Archive for the 'blog' Category

It’s not quite the face of Jesus…

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

…but my ranch dressing wrote the number “99” earlier today. If you’re having trouble seeing it, try this: I haven’t yet been able to figure out what the salad bar at the Cici’s Pizza on Saddle Creek was trying to tell me.

It was five years ago today…

Friday, August 10th, 2007

WOODSHAFT 2002

125 Years in the Making

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

This picture is of the Auburn 125th anniversary float in the Nemaha County parade. I drew that logo, so it’s kind of cool to see it blown up like that.

Six days

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

portrait by Kendal Obermeyer

Bittersweet

Friday, June 29th, 2007

I was out at Blick today, picking up some Prismacolor markers (the official gray shading marker of Neal Obermeyer cartoons) and some kneaded erasers, and I couldn’t help but overhear one of their staff talking with a young boy and what I imagine was his grandma. The little guy, probably middle school age at oldest, […]

The "drive-by" media

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Right-wing pundits like to borrow the phrase coined by Rush Limbaugh to describe a media that is much more interested in grabbing the juicy bits and ignoring the details of a story. Well on Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck’s programs tonight, they brought on guests to discuss the Chris Benoit story, including the fact that […]

Chris Benoit is dead

Monday, June 25th, 2007

link from WWE.com This is precisely why the WWE’s exploitation of Eddie Guerrero and Owen Hart’s deaths was so horrible. I wrote about this a few days ago, and here and elsewhere people were like “It’s just like when a character dies on any other TV show – it’s entertainment – get over it.” But […]

Now it’s okay if the war was about oil

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I’ve long admired how effective the Bush administration has been when it comes to lying about something, getting caught in the lie, and then justifying the truth they initially sought to lie about. It seems to work on at least 30-something percent of the population, who are willing to vocally defend the lie, and then […]

300 Transformers

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

My letter I sent to AT&T/Cingular and Subway

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Dear AT&T and Subway, I write to you jointly because I am currently a regular customer of both of your companies and I also read that both of you have recently joined sponsorships with World Wrestling Entertainment. I’ve been a wrestling fan since I was a kid – more than 15 years now – but […]