Sketchy Sunday, 11-30-2025

Observed this pattern in one of the used bricks that are part of our living room fireplace. Made this attempt to capture it:

Sketchy Sunday: 11-23-2025

    This started as a simple note to a sleeping Beverly about my whereabouts just before I left for The Best Little Donut House in Concord, a longtime secret treat that I rarely patronize now that I'm a full-blown Type 2 diabetic. Love all their sweets, but the crumb donuts are my all-time favorites. Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Sketchy Sunday, 11-16-2025

I have been reading "The Joke's Over" by artist Ralph Steadman, his account of his journalistic relationship and friendship with Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the premier practitioner of Gonzo Journaism back in the day. Steadman provided the awful but brilliant illustrations that often accompanied Thompson's work, including "Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas" and others. I was taken with Steadman's portrait of Thompson on the cover of his book and did this attempt at a kind of copy. Nice to get back to the drawing board. Thanks to Steadman, who's now 89, for all the brilliant artwork!

A haiku, 11-15-2025

a neighbor's rooster

crows loud enough

to shake down Autumn leaves

Autumn Dusk

 A haiku inspired by a recent walk in Mitchell Canyon:

autumn dusk
crow and I
keep cawing back and forth

You Shoulda Been There, Part 4

The final installment of my reprisal of the strips I did with an AOL feature called TikiChats back in the day of dial-up Internet. I loved that feature, but apparently many didn't, it was soon discontinued. It was a program that allowed you to use predrawn cartoon cells to assemble your own strips and add dialogue. Beverly and I shared an e-mail address then, thus my approach:

You Shoulda Been There, Part 3

Continuing my reprisal of the strips I did with an AOL feature called TikiChat back in the day of dial-up Internet. I loved that feature, but apparently many didn't, it was soon discontinued. It was a program that allowed you to use predrawn cartoon cells to assemble your own strips and add dialogue. Beverly and I shared an e-mail address then, thus my approach: