Thursday, January 30, 2014

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Steve Tyrell and Patti Austin Sing Bacharach

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Hey, you draw cartoons, you can letter!

And so that's how I got roped into the pencils for this "Go Hawks!" sign for the Seattle Seahawks fans at my workplace. I don't even like football but I do like the way the Superbowl is cheering up my fellow residents of perpetual overcast in the dead of winter here. Sort of ironic this is my most recent piece of public art!

Isn't it interesting that the two teams at the Superbowl are from the only two states that legalized marijuana? Why is no one mentioning that? Curious.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Morty Comix # 2690













Morty Comix # 2690 was left in a spot that is somewhat significant in the history of comic art. The College Activities Building (CAB) on the campus of The Evergreen State College was home to the campus newspaper, The Cooper Point Journal, during the era when staff included cartoonists Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Jim Chupa, Flicky Ford, T.J. Simpson, and yours truly, among others.

The exact location of the 1970s CPJ office has since been part of a giant remake. The present area is filled with offices for student organizations. Even the outside looks different, including some kind of extension with wood panel siding.

I left Morty Comix # 2690 behind a decorative wall panel, which back in the 1970s would've been on the left hand of the entrance to the CPJ offices.

Swinging Blue Jeans Sing Bacharach

Favorite Movie Quotes: Trading Places


"Just be yourself, sir. Whatever happens they can't take that away from you."

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Favorite Movie Quotes: Sherlock

"Professor Moriarty. Last known address: The London sewer system."

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For Rent, Montesano, Washington

I sure hope they are not expecting a huge rental fee for that vehicle

Morty Comix # 2689








Morty Comix # 2689 was slid behind a sign at the McCleary, Washington Post Office. There are currently no less than 4 Morty Comix hidden in this place at present. All of them are within the borders of the 2nd photo of the Post Office. Morty's P.O. Box is 2nd from the bottom on the righthand border of the 3rd photo of the Post Office.

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A homemade Seahawk pen made by a local fan

This is getting rrrrrreally strange

Neil Diamond Sings Bacharach

Saturday, January 25, 2014

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Helium-filled Seahawk fever displayed next to the liquor section at a grocery store
Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Mar adentro = The Sea Inside


"Why does the Church cling so passionately to the position of fearing death? Because they know they lose a great deal of customers if people are no longer afraid of the Other Side."

The Overtones Sing Bacharach

Friday, January 24, 2014

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Jewel of the Nile

"Don't be ridiculous! Jack would never die without telling me"

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The Fetid Lake of Doom remains closed. And we know the real reason why.

This Shall Remain Cryptic


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Olympia, Washington

Judita Čeřovská Sings Bacharach

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Buster and Charlie, Mentor and Student

No Cannibalism

"Ah, hello. Well first of all I'd like to apologize for the behaviour of certain of my colleagues you may have seen earlier, but they are from broken homes, circus families and so on and they are in no way representative of the new modern improved British Navy. They are a small vociferous minority; and may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new ratings are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find any toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up."
--Graham Chapman, Monty Python

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Baby shoes, a Yardbirds crow, a giant jar of Marmite.

I think there's a lesson here for everyone.

Petula Clark Sings Bacharach

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About half a century ago I made this plaster car as part of a school project. I think we were supposed to create what we thought cars of the future would look like. Well, here I am in the future but I don't see any of these on the road-- yet.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

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Even in elevators it is impossible to escape the Seahawk frenzy around here. It is fun to see people get so excited about something. And I am not a football fan.

Wouldn't it be great if we could see this same kind of intense united energy around something like eliminating homelessness, funding public education, providing better institutional care for the forgotten developmentally disabled, seniors, mentally ill, and other marginalized populations?

That'll be the day.



Burt Bacharach Plays Bacharach

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Unidentified

Unidentified.

The final photo in the McDowell Family Album is also the only tintype in the group.