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Blog posts about life, art, and everything.

Charles Bukowski on work

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

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Steve Martin on success

Steve Martin on success

April 6, 2024 | Miscellany

If you are looking to take advice on success, you’d be in good hands to take that advice from Steve Martin, I think.

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Robot is stranded on a floating rock.

Floating

March 17, 2024 | Miscellany

Exhaustion, a minor pity party, and a brief divergence into the importance random experiences have on the creative process.

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Digital sketch of a cartoon frog in a space suit holding a laser gun.

Drawing, writing, drawing writing

March 2, 2024 | Miscellany

A work in progress digital sketch of some kind of adventurous space frog fellow, and an update on current comic script writing.

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Crow chewing gum and blowing a big bubble.

Chew chew chew

February 11, 2024 | Miscellany

An ink and watercolour sketch of a crow blowing a bubble gum bubble, and a wee update on life, family, and reading.

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Francis the sheep sitting on a rock enjoying a sandwich.

Enjoy a break now and then

February 3, 2024 | Miscellany

An ink and watercolour drawing of Francis the sheep enjoying a sandwich and some fresh air, plus a totally untrue discarded Radiohead lyric.

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Kurt Vonnegut on authenticity

Kurt Vonnegut on authenticity

February 1, 2024 | Miscellany

I love me some Kurt Vonnegut, and he wrote this bit about authenticity in his book Mother Night. It’s timely, and I’m overdue for a reread.

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Oscar Wilde on imitation

Oscar Wilde on imitation

January 12, 2024 | Miscellany

I hadn’t read the entirety of this Oscar Wilde quote before. I feel like the last bit, which is always omitted, is kind of contextually important.

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Goldfish in a bowl atop a small tower of rocks

Fish atop a tower of rocks

December 3, 2023 | Miscellany

Still digging through some old doodles.

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Robot wearing a Napoleon style hat

Robot with a Napoleon complex

November 5, 2023 | Miscellany

It’s not that robot thinks he’s better than you. He doesn’t think about you at all.

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