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Legislative Building

Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2403

 Morty Comix # 2403 had three images drawn on letter size paper in landscape mode.

In order to find a city to send this to, a roll of the dice resulted in 10. According to the last U.S. Census, the 10th largest city in our nation is San Jose, California.

In order to determine the street, I once again rolled the dice, and once again resulted in 10. According to the National League of Cities, the 10th most popular street name in America is 7th Street. 

Then I rolled three more numbers for the house address, verified online that such an address actually exists, folded and placed the Morty Comix in an envelope with address, return address, and stamp to "Occupant."

 Then, while in Hoodsport, I mailed it off.

The end.

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Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2402

Morty Comix # 2402 was drawn on legal size tissue parchment, folded, and placed in a freebie area of a cafe in Hoodsport, Washington

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Redwood named after Dan Evans in Centennial Park, Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2401

The idea for Morty Comix # 2401 came to me in a meeting at work. I quickly jotted down the basic concept while pretending to look serious and intelligent.

So then I came home and drew six faces. The next stop was my little photocopier.

But guess what? I hadn't used my photocopier since Mini-Comics Day last may 26th. So when I opened the lid for scanning I found the original art for The Floating Head of Humptulips, a jam by Frank Young, Paul Tumey, Jim Gill and myself was still in there! A cartoon bomb for me for a change!

So I took that art and it became the first item in a box of material I'll be sending to the Washington State University Comix Collection when it fills up. I just sent WSU a big box of comix and related material earlier this month.

The box, by the way, was originally sent to me by Michael Dowers, one of several filled with copies of Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s.

That hideous and frightening doll hanging above the box was given to me by my daughter many years ago as a joke. It is part of my Bulletin Board project.

 Then, for good measure, I tossed my original draft drawing for Morty Comix # 2401 as well.

Well, my my, we certainly got sidetracked, didn't we? So, back to the six faces:

I ran the images through my photocopier, and reduced them in size, on astrobright pink paper. Maybe about 15 copies. Then I cut them into little squares.

All the little squares were then placed inside a styrofoam cup. The cup itself was titled, numbered and dated.

 The original art, which was ballpoint on graph paper, was burned in my woodstove.

The next day, which is today, I visited a Timberland Library branch north of here and found a great place to leave Morty Comix # 2401 as sort of a cartoon bomb ...

 ... right under a dictionary stand.

And so I bid farewell to another Morty Comix left out in the world all on its own to face an uncertain fate.

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Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Shadow

"The clouded mind sees nothing."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Righteous Kill

"Our job is keeping 99% of the population safe from the other 1%. The problem is that we have to spend half our lives with that 1%, and the better we do that job the less the other 99 think they need us, because they're clueless. The only ones paying attention on the street are the cops and the criminals. Everyone else is just going somewhere or shopping."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Red Rock West

"It's all about money."

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Two raccoons attempt to hitch a ride

Five Mile Drive

Tacoma, Washington

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Tacoma Lemurs

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Petrified Forest

"The trouble with me, Gabrielle, is I, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 5]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Network

"Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th, and this is my last broadcast. Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide, admittedly an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened, I just ran out of bullshit. Am I still on the air? I really don't know any other way to say it other than I just ran out of bullshit. Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living. And if we can't think up any reasons of our own, we always have the God bullshit. We don't know why we're going through all this pointless pain, humiliation, decays, so there better be someone somewhere who does know. That's the God bullshit. And then, there's the noble man bullshit-- that man is a noble creature that can order his own world,  who needs God? Well, if there's anybody out there that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me, that man is full of bullshit. I don't have anything going for me. I haven't got any kids. And I was married for thirty-three years of shrill, shrieking fraud. So I don't have any bullshit left. I just ran out of it, you see."

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Tacoma Shark

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Music Man

"Oh, my dear little librarian. You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering."

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Tacoma Elephants

Favorite Movie Quotes: Matilda

Matilda's Dad: "To read? Why would you want to read when you got the television set sitting right in front of you? There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster."

This is another great movie where the librarian has a pivotal and positive role.

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Tacoma Elephant

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Maltese Falcon

"Look what you did to my shirt."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 67]

The Yard Birds Crow piggy bank was the closest prop I had for this film.

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Steps to Centennial Park, Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

"The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen,  heh-heh, caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife. Hee-hee. He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in. I didn't give him much of a chance. There were other complications. Hnh-hnh. The man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grippe. Heh. I decided to operate."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 47]