I don't normally put my drawrings up here but thought I'd go ahead and start putting them up. This one's called Ansel Yeti- you might can make out the large format camera strapped on his back. This was done with some watercolor, some gouache, and a bunch of Illustrator and Photoshop. Hope you likey!

I'm not exactly sure of the year, and I'm sure some history professor could probably figure it out, but somewhere along the late 70's/early 80's, men stopped wearing mustaches. I feel like it is actually a distinct moment in time, and will probably later allow us to date historic events with more meaning, much like the A.D./B.C. convention allows us.

I don't know what it is, but I just can't wear a mustache. It makes me feel naked, or the same feeling as naked. As avid readers will recall, I once owned a 2001 Police Interceptor, the best coasting car known to man. My co-workers and I decided it would be fun to go eat lunch together in the "cruiser" sporting the most porn-star mustaches we could muster. But none of us, from whatever township or age group could grow a mustache normally. We all had to "beard up" for the two or three weeks leading up to the event, whereupon we shaved down to the mustache for the day.

Amazing! How does he do that?

There some who couldn't stand wearing the mustache past lunch and shaved it off afterwards with whatever they could find. I'm not sure what it is about mustaches, but there is a year or two somewhere around 1978/1979 where if you were wearing a mustache before then your fine, but if you try afterwards it just doesn't work. Just look at Tom Selleck- above. The penultimate in mustached perfection. I can't for the life of me figure out how he can pull that off an look so good. He really looks like the older version of "Shoeless Joe Graham" from the greatest movie of all time, "Field of Dreams" (besides 'Time Bandits' and 'On the Right Track' with Gary Coleman).

There's a great sign at a mall near my earth home. It doesn't really need any explaining. In fact it's unexplainably silly. It just conjures up images of things happening on YouTube in big back yards and someone with too much time on their hands.

And while I'm at it, here's a hilarious and unexplainably silly logo from a service bus in my quadrant:

The company evidently is a bus service for "Special People- Special Needs". But the logo features what looks to be a wheelchair jumping off the end of a ramp, complete with speed lines to indicate motion. I'm not sure what was going on during those logo design meetings, but I can bet they were even funnier than the logo.

And finally, while I'm doing a little cel phone image dump, here is something that makes me unexplainably happy:

This is the double-cheese burger platter from my favorite restaurant in the whole world, the Goody-Goody Omelette House in Wilmington, NC. I just had to take a picture of the wholesome goodness. 

Have you seen all the Prius' with the apra pro license plates:

HI-BRID
GASLESS
52MPG

What is it about Prius' with the gas related vanity plates? I saw someone who had taken those big trailer park address number sticker things and put "Drive Slower, Save Gas". You know what kind of car it was on? A Honda CR-V. There's something funny about that, but it's kind of complex, I'm not really sure I want to cover that right now, but can you see the humor? I wanted to put a "Drive Faster Save Gas" on my Jeep because I thought  you wouldn't have to run the AC and that would save gas, but I did some research and found out that people don't read signs on Jeeps.

My son loves to sing Jesus Loves Me. He also loves camo and a loud pop-gun. Mix the two together and you get this.

I'm not sure what's so silly about this picture but I laugh my head off everytime I see it:

Miniature Power Rangers

There's so much going on here I don't know where to start. The enourmous school bus in full sunlight. The anxious mom on cel phone, waiting for her son to come home from his first day at school. The two miniature Power Rangers at the bottom, in shadow, masks off. The black Ranger is my earth son, and something about seeing him in a Power Ranger costume, when my earth wife and I have worked so hard at keeping him UnDisneyfied is both saddening and hilarious. 

My fan mail bag is full of letters not so much of unrequited love, but things like "What do you do for a living?" So to give you an answer in the form of a docu-drama, please "check-out" my Volkswaffe movie:

I recently finished a short film, a docu-drama about the Volkswaffe, the oft-misunderstood flying Volkwsagen Beetles of WWII's Nazi Germany. I have put it up on YouTube in hopes of making the daily top 10,000- hey, it doesn't hurt to "dream" (I don't actually dream, but take a synthetic hormone which causes hallucinations involving being late for my first day of school and missing my exams, so it's close enough to an "earth" dream for me to call it dreaming).

I like when something becomes so ubiquitous that it defines itself- Old school terms: Xerox, Kleenex and Dictaphone. The internet domain naming system made its domains so ubiquitous that people started using them in their company names. The sillyness comes when you see their websites, which use the self-defining 'Com' in addition to the domain com. Suncom.com, Pet-Net.net and netnet.net. I haven't noticed any org.org names, but please point one out to me if you see it so it can be properly ridiculed.

Webinar- The word is just plain goofy. Why is it I just want to giggle everytime I see or hear the word webinar. I don't believe I've ever heard anyone say the word without a snicker from someone else near them. It's like it has virtual "Chris Farley" "Quotation" "Marks" built right in.

 You might as well call it an extended "Wecture", or a even a "Wesson". Webinar sounds like a planet out of an old episode of Bugs Bunny, or possibly a failed macrame technology firm from the 70's. It doesn't feel natural, like the word "cellphone" did when people got tired of saying cellular phone. It feels forced, like the French, when they created a French word for email (couriel), having grown tired of ugly Americans getting all the etymological internet glory.

Please, if you must have an event on the internet for purposes of learning something, please just call it a seminar and save us the laugh- the word is just not working.