Morty Comix # 2647

Morty Comix # 2647 was placed inside an issue of Portland Outsider and returned to the basket of reading material provided by a restaurant where I had lunch, Portland, Oregon

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Another character trapped in the decaying mural beseeches the viewer for freedom from the Demon Child nearby. His eyes plead, "Help me! Help me!" But of course we can only sadly observe. We are powerless to prevent his doom.

Favorite Movie Quotes: To Be Or Not To Be (1983)

"First you invade Poland, then you invade Warsaw, then you invade my dressing room! You people are compulsive invaders!"

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A very close detail of the Demon Child's mouth. Note the light red smudges, a residue left from when he FEASTED ON HUMAN FLESH!!!!

Morty Comix # 2646

Morty Comix # 2646 was given as an offering to one of the greatest human-made objects in western Washington State, the giant Yardbirds crow in Chehalis! She has a little one under a wing and a splattered egg painted on the pavement beneath her.

When I visited her last year she was still being restored. But look at her now. What a beautiful job!

Anyway, under her front support beams I found a little triangular hole in which to leave my Morty Comix. The designers probably put the opening there as a breathing vent for when the Greeks pile inside and then offer the crow as a gift to the city of Troy.

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The Demon Child of McCleary makes a prediction

The Beatles Sing Bacharach

Baby It's You

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Olympia, Washington

Postcard - Moscow, Idaho

"The Nobby Inn - 'Home of Moscow's finest foods and beverages' - has been located on Main at Fifth since 1936. It is not far from the beautiful University of Idaho Campus, and has taken great pleasure in serving carefully selected foods prepared to please our many friends. Wayne Mayburry, Owner and Manager."

1960s. The Nobby Inn was still in Moscow in the mid-1980s, when I worked just across the border in Pullman. I ate there a few times. It was such a highly loved institution in the Palouse region I was surprised to read they closed up about a decade ago or so.

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This little scene mysteriously materialized in my office at work

Morty Comix # 2645

Morty Comix # 2645 was slid into a ripped area under a chair in a fitting room at the Goodwill in Olympia, Washington. Yes, this is where I buy most of my clothes.

This Morty Comix concludes the "yellow series" of Mortys I drew during my recent visit to Pennsylvania.

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Man, do they have it rough at this house or what?

Postcard - McCall, Idaho

"Main Street, McCall, Idaho. Located on the shore of Beautiful Payette Lake, offering the best in Swimming, Boating, and Picknicking. With Excellent ski Resort nearby."

ca. 1970. Interesting use of capitalization.

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Dreamer and Charlie

Morty Comix # 2644

Morty Comix # 2644 was left in a dead phone booth at a long dead grocery/gas mart in Satsop, Washington, a town in danger of becoming extinct, along with several other villages and municipalities in eastern Grays Harbor County, including my town, McCleary.

A local asked me what I was doing and I said I was recording places soon to be gone. Out here everyone wants to know your family connection, and I told him I was no connection to the well known dairy family around here with the same surname. My Willis family relatives migrated to Grays Harbor and Pacific counties early in the 20th century and many of them engaged in a variety of nefarious activities. I am the sole surnamed Willis left from my branch still living in either county. So I guess I should photograph myself to fit in with the rest of the subjects I capture.

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Falls at Deschutes River with derelict Olympia Brewery.

Tumwater, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: A Thousand Clowns

"I want to be sure he knows when he's chickening out on himself. I want him to get to know the special thing he is or else he won't notice it when it starts to go. I want him to stay awake and know who the phonies are. I want him to know how to holler and put up an argument. I want a little guts to show before I can let him go. I want to be sure he sees all the wild possibilities. I want him to know it's worth all the trouble just to give the world a little goosing once you get the chance. And I want him to know the sneaky, subtle, important reason why he was born a human being and not a chair."

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Deschutes River, Tumwater, Washington

Taking an Important Call

Sarah came by yesterday while I was on the phone and snapped some shots. My call had some sort of problem with the line.

Don't step in the raccoon poop!

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Underbelly of the Art Deco 1936 Pacific Highway Bridge at the Deschutes

Tumwater, Washington

Postcard - Lewiston, Idaho

"Some call it the 'Banana Belt City,' some call it 'Idaho's only seaport.' It has a promising future and an interesting past. Lewis and Clark passed this way in 1805, and returned by here in 1806."

1970s or early 1980s.

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The giant peace sign over the defunct Olympia Brewing bottling plant reflected in the Deschutes River, Tumwater, Washington

The Herbert Hoover Song

When I was just a lad, in 1964

My Mom looked at the TV set

And recoiled in total horror.

A crabby looking pumpkin face

Had filled the TV set

"Oh my God, it's Herbert Hoover!

And he's not dead yet!"

Mr. Hoover was a wonder boy

And humanitarian

But he couldn't wrap his brain 

Around the mess that he was in.

In 1932 he was kicked out on his tush

And his name equated "failure"

Until that slot was filled

By George W. Bush