The more I learn about history, the more likely I am to urge society to throw out all existing leadership and replace them with kindergarten and primary school teachers. Give them dictatorial powers, like enforcing naptime, snack-distribution rights and access to a vast, well-equipped cadre of […]

Seen online: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly, great call from the haters on this one."

My version of a Hasui Kawase woodblock print. I’ll post the original in a sec, it’s amazing.

A copy of a photo of a ceramic tile by an artist I follow, Nagihan Seymour.

I saw this amazing photo from @wabisabimind the other day, and like a maniac I wanted to draw it. This is about half done, but I dunno if I’ll keep working on it more. I learned a lot from what I did so far, but it’s kind of disorienting. 😄 https://mastodon.social/@wabisabimind/116554236499666666

I’ve nearly made my quota of one drawing per month for the whole year. So the lazy part of me wants to throw in the towel for 2026 but the go-getter part of me wants to keep going. Which wolf will triumph? Anyway, here’s today’s drawing. Herge probably did this […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Busy art day for me, here’s another little thing, based on an artist from Instagram called sunny day designs.

I drew a friend’s video game character for his birthday. Not sure what the game is. Minecraft? No idea. Never seen or played it. Huge question mark for me, all my interests are mature and sophisticated.

I took a short nap on our early morning flight, and when I asked kid2 if she had - she said no. But she did manage, she said, to live her dream of showing the flight attendant this saved pic/meme on her phone as they went by offering snacks. (Yes, flight […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

I could never take Gary Cooper seriously after he wore this ridiculous tie in Mr Deeds Goes to Town.

Fuckin Amazon won’t give me a Subscribe ‘n’ Save offer on fanny packs.

Get in on the ground floor of the new Winkles! #colorinnovation

I'm always trying to get people to watch a cool little low-budget indie sci-fi movie called Prospect! (It's got Pedro Pascal in it before he was big! And he's amazing in it!) Today I found this rad-as-hell screen shot from the movie.

If you’re having a rough day, imagine how much worse you’d feel if you’d spent the last ten years furious about whether Pluto is a planet or ethics in game journalism!

It's not friday, so here's a #followthursday tribute to @Gogs, who maintains a high LOLIRL:wtf ratio

Today’s drawing is just a sketch, fooling around with ways to draw a tree without it taking forever. Too bad! This still took forever. But it was fun and educational, and gave me something to think about while we wait for utter calamity to befall us all.

Today's drawing is a gigantic stone Olmec head!

Here's my drawing of an evening gown, made in ~1910 by Paul Poiret for Queen Maud of Norway. There's only one photo online of this, and it doesn't have a citation so I don't know which museum you could go to to see it in person. A pity! (This is progress towards […] [Original post on ohai.social]

I imagine God as a crusty old farmer, throwing down his hoe in disgust and yelling "DAD BLAM IT!!" as he fixes to send his son back down to Earth to die again because of all the sins you committed last weekend.

If Trump ineptly fakes his own death, we gotta just smile and nod and pretend like it’s completely convincing.

A government of the jackwads by the jackwads and for the jackwads might actually perish from the earth.

I’m glad Jeremy Renner has recovered, but I think we can all look back wistfully on an era where we assumed moviegoers would be shielded from ever seeing him on screen again. As if these times weren’t dark enough, apparently he’s dusted off the old “fence post that can mysteriously read aloud […]

Went to pick up my date, stepping gingerly over the corpse of the guy who’d walked a thousand miles to fall down at her door.

As far as I know, you committed no sin deserving of having to read haikus I wrote in my 20s. The universe is unfair and uncaring, and I’m sorry you had to see that.

Haiku Like a doting aunt Hefty cop bends down smiling A crimson baton

Haiku Glimpse into the woods Circus clowns hold fire aloft Leave those clowns alone!

Why should kids study the classics, I hear you say. Well, in 1983 when albums by seminal Swedish death metal band Bathory started to circulate, kids were too illiterate to understand the font and thought the band's name was BATLORD. Those were dark times, and […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Today's drawing is based on one by Edmund Dulac from Pushkin's The Golden Cockerel. I can't ever stop praising Pete Beard's amazing YouTube channel where he highlights mostly-forgotten illustrators of the past.

I drew a little something again this month, based on an old travel poster by Tom Purvis.

I can’t say they’re wuthering, per se, but I concede that these heights may once have wuthered.

Here’s a catchy pretty little tune for your morning or afternoon or whatever. https://youtu.be/Hn73xd-SCK8

My PR team will host a press conference this afternoon and have a full statement prepared; for the moment I can confirm that Faith is my favorite album by The Cure, but only if all of Carnage Visors is included.

In response to your query, I *do* have a few quibbles with the French Revolution. However, it's not without its piquancies.

I just typed "it will accellerating your endumbening" to a friend, and I was too soused for any alarm to sound in my grammar niblets

If I was an astrochemist, I’d make a lot of jokes about “the lack of believable chemistry between these stars.”

The firefox dev team is working on a "master AI kill switch" that will let users opt out of all the AI stuff they're planning to add to the browser over the next 3 years. That's gotta be a great feeling. "Users have heard about our roadmap, and they hate it. We're still going to work on it, but […]

Remember, you never get a second chance to make a second impression.

I've been playing a fair amount of speed chess lately (3+2), and it shouldn't be underestimated how slow I am at seeing tactics. I've done thousands of chess puzzles over the years to improve my pattern recognition, but I do tough ones that take a lot of calculation. What I need to do now is […]

My mom's sister Janet is a big Roman Catholic, and she's pretty weird about it. She gets furious when we drop casual comments into the conversation about the invalidity of Filioque and how Cerularius is the true father of the church. In other words, our Ortho aunt bait can be toxic.

Nobody ever finished filming a musical and failed to say, "You know, we should have just made this fucking thing an opera. What a disaster. History won't be kind." etc

The NYT connections app is being weird on me today. I finished the puzzle ok, but something tells me this is Wyna finding a new way to ruin my streak.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewreed/115281988401399996 If you like the Coen Brothers, a very good use of your time is reading Andrew's wonderful list of quotes. A lot of these make me bust out laffin even though I can't remember the movie! Some others I ponder from time to time: "Mere […]

*I would not pay three hundred twenty five dollars for a wingéd PEGASUS!*

RE: https://mastodon.online/@50years_music/115272075265395016 Bring back Julie London.

In my dreams, I’m always up AGAINST the scorpions. It’s never me and the scorpion teaming up to save the old mill, or bake a lemon chiffon. It’s time for me and the dream scorpions to bury the hatchet! Whaddya say, gang!?

This is what it sounds like when you're court lutenist and composer for a cruel magnate who abuses you, and you flee, but his minions recapture you and force you to return to his employment, but then you find treasonous letters that incriminate him that you turn over to the King of Poland, who […]

It hit me in the Trader Joe’s yesterday: Blues Traveler is a charity make-work program for people struggling to learn to play the harmonica. Idiot toddlers, maybe?

I’ve never been, but it seems like people are way too negative about clown fiestas. Sounds fun to me!

Flummoxed to discover that my study of terminology related to late middle age feudal property law — such as socage, burgage and escheat — has improved neither my reproductive fitness nor success.