Life
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.

Snack attack – inking completed
December 28, 2024 | Miscellany
There are many things that can keep me from completing any personal project I start. Chores. Family obligations. Reddit. I finish, it just takes forever.

Dream
December 11, 2024 | Miscellany
This morning I saw the word “dream” on the side of a construction crane. I wasn’t not sure if it was a call to action, or a warning. Turns out it was just branding – so maybe a little of both.

Office intrigue
September 30, 2024 | Miscellany
I was bored and thirsty. Mug in hand I left my cubicle and pushed open the door to the hallway, interrupting two men having a very quiet, very private conversation. They stood suspiciously in front of elevator H. Were they going somewhere? Was that a good place to share secrets? There’s a janitor closet over […]

In the beginning
August 20, 2024 | Miscellany
In the beginning there was nothing. Then there was something. Then more something. Etc. And nowit’s justreally reallycrowded.

Maybe it’s somebody else’s frequency illusion
June 18, 2024 | Miscellany
The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) is a cognitive bias in which a person notices a specific concept, word, or product more frequently after recently becoming aware of it. Wikipedia We aren’t looking for a new car right now, but this always happens when we are looking for a new car. Also, I had a […]

Charles Bukowski on work
May 19, 2024 | Miscellany
We work too hard. We try too hard. Don’t try. Don’t work. It’s there. Looking right at us, aching to kick out of the closed womb. Charles Bukowski in a letter to friend William Packard See also: Do. Or do not. There is no try. Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back

Steve Martin on success
April 6, 2024 | Miscellany
Nobody ever takes note of it because it’s not the answer they want to hear. What they want to hear is “Here’s how you get an agent…” or “Here’s how to write a script…”. But I always say “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” If somebody is thinking “How can I be really good?” […]

Floating
March 17, 2024 | Miscellany
The past couple weeks have been a blur of prioritizing other people over myself, and I’m exhausted. Of course this happens all the time as an adult, a parent, a husband, an employee. You strive for balance. It hasn’t felt very balanced. It was made worse of course by my complete failure to organize the […]

Drawing, writing, drawing writing
March 2, 2024 | Miscellany
Lately I’ve been oscillating between writing a new comic story, experimenting with watercolour, and drawing an adventurous space frog. This is a sketch in Procreate, I’ll ink and colour it later. I’ve taken a break from drawing this frog to work on some title text for it in Affinity Designer. The comic writing is coming […]

Chew chew chew
February 11, 2024 | Miscellany
I was sick this week. Some mild flu I guess, nausea, muscle aches, chills. It wasn’t bad enough to keep me in bed, but I didn’t have enough energy to do anything. So I just sat around being bored and feeling like crap for 3 days. Then I slipped on some ice and hurt my […]