The Diogenes Club
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
A Short Walk Through Evergroove-- a Comix-eye View
The main "Red Square" and Library Building for The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. It was somewhere on these bricks Lynda Barry dropped a human skeleton and looked in horror as it shattered into tiny pieces.
Behind these doors in the CAB Building (Campus Activities Building), before the place went through a major facelift, sat the office of the student newspaper, The Cooper Point Journal when Matt Groening was editor. Today the area houses student activities offices.
I was amazed and pleased to see the Stairwell Dragons are still with us! Our fellow cartoonist David George was fascinated by this spiral mural. Cruz Esquivel and I shared an adventure with local law enforcement.
The area where the Library Ghost was originally spotted in 1988. According to the eyewitness who returned to area and demonstrated where the ghost had been seen, the being would've been walking away from the camera in the center of the photo.
The huge stairs are now absent, but this is the spot where Evergroove's amazing dedication ceremony took place in 1972.
This squat little cube is actually an air vent and one of many entrances to the fabled steam tunnels. If you are inside this thing you can see people through the grate.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Phone photo 885
The "Reserved Parking" sign for the disabled shows how far ahead of their time the loggers were, anticipating the ADA decades before the rest of the country.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Phone photo 884
My backyard was carpeted with these little guys last month.
They grew under a large black walnut tree where nothing else can grow but moss.
They grew under a large black walnut tree where nothing else can grow but moss.
Do you mycological types have any idea what kind these are? I like the quote: "There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters." I personally don't like to eat mushrooms for any reason, but I am curious. This year I had several different types of mushrooms show up, more than usual, but these fellows were the most plentiful.
Phone photo 882
Olympia, Washington: The Fetid Lake of Doom bordered by the "Isthmus," upon which stands a tall building locals call "The Mistake By the Lake." In the background is Budd Inlet, site of the famous 1976 Sea World whale controversy. Also the former home of the Mothball Fleet.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Red/Blue Republican/Democrat
For some reason in recent history, states that lean Republican are known as "Red" states while states that go for the Dems are known as "Blue" states.
McLuhan would've had a field day with this. But I suppose it has to with the color red being connected to a visceral, reactionary and regressive point of view compared with blue, a cooler, rational and more intellectual vantage point.
At any rate, I have been watching the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS again. This is a classic recognized for using universal symbols of good and evil. I hope you all notice Darth Vader and the bad guys use red light sabers while Luke Skywalker uses a blue light saber.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Phone photo 873
The wooden bear on top of McCleary City Hall, carved out with a chain saw 50 years ago. The bear is known by several names, including "Timbear" and "Smiley." I had a chance to see this thing close up in the mid-1990s while promoting a documentary on the McCleary Bear Festival.
I now realize this sculpture no doubt contributed to the creation of the Tulpa minicomic in 1990.
Phone photo 872
A political sign during this election season advocating transparency in government
McCleary, Washington
McCleary, Washington
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Phone photo 865
Just one soldier in the Army of Slugs that occupy my yardThis should be the official mascot for Washington West of the Cascades. Check out the "Sluggy" game on page 12 of Mukey the Mutant Membrane, or the "Jobbo and Bonobo" story in OlyBlog.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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