Morty Comix # 2505

 

Morty Comix # 2505 was left at what appears to be one of the former ticket windows of the century-old Steilacoom Train Station in Steilacoom, Washington.  These days all the trains just pass the station by.

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Tumwater, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: La Cage Aux Folles

"Let's have a toast for this catastrophe."

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Morty Comix # 2504

 Morty Comix # 2504 is going on a little trip.

 I found my former cell phone

 and suspended it from the ceiling over a folding table

 Then I placed a paper grid divided into 50 squares on the floor near the table

 And here's the exciting action part: I set up wooden pegs and swung the cell phone

 The pegs landed on 22, 30, 33, 34, and 38

 So I made a new display

 reset the pegs, and swung again

 The winner was 38. Colorado, our 38th state!

At this point, rather than prolong the suspense, I just chose the city of Ouray, where my maternal grandfather was born in the late 1800s. I've never been there but I have some documents and old photos from that place. The first Ouray address I found online was a business in the chocolate trade. And so that's where this issue of Morty Comix will go today.

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Buster

Morty Comix # 2503

 

Morty Comix # 2503 is a little guy, a microcomic. It was drawn on the birthday of our 13th president, Millard Fillmore, born Jan. 7, 1800. I tucked it into a loose bit of rubber moulding along the floor in a corner of the Post Office in McCleary, Washington. 

There are no less than five Morty Comix in secret places in the McCleary Post Office as of tonight when I checked my PO Box. A couple of them have been there since Spring.

Although there are parts of the world out there where I still see Morty Comix remaining where I deposited the art months ago, this place has the highest concentration of the little devils. So interesting how many public places have anonymous pockets where no one ever looks.

I used to just post them on the bulletin board there, but then I became aware someone was systematically taking my stuff down, ripping it up, and throwing it in the trash. It's the ripping it up part that intrigues me. Sometimes I think McCleary would've made a great locale for a Roger Corman-Vincent Price film. We have no shortage of weird people. Fortunately, I can prove I am not one of them.

When I was 9 years old our farm house outside of McCleary burned. It didn't burn completely, it was just gutted to an uninhabitable degree. So we lived in a mobile home for 8 glorious years. When I was in college I came back to the farm one summer, in 1975, and took down the burned house to salvage and sell the old growth lumber that built the dwelling in order to earn more $$ for school. I recall finding a dead mouse in a bottle and writing my college mate Lynda Barry about it. The rodent could see freedom but could not attain it. Something like that.

Anyway, in between the 1st and 2nd floors, where the pipes for the gas lights originally ran, I found this wood planer lying on its side. Someone had built over this thing. The blade is still sharp. I have this tool to this day. The last time it was used Woodrow Wilson was still President, I am guessing.

So, maybe someday someone will find a Morty Comix in the same way. A little time capsule art bomb. My challenge will be to find more difficult hiding places in 2013 and to make the distribution method more unusual.

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Creeeepy

Morty Comix # 2502

Morty Comix # 2502 was drawn on a cover of light slushy snow in a parking lot, Tumwater, Washington, Dec. 31, 2012, the very last Morty Comix until the New Year.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Cat Ballou

"I've never seen a man get through a day so fast."

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Morty Comix # 2501

Morty Comix # 2501 was deposited in an empty distribution box for The Stranger on the Westside of Olympia, Washington

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Morty Comix # 2500

Morty Comix # 2500 was left, fittingly enough for this landmark issue, in an empty bin that serves as a distribution point for the Cooper Point Journal, student paper at The Evergreen State College. It was deposited on campus in front of the office of radio station KAOS-FM.

Although this building has been remodeled, I think the CPJ offices were located for a few years in the early 1980s where KAOS is now.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Cadillac Man

"I'm Elvis, that's who I am. I'm back from the dead and I'm pissed."

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