I wonder if they think of me
There are some unmistakable signs
Seattle, WA | 2007.01.29 | Cast of Horribles | Dream, Earth, Missile, Rocketship, Snowman, Space, Stars
Every night I see less and less
Seattle, WA | 2007.02.02 | Cast of Horribles | City, Earth, Night, Stars, Telescope
"This is it, this is life"
Seattle, WA | 2007.02.09 | Cast of Horribles | Blue Guy, Philosophy, Stars, Sunset
It's like we were made for each other
Seattle, WA | 2007.02.10 | Cast of Horribles | City, Julie, Night, Shooting Star, Stars
They look just like me!
Seattle, WA | 2007.02.15 | Cast of Horribles | Dream, Snowman, Space, Spaceman, Stars
He's plotting to take over the world, I can feel it
Seattle, WA | 2007.02.18 | Cast of Horribles | Baby, Night, Stars
They're all doing something tonight
Seattle, WA | 2007.04.27 | Cast of Horribles | City, Night, Stars
Everyone is famous somewhere, right?
Seattle, WA | 2007.05.28 | Cast of Horribles | Earth, Fashion, Julie, Night, Shirt, Stars, T-shirt
If I only knew now what I'll know then
There was a lot of discussion about the title of this doodle between Julie and my mother. They both think that the English is bad, that I should have titled it "If I only know now what I'll know then." I didn't agree and it remained the way I drew it. I know the grammar isn't right, but I was trying to convey the circular sense of time: the Little Guy is looking at himself in the past, and speaking as the past Little Guy about knowing the future. I couldn't quite wrap my mind around it, which is why I used the grammatically strange title.
Julie didn't like my first version of the little, Little Guy. He was full sized with an extra large foot. I explained that the large foot is like the large head of babies. Julie didn't buy it and I ended up redrawing him.
Seattle, WA | 2007.06.03 | Cast of Horribles | Childhood, Earth, Night, Philosophy, Stars
Long time until sleep
That's us flying to NYC for the wedding. I drew this before we left. I was not looking forward to another flight, especially since our NY flight was in coach. Except for the luggage aggravations, it turned out not to be a bad flight.
Seattle, WA | 2007.06.17 | Cast of Horribles | Julie, Stars, Travel, Wedding
Falling closer is no different than drifting away
This brought back memories of my Snowmen in space doodles. I love drawing stars and the moon, and, come to think of it, anything in the sky. Throwing the earth in there with the space helmet was just a bonus.
Seattle, WA | 2007.06.20 | Cast of Horribles | Earth, Philosophy, Space, Stars
Happiness is about choosing the only way
I've always loved the night sky. At the beginning of college, I thought about a career in astrophysics. I took Astronomy 101 during my first semester. After an early class, I spoke with the professor and expressed my interest. I don't remember what advice he gave, but I told all of my freshman friends about it. I had a rude awakening after my first examination. It turned out that for classes that require memorization, I was not able to squeak by with no effort. It actually required studying. I never studied in gradeschool, and I wasn't about to start in my freshman year. It wasn't until Calculus II that I woke up early on a Saturday morning and spent the morning memorizing integrations and working on problem sets. I can't believe it took me so long to learn to study.
I dropped the astronomy class to protect my GPA and didn't tell my friends. I pretended to attend for the rest of the semester, too embarrassed to admit my early failing, especially after my enthusiastic career plans.
As to the title, this is another of my Jewish learnings. If we accept the Jewish teachings, then God created the world for humans to choose His path. This is a very involved concept, and something I really want to write more about (or at least plagerize out of my one of my better Judaism books). To be truly happy, you follow God's laws. It seems almost anticlimatic to know that happiness equates to absolute obedience. The easy question is What happened to free will? (Free will is a core belief in Judaism.) The hard answer is that the choice to follow God's laws is the perfect exercise of your free will. I'm not explaining this well, but there's something more involved in that answer, something that needs a longer sewcrates musing. Don't think that link brings you there. I haven't written it yet. I'm just hopeful, is all.
Seattle, WA | 2007.08.07 | Cast of Horribles | Judaism, Night, Night Sky, Stars, Trees
Moonlight always seems to have answers
The moon in an episode of Full Metal Alchemist inspired me to draw this doodle. It was another quick and simple doodle. Many times, they come out much better than the more complicated and intricate (and time-consuming) doodles.
I'm leaving for NYC tomorrow, and I probably won't have a chance to draw many Doodles until I return on Sunday. While I still have a number of backup Horribles, I won't be posting Wednesday or Thursday because of the Jewish holidays.
Seattle, WA | 2007.09.10 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Philosophy, Stars
He's growing so fast
It's late, and I don't have much to say. Ziggy is five months old now, and his growing has slowed down. He'll probably grow a bit more, but he'll never be as big as the other dogs. I've learned to accept it. I hope he will too.
The weekend approaches, which means my second shot at computer rebuilding. I'll need to go to Fry's at least once more to exchange the motherboard, and hope the next one works better than the last one. This is my last chance. I figure if I can't do it this weekend, it won't be done by me. Julie is comfortable with my failing, and will probably be relieved once I finish this project and clean the computer room.
Seattle, WA | 2007.10.11 | Cast of Horribles | Dogs, Julie, Stars, Sunset, Ziggy
You smell like truffle oil
We love truffles, and especially truffle oil. Not too much, or it takes over a dish. But a sprinkling on mushrooms or a piece of fish. We'd never use it at home, of course. That would require a level of skill I'm not comfortable with. But in a restaurant, as soon as we see truffle oil, we know it's going to be a good dish.
