Golden Circle Story Time
Today is National Doughnut Day, so herewith I dust off my long-retired webcomic (2008-2011), Golden Circle Story Time, which was--ostensibly--all about doughnuts and particular doughnut shop in the fictional Northern Californian city of Los Besos.
