The Swarling Black Mable, unfolded

For a long time now, I have had dreams and nightmares of black ooze. I have tried to embrace it… somewhat to address the visions and somewhat because, well… it is a neat vision. Perhaps it is some Jungian bit that is easily explainable, or at least a common dream. Either way, I have worked it into my comic The Surplus Bio-Freaks, into my ink work, and, heck, this site, “Swarling...

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Misfit Toy Xmas ‘08

Christmas is not one of my more favorite holidays. Last year I was stuck in a snowy wasteland without cigarettes fending off panic attacts over my tailbone surgery the next day. The year before I was home alone trying to figure out what to do about my truck being stolen then night before. Prior to that, I mostly pretended Christmas was just another day since my family didn’t get together on...

Development Made Possible By Credit Card Debt

Somehow I managed to stumble on to http://www.bluthfamily.com, a site with quotes from the show “Arrested Development”. The site seemed like SEO fodder, but the footer info nailed it “Development Made Possible By Credit Card Debt” with a link to some spammy credit consolidation service. hahahha. I just love that line for any number of...

Tough Times, a day at the ministorage

Today, I had a bit of a realization of how tough the times are. I was helping my brother move the inventory of his patio furniture business into a mini-storage facility off Lake Street today. Four of us and two professional mover guys spent the majority of the day moving hundreds of boxes by hand from the old warehouse in NE Minneapolis to the third floor of the mini-storage in Uptown. I spent...