I made a break through in my Marathon planning. I might have found a genre and a style. I still don't have much of a plot, but I do have some ideas, probably small minded and worth ten or so thousand words. It's a start. I'll see if I can continue my progress through the end of the month.
Seattle, WA | 2007.10.16 | Cast of Horribles | Julie, Night, Stars, Truffle Oil
I'm spiraling downwards
Ah, the "suffering" tagged doodle I planned to post on the first of the year before I had second thoughts. I realized it was bad to start the year on a sour note. There are many suffering Horribles, almost too many. I draw these when I feel like sitting in a dark corner and avoiding everyone. Or it could be I felt like drawing a spiral at the time. It's always hard to say.
We're almost finished organizing the second set of photographs from the wedding. As soon as Julie double checks the ordering, I'll post them.
Seattle, WA | 2008.01.03 | Cast of Horribles | Space, Stars, Suffering
The sorry state of affairs
My mother is arriving tonight for a weekend visit. We all leave on Sunday, Julie and me to Hawaii, my mother back to Brooklyn. We have a Bat Mitzvah to attend on Saturday night, and our regular Friday dinner tomorrow night. I've just about mastered whole chicken. I should write up the recipe one of these days. The secret is rosemary. I've also had a hankering for mashed potatoes. I have a new cookbook, and I'll try to find a good potato recipe.
Seattle, WA | 2008.01.17 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Planets, Stars
The cape isn't necessary, but it sure is fun
Late post today. The rain and cold returned to Seattle with a vengeance (I didn't realize there was an A in vengeance). I think its trying to get back at us for escaping to the warm sun of Hawaii. I can't believe we were there on Sunday. It feels like it was a long time ago.
Chuck has agreed to restart our ping-pong short story "contest." This is where one of us sends the other a story idea, and the watches (with sadistic glee) while the other writes a story based on the story idea usually within the month (or was it a week? I forget). We played rock-paper-scissor and I won (or lost, as Chuck looks at it): I get to serve first and deliver him a story idea. I still haven't come up with the appropriate idea, but it should be ready by this weekend. That means I'll be writing a new short story next month. While I'm excited to start writing again, I'm a bit nervous about actually doing it. What if it comes out like the Marathon?
This Super Little Guy horrible wasn't as good as my others. I don't particularly like the city or the building colors (they're backwards: the buildings further back should be darker)--but I'm too lazy to fix it. You should see the terrible horrible I doodled today. I still haven't returned to form after a week away.
Seattle, WA | 2008.01.31 | Cast of Horribles | City, Night, Stars, Super Little Guy
You can't say I never take you anywhere
Julie and I had this discussion on Sunday: we were sitting around in the evening after visiting the Villa to choose paint colors. We had watched too much Grey's Anatomy (a wonderful show I found on the xbox a few weeks ago), and I needed to get out of the Castle as I was being smothered by the television and the dogs and the stillness. We couldn't figure out where to go. We already ate dinner (leftover Drunken Chicken, which was better the first time around), and it was getting late and dark and cold. It wasn't snowing anymore, thankfully, or thunderstorming, although it has been doing more of both lately. (Funny thing about Grey's Anatomy: it's set in a fictitious hospital in Seattle, and, not surprisingly, it's always raining. But instead of rain it's always thunderstorming, which is probably easier to portray than the sprinkling rain Seattle is famous for. I pointed this out to Julie, and she agreed: it almost never thunderstorms in Seattle. That night it snowed, thunderstormed, and the sun came out. I think it all happened in a fifteen minute window.) Anyway, so we're sitting around and I'm slowly going crazy and I'm trying to figure out what we can do. It's getting late as I download and begin watching yet another episode of Grey's. We can't go to the movies anymore because tomorrow (that is the tomorrow of the weekend, which was on Sunday which meant Monday) was a work day, and I needed to sleep at a normal time to be normal and get work done. So after three more episodes, we decided to call it a night and go to bed. We never did end up doing very much. The next day I thought we should have gone to Lottie's Lounge and drank something. Julie doesn't drink and I'm not much of a drinker either. That said, we could have done something, which would have made this paragraph much shorter--a win-win for all of us.
Don't ask. I'm in a weird mood after closing yesterday and I felt like sharing. The doodle brought it up.
Seattle, WA | 2008.04.01 | Cast of Horribles | Castle, D&D, Julie, Stars, Warrior, Wizard
You don't know what's possible until you try
Inspiration is a wonderful thing. I remember drawing this doodle. I was bored of drawing the Little Guy and adding the same background with a different hue. I decided to go crazy. I added a few swirls, and glowing stars, and then decided not to stop with just the sky. I was a rebel, a breaker of molds, a dreamer of bigger things, a. . . . Okay, so I can only go so crazy with an electronic pen in a small box with a sperm-like fellow. Looking at it now, months after I drew it, whatever inspiration struck, it still gives me tingles. I guess that’s what I hope for in these things.
The weather has been crazy in Seattle. It goes from hot to cold back to hot and then to rainy. It reeks havoc on my head, and I've fought a handful of migraines over the past week. The depression seems to have dissipated somewhat and I’m hoping the thermometer settles down soon.
Seattle, WA | 2008.05.01 | Cast of Horribles | Art, City, Night, Stars, Swirls
It's out there
Doodle-wise, this was a very productive three-day weekend. I spent much time hunched over my fancy tablet drawing doodles, and finishing other doodles I started but forgot about. I'm still not ready to return to the three postings a week yet