Miscellany – Page 22 of 31
I write about daily life, creativity, making comics and things of interest. Miscellany is a collection of ideas, stories, art process, illustrations, and the weird stuff I found between the couch cushions.
New sump pump day!
April 9, 2015 | Miscellany
New sump pump day isn’t celebrated far and wide like those fancy holidays, it’s a local holiday, very local, like only-in-my-house local.
Who brought the dog?
March 23, 2015 | Miscellany
The girls have been watching Ghostbusters in 1/2 hour chunks before bedtime for the past few nights and now Spare thinks she’s Louis Tully and that’s okay.
Parenting on snow days
February 2, 2015 | Miscellany
It’s snowing outside, and the buses are cancelled, and you know what that means – a young couple asks for my experience with kids on snow days.
Douglas Adams on perspective
December 24, 2014 | Miscellany
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and[…]
Kurt Vonnegut on profanity
December 11, 2014 | Miscellany
…profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their eyes and ears to you.
General rule
November 19, 2014 | Miscellany
I have this general rule that the thing a company became famous for is the only thing you should buy from them. Nowhere is this more true than kids products.
The world is a lie
November 12, 2014 | Miscellany
Apparently Curious George isn’t a monkey at all, but a chimp. And Hello Kitty isn’t a cat. I need to lie down.
Don Draper and George Carlin on language
October 28, 2014 | Miscellany
I’m not sure what George Carlin would have have thought of Don Draper, but in this instance I think they might be on the same page.
Joseph Heller on paranoia
October 22, 2014 | Miscellany
Watch out behind you it’s Joseph Heller! Haha, just kidding, he’s not behind you, but he did write this great line about paranoia in Catch-22.
Spring flowers art print
October 7, 2014 | Miscellany
Digital art print showing an assortment of colourful spring flowers, labeled unscientifically, and illustratively titled.