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Category Archives: nonsense
Random Practice: Starbot
Posted in Art, drawing, nonsense, science fiction, sketchbook
Tagged comic, robot, sketch
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Sketchbook: Rocket Dog
Posted in Art, drawing, ephemera, illustrator, nonsense, sketchbook
Tagged dog, rocket, skates
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Mole Folk: Underground Dystopia of the Future
Posted in drawing, illustrator, nonsense, sketchbook
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The Top 10 Big Movies I’m Looking Forward to this Summer
10. Fish Mouth A gritty reboot of When Harry Met Sally, with Rooney Mara as Sally, Christian Bale as Harry, Channing Tatum as Bruno Kirby, and Charlotte Gainsbourg as Carrie Fisher. 9. Narcoleptic, Parts 1 and 2 The uneventful journey … Continue reading
10 Completely True Shocking Facts About ‘Star Wars’ That You Probably Didn’t Know Before the Internet
10. The famous friendship between Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart started when they crossed paths during the casting process for the voice of R2-D2, a role that eventually went to Zero Mostel. 9. The very first draft of the basic … Continue reading
Posted in list, nonsense, random thoughts, science fiction, writing
Tagged star wars
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“Some actually marvelous function . . .”
The headline was the actual true beginning of today’s spam comment, which came courtesy of Zemcron78349MVh, who hails (I imagine) from a lovely little Quonset hut on the edge of the Taklamakan. The spam included a friendly invitation to invest … Continue reading
Posted in book arts, ephemera, nonsense, random thoughts
Tagged bewick, quadrupeds
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Fake Book Project: ‘A Brief History of Perelorn’
Clearly, this is hard to read. Click on the image to open a PDF version. A page from The Story of Oxford, by S.P.B. Mais, 1951 A long time ago, I had to do a quick metal typesetting thing for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, book arts, design, nonsense, writing
Tagged baskerville, book design, facsimile, imaginary country, indesign, typesetting
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Newer Job Ad
Domestic Surveillance Associate Federal [REDACTED] for Strategic [REDACTED], [REDACTED], Virginia These days, it seems like everybody’s spying on everybody else! Google does it, Facebook does it, even poor old Yahoo! still manages to do it, somehow! And you better believe … Continue reading
New Job Ads
Junior Graphic Artist National DynaNozzle, Trout Mountain, GA Do you like to draw? Do you like secrets? Would you like to draw pictures of top secret types of missiles and jet planes? Would you like to work in a cubicle … Continue reading
Super Messy New Art Made From Really Messy Old Art
For a thing I’m supposed to be working on and in fact actually am working on, except not right now, because of needing some catch-up sleep and also various other reasons. But, anyway, I’ll be working on it again very, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, illustrator, nonsense, sketchbook
Tagged book arts, collage, xerox, zine
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Pen Pal
This important message arrived in my mailbox yesterday: Your Diplomat Has Now Arrive! And, well, at first I thought it was fake, but then I actually read the email and the guy ended up sounding pretty legit. Apparently, they had … Continue reading
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Genius Spam
I think my so-called blog has now become a thing sort of like a laundry lint trap, because the only comments it gets anymore are just billions of spam comments. Although they’re pretty entertaining comments, even if they’re generated by … Continue reading
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Pimento
Ah, Spring Break at last! Now I can resume work on my novel Pimento, a vast historical saga about seventeen generations of the Scovilles, a family of pepper magnates in the Central American “Pepper Republic” of Costa Mala. I’m working … Continue reading
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