Miscellany – Page 25 of 30

Making comics, creating zines, and daily life – Miscellany is odds and ends, curiosities, and the stuff between the couch cushions.

Public school gulag

Public school gulag

January 30, 2013 | Miscellany

True story. While signing Kid A up for school today, a girl walks into the office and asks the admin for the key to the dungeon. I like this place.

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Senior cat box

Senior cat box

January 29, 2013 | Miscellany

The old cat needed some help in the litter box department, so I manufactured her a senior cat box out of a large Rubbermaid storage bin.

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Memo from management re: end of world

Memo from management re: end of world

December 21, 2012 | Miscellany

In case you missed it, here is the memo from management regarding our most recent and highly successful Apocalypse. Good job everyone!

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Wet foot

Wet foot

November 19, 2012 | Miscellany

Kid A and I transplanted 4 birch saplings on the weekend. During which, I did that thing to my back that makes me mildly grumbly whenever I use it.

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Tom Waits on responsibility, maybe?

Tom Waits on responsibility, maybe?

November 13, 2012 | Miscellany

I have no authority to give advice on accountability or moral obligation, but we could do far worse than listening to Tom Waits.

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The problem with computers

The problem with computers

October 3, 2012 | Miscellany

The problem with computers is the lack of ferrules and Siberian weasel hair. If I have to tell you what these things are, you might be a computer.

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John Cleese on creativity

John Cleese on creativity

September 25, 2012 | Miscellany

John Cleese has some brilliant thoughts on creativity, including this gem: Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

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Cat of a different level

Cat of a different level

September 4, 2012 | Miscellany

I take back everything I’ve ever said about this cat. She’s clearly working on an entirely different level of rodent eradication.

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Breaker labels

Breaker labels

August 31, 2012 | Miscellany

A few days ago I traipsed around the house with a table lamp searching for the outlet end of a breaker labeled freezer. This is that story.

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Roger Sterling gives drinking advice

Roger Sterling gives drinking advice

August 29, 2012 | Miscellany

You don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it’s good, because it feels better than […]

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