Morty Comix # 2487

Morty Comix # 2487 was tucked under the cushion of a chair/stool at a McDonald's in Tumwater, Washington very early in the morning.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Suicide Kings

"That gun is officially bumming me out."

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Charlie and Dreamer

Buttons - Places - 1996

Virginia City

[Nevada]

On reverse: (c) RTSI 1996, Made in China

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Gordon's Grocery parking lot, McCleary, Washington

A nice way to personalize a blah asphalt area, and it is very McCleary.

[This is post # 4000 in Morty the Blog, and somehow seems fitting] 

Morty Comix # 2486

Morty Comix # 2486 was placed on top of the employee lockers in a Subway sandwich shop in Montesano, Washington. I notice that clock in the last photo is way off track. By 4:30 this time of year we are in the dark.

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Buttons - Places - 1980s?

Corn Palace, Mitchell, S.D.

I've never been there, but I have a button!

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Legislative Building

Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2485

Morty Comix # 2485 was left as a bookmark in a tome that is part of the Law Library collection, Grays Harbor County Courthouse, Montesano, Washington

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Buttons - Places - 1980s?

Northumberland County [Virginia]

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Columbia Room, Legislative Building, Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2484

Morty Comix # 2484 was slid onto a high windowsill at the McCleary Post Office. There are now three Morty Comix hiding in this facility, the first two have been there for months.

This issue begins a subseries where I am trying out a new pen that seems to have an impact on the final drawing. The ink stays wet, which is not good for us left-handers, so my method of drawing has changed. We old dogs can learn new tricks. 

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Rear entrance to the Legislative Building, Olympia, Washington. I recall seeing a space capsule, maybe John Glenn's, on display here in the early 1960s.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Spies Like Us

In response to Soviet interrogation: "Why am I here? Why are you here? Why is anybody here? I think it was Jean-Paul Sartre who once said-- how do you spell Sartre?"

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Broken and entered

Tumwater, Washington

Buttons - Places - 1973

Natural Bridge, VA

I picked up this button when I visited Natural Bridge in 1973.

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University of Washington

Morty Comix # 2483

It was getting really cold, wet, and dark. So Ron, Louise and I raced to film this distribution of Morty Comix # 2483 for the Bezango WA documentary before we all froze to death. The target was the display of the ancient horse-drawn fire engine and the second oldest locomotive in Washington exhibited in McCleary's Beerbower Park. In recent years, this park attraction has been enhanced during the holiday season by festive lights.

Here's a phone photo I took last year of the same site at night. It has a sense of fun and I like it.

So I managed to slip Morty Comix # 2483 into a crack of one of the supporting logs holding up the roof. It used to be this display was out in the open, but sometime in the late 1980s/early 1990s this chain link cage was constructed to protect the relics.  Ron and Louise filmed the whole episode.

After this freezing event we returned to the warm and comfy confines of Steve's Acres of Cats. Ron and Louise conducted another interview with me. Well I hope you come and see me in the movies, then I’ll know that you will plainly see the biggest fool that ever hit the big time, and all I gotta do is act naturally.

It looks like Ron and Louise and I will have at least one more caper in the very near future before their filming is complete.

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University of Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Sink or Swim

"So, you're not a Hippy. You're Harry Lime."

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Husky mascot statue

University of Washington 

I'm an alum (MLS, '82)

Buttons - Places - 1980s?

Commonwealth of Virginia

This button most likely came from my Dad, who spent most of his childhood in Clintwood, Virginia, in Dickenson County, and probably brought this back during one of his visits to the Old Country. I'm puzzled by the "CP" in the middle of the button. Any Virginians out there care to answer what that means?

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Artic, Washington