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Everywhere I look, there is a cat

"Everywhere I look, there is a cat" is a saying I have found myself repeating in this house of four cats. They hate when I am alone in a room and it is almost like they rotate the role of "who will monitor Mr. Foodgiving Man now?"

And sometimes out of the corner of my eye, I see what I think is a cat but it turns to be something else, like the 25 year old cactus over the kitchen sink.

 Or the coffee maker

 A pair of rubber boots

A chainsaw carved bear with a welcome sign which I have moved to the back yard. I was afraid when I had it out front people might think I really meant it.

 A toy monkey that somehow moves around this house on its own

 Fancy couch pillows

Everywhere I look, there is a cat.

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Tumwater, Washington

Morty Comix # 2573

Morty Comix # 2573 was placed in the rafters of a picnic shed in a historic park at the southernmost tip of Puget Sound, Tumwater, Washington

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Make sure your hot food cools off a bit before using plastic silverware

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"Seattle, Washington. Bisected by Interstate 5 (foreground), Seattle is the Gateway to Alaska and the Orient. The new modern skyscrapers characterize the growth in 'The Queen City.' The famous Smith Tower is on the extreme left and the black building in the center is the Seattle First Bank Building."

1970s.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: A Tale of Two Cities

"Must it end in nothing?"

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That haze is the smoke billowing out of the microwave as I used the home fire alarm as my cooking timer. The Weber Cooks guy is a gourmet compared to me, I'm afraid. My kitchen smelled like a cremated chicken strip for about a week.

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"Seattle, Washington, looking north towards the downtown business district with Interstate 5 in the foreground."

In 1980, which was about the time I acquired this card, I worked right about dead center in this photo at Seattle Public Library. What a great city.

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The Fabs

Morty Comix # 2572

I was going to place Morty Comix # 2572 in a bus stop on Capitol Blvd. in Tumwater, Washington, but I saw this little "YHWH is the devil! Only CHRIST is God!" sign in there. Whatever. I sure didn't want to share space with it. So, I left this issue of Morty Comix in another bus stop, on the (considering the circumstances) ironically named Israel Rd.

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The Fabs

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"King County Domed Stadium. Seattle's multi-purpose stadium, the Kingdome, has a maximum seating capacity of 80,000. The Stadium houses major sporting and entertainment events, and conventions. In the background are Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains."

2nd half of the 1970s. The Kingdome was blowed up real good in 2000. YeeHaw!

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The shopping trip at the grocery store where only blue items were purchased.

Morty Comix # 2571

Morty Comix # 2571 was left wedged between a chair and side table at a lobby in a state government building, Tumwater, Washington.

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Washington State cutting board

Does Gilbert Shelton Have a Legal Case Here?

As I mentioned a few months ago, I hope Gilbert Shelton is getting some kind of commission from the catnip company Ducky World for the blatant use of his Fat Freddy's Cat character. And maybe he is, but I sure don't see Shelton's name anywhere on this container.

If Shelton is getting screwed over here, I can empathize.

Any attorneys who want to play David to Goliath (pro bono, of course, we cartooning librarians are not living in poverty, but we can see it from here) are welcome to contact me about Disney's use of my Floating Baby Head character. I think I have a good case. My character appeared in a nationally distributed comic book long before it later turned up in Phineas and Ferb.

Corporate America had no problem going after the underground cartoonists for copyright violations, but seems perfectly at ease lifting the creative efforts of underground/Newave artists for their own profit.

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Power Team

Keep [LOOK AT ME! LOOK At ME!] Weird

The "Keep [Blank] Weird" trend supposedly started in Austin, but has spread like eczema across the cultural epidermis. So sad.

Maybe it was original the first time it was used, but now it is hardly unique or creative.

To me the whole idea of weirdness is that the subject in question is out of touch with common reality and somewhat unaware of their own weirdness. Rotary Club meetings are weird. Most of the small towns in southwest Washington State are weird. The Tea Party is weird. Cats are weird. People who wear bicycle helmets indoors are weird. Silverware is weird.

Actually most of life is weird. But among the things that are not weird are cities, or entire states, that jump up and down and shout "Look at us! We're weird!" That's not weird, that's just marketing, which is pretty mundane. Since my motto is "Drabness is Goodness," I can hardly complain about this "Keep ... Weird" ad campaign, so I'll embrace the paradox as part of normal pop culture.