Strange Critique

Perhaps on some dark day (possibly a prelude to doomsday), this may be a real situation...

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Pics from the Ravenswood neighborhood, Saturday 5/30/09

Titanium Cranium

See, in the future, instead of just tombstones, those with the financial means will have titanium sculptures of their heads blasted into orbit to eternally glare down upon the peasants.

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Hey, 360 posts -- have I come full circle? Anyway, I guess I must have had more than one post on some days, seeing I've completed 51 weeks of posting "daily" -- so if I managed one post for each day, there would have been 357; I guess I don't know what I'm doing!

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Pics from Friday 5/29/09

Signs of the Times

I've noticed more people out on the street downtown with grimy cardboard signs proclaiming their loss of employment etc. Perhaps there is a business opportunity for sign makers out there: PROFESSIONAL "will work for food" signs. Maybe that could be part of a company's severance package: flashy attention-getting and weather resistant pan-handling signs. As the economy spirals into the abyss, this can be a growth industry!

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Pics from Urbana, August 2008

Dull Idea

No, this isn't the energy efficient version of "I've got a bright idea!" -- This is Cyril Fingarden wondering that now that the typical "lightbulb" will probably be these twisted florecent tubes, people may stop calling him "Lightbulb Head"; which he always prefered to Q-Ball and Ping-Pong Pate.

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Hercules the Dog on Tuesday

Around Downtown

Geek Story

A doodle.

Here we have young Billy Wojtan, circa 1975. He's stayed up till 3 am on a school night so he could watch Dracula on his 14 in B&W TV. As usual, he will fall asleep in class, and pretty much fail as a student, and socially as well -- But not to worry! You see, Billy's love of old movies will eventually take him to Hollywood, where he will become a rich & famous director of modern horror and SciFi flicks! --- Ha, ha -- just kidding about that last part! No, Billy is going to pretty much be a failure in life. He'll get a job at a Mom & Pop video rental shop in the 80s, but that place will be put out of business by Blockbuster; he'll then get himself a job as a night watchman at the Gerber Baby Food factory, and as time goes by he'll grow a paunch and lose his hair, thus earning him the nickname of "The Gerber Baby Gone Bad". Well, that's something, I guess...

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Pics from this week

"step into my office..."

Beat of Mandness

Just a rough sketch here -- but I see Major Motion Picture!

What do you do when a Beat Paradise becomes a Symphony of Madness with a Hipster Man-Monster blowing a solo of Terror on his Sax of Murder? -- Call General Custer!!

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Pics from Monday 5/25/09

Flower Power Tower

Just a quick cartoon I call:

The Scariest Day of 1969

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Pics from late 2007

Electric Legend

Did You Know? Dept.

Did you know that "Zooft!" (meaning: Whoa, Dude! It's Over!!) was a popular catch-phrase for a short period of time during the early 1970s? It came about when teeny-bopper heart throb Will Krispy, in what was inteneded as a very special episode of the sitcom Those Flanagans! (where he played Tina's boyfriend, Brad), stepped onto a malfunctioning lighted dancefloor, and was electrocuted, accompanied by a very audible "Zooft!" sound. Aside from "Zooft!" jokes involving "...fried to a Krisp" were also quite popular among the insensitive of the time.

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Some random pics from 2007