Monthly Archives: June 2005

Well, that was unsettling. I was in the bookstore, having just picked up a copy of Catie Murphy’s book “Urban Shaman” and thinking “Hey, I should get this–” when one of my fingertips felt weird. My first thought was that there was a bit of plastic or something covering the tip, since it was still […]

To the list of interesting meats I have eaten, we can now add “wild boar.” It’s basically gamy pork. In bratwurst form, the gaminess wasn’t too objectionable, but not something I’d actively seek out again–there was a definite cloying spiciness that you don’t get with regular piggies. Still, I ate it mostly for the experience. […]

A quesadilla can be a tricky thing to eat at the best of times. When it is a full folded tortilla, not conveniently cut into sections, when you are armed only with a fork that will not pierce the tough tortilla carapace, when the cheese is so hot and runny that tearing it apart with […]

This morning, I wandered idily over to the door, coffee in hand, and gazed out at the happy squirrel. The…very…happy squirrel…. He wasn’t doing anything. He wasn’t in pursuit of another squirrel. He was just sitting there, looking somewhat smug, hey, is that an acorn in your pocket or…yeah. Freaks, the lot of ’em. Oh, […]

Went bowling last night for the first time since…err…high school, when I took a bowling class to get out of P.E. If it wasn’t for the bowling leagues full of elderly men, I’d say I’m too old for bowling–four games, and my back aches, and my inner elbow is stretched and abused. I am woefully […]

I was surprised and touched to see that “Digger” got nominated in three categories over at the Webcartoonists Choice Awards–outstanding black and white art, outstanding anthromorphic, and outstanding fantasy. I have no real hope of winning any of these–maybe anthromorphic, although Dinosaur Comics is probably gonna take it, and it’d be a stretch anyway–but of […]

Random moment with armadillo: http://www.deviantart.com/view/19072213/ It’s random, all right. I dunno–it still feels like a study, rather than an actual painting. Possibly I am just not cut out to do landscapes or something. Whenever I do anything like that…I dunno. It feels like I haven’t done enough work to justify having a painting at the […]