There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
What have I been up to lately you might ask? I’ll tell you what I’ve been up to…I’ve been busting my tail getting the next issue of GravyBoy finished. And after nearly 20 hours of work this weekend, you can stick a fork in me. I’m done.
I spent most of [...]
Entertainment this afternoon after my 4th block exams was provided by a roll of packing tape and 8 high school kids who thought it would be fun to pull the hairs our of their arms with it.
I vote them all “Most Likely to be Featured in the Darwin Awards.”
It’s hard to believe I’ve been teaching for the last three months.
Just about the time I’ve gotten a good repoire going with the students, it’s time to call it a semester. As frustrating as it can be sometimes, I still like the job. Sure beats the neverending nothingness of sitting [...]
I was handing out semester grades today, and I forgot to give one to one of my students (she’s one of my better kids, behaviorally and academically.)
Her: “You didn’t give me one!
Me: “Oh, well, you got a zero.”
Her: “I am…like..the second most important person here!”
Me: “Who’s the first?”
Her: “. . [...]
The next two weeks are going to be busy.
The inks are done on my next book, and all that’s left is dropping in the graytones. Of course, it’s never as simple as just “dropping in the graytones.” My friend Danny is doing most of the graytone flats on this book (flats [...]
Last night I just couldn’t get my head into what I was doing. I was kind of like that all day, though. But when I sat down to draw, all that came out looked like a 9 year old kid had done it. I just couldn’t settle down.
So I [...]
There are certain anchorpoints in my memory that I always go to when I think of phases in my life. Watching my grandpa load the tiller up onto the blue pickup just as the rain starts…bringing tadpoles for show and tell in the third grade only to find out that they had grown legs [...]
Saturday I was handed a one-page comic story about the evils of “collective socialism” in our culture. What that means is a high school-aged boy in (as far as I could tell) what was a drug-induced mental cloud handed me a practically incoherent peice of work that required 3 of us to decipher. [...]
But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.” - 1 Chronicles 21:24
The ubiquitous “they” tell us that time is money. I am of the mind that they got [...]
Four more weeks of school. Then my first real summer vacation since college. Sure, I pretty much had the whole year off last year..but I was in school. So that doesn’t count.
A lot of the kids are coming up to me now all worried about their grades. You know [...]