Morty Comix # 2489

Morty Comix # 2489 was left on a metal beam supporting a landing in a stairwell for a parking garage in Tumwater, Washington.

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Montesano, Washington

Buttons - Commercial - 2005

Swantown Marina & Boatworks

[Olympia, Washington]

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Buttons - Public Service - 1990s?

Special Bus to Shuttle Just Us

IT

Capitol Shuttle

[Olympia, Washington. Notice how the Legislative Building is part of the design. The IT is an acronym for Intercity Transit]

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McCleary, Washington

Morty Comix # 2488

We had our family holiday gift exchange a couple days before Christmas. Susan gave me a potato gun with two spuds to use as ammo.

It does NOT shoot up to 50 feet, as we shall see. However, I am looking forward to years of service. We'll get back to this gift in a bit, but let's move on to ...

... a somewhat revolting present from Bryan and Zach. These dismembered plastic monkey parts are in a bag. And as if that wasn't creepy enough, the monkey's eyes on the severed monkey head BLINK!
 

Stay with me now. All will be be revealed by the end. I made a grid with 50 little squares on a sheet of cardboard.

Then I arranged the disgusting monkey parts on a TV tray. 

The grid was placed under and behind the tray.

I shot several potato pellets at the monkey parts, which were precariously balanced at the edge of the tray. Although the little spud bullets hit the targets, they lack the required velocity to knock them to the floor. So when the label declared "Shoots Harmless Potato Pellets," they meant it.

So it was time to haul out a more advanced technology to achieve my goal. I went to the toybox and extracted the gyroscope.

 You can tell the monkey's expression is politely apprehensive at this juncture.

 I let the gyroscope rip

It did not fail me as it knocked over two revolting monkey parts. A foot landed on numbers 27, 28, and 32.

 

Now it was time for the next phase, but I knew the potato gun would not be able to do the job. Mr. Spud himself told me this was all a half-baked idea anyway, and he took his leave. But I thanked him for helping me with the initial parts of this project.

  

So I made a much simpler grid, narrowing the field to three.

And this time I brought out the heavy artillery,  foam darts!

 

It took a few tries, but in less than 3 minutes I knocked a repulsive monkey hand into the grid. It landed on number 32.
 

32. That means Minnesota, the 32nd state, admitted to the Union in 1858. I've been over Minnesota in a passenger airline but have never set foot there, but hopefully someday I'll be able to pay a visit.

None of my ancestors parked there on their way West in the pioneer era (but a few were next door in Wisconsin in the 1850s-1860s).

Minnesota has a great tradition of creative comic art, was one of the hotspots in the Newave era, and today remains a prominent place for our brand of comix. Meeting Matt Feazell at SPACE 2011 was a real honor and even though he now lives in Michigan, I nominate him for Minnesota's Cartoonist Laureate for his amazing past contributions.

 Anyway, I rolled the dice the for the next step. As you can see, the number was 7. That's lucky!

And the 7th largest city in Minnesota is Plymouth. I consulted a map of that city and decided to just pick a street name I liked, and Cheshire was my choice. A co-worker calls me the Cheshire Cat and I admire that character.

So I randomly selected an address on that street, which turns out to be home to a business enterprise. I'm mailing it tomorrow morning. This issue of Morty Comix will probably be tossed in the trash or recycling, but I hope you readers enjoyed the narrative. Actually, in many ways, these blogposts are the real Morty Comix, the hardcopy product is residue.

Obscuro comix in action!

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Fremont neighborhood, Seattle, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: True Grit (1969)

Rooster Cogburn turns out to be a cat lover:

"Oh, General Price don't belong to me. Cats don't belong to nobody. He just rooms with me. 'Course I depend on him."

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Tumwater, Washington

Buttons - Public Service - 21st Century

The Seal of the State of Washington 1889

5

[5 year service pin]

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Tumwater, Washington

Buttons - Public Service - 1990s?

Washington State Department of Health

Helping Washingtonians Live Healthier Lives!

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Tumwater, Washington

Buttons - Public Services - 1986

Washington State Ferries, 35 Years

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Favorite Movie Quotes: They Were Expendable

"Listen sister, I don't dance!"

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Buster, the Heat Hog

Buttons - Places - 1980s?

Washington Washington

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen WA

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Sharon Cemetery entrance

Near Porter, Grays Harbor County, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Sudden Impact

"Ah, it's a question of methods. Everybody wants results but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done."

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Elma, Washington

Buttons - Places - 1980s?

The Seal of the State of Washington 1889

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Bird crap on the windshield has a certain beauty at some point of view.

Nadine was displeased.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Wagons East

 

"Square the wagons!"

Screw the critics. I liked this film. It was original. It was humanist. And it is funny. John Candy (1950-1994) was a true North American actor. He was born in Ontario, became famous in the U.S., and died in Mexico while making this film.

He was wonderful in SCTV. I hope in Heaven you finally got your crane shot, Johnny LaRue. We still miss you. 

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Life is so complicated for the residents of Steve's Acres of Cats.

Buttons - Places - 1990s?

Idaho (R)

On reverse of this plastic button: 23, Stoffel 10960

I didn't know the word "Idaho" was a registered trademark word. Did you hear about the Idaho State Legislature? They are divided between the Potato Party and the Horse Party, always cancelling each out with eye votes and neigh votes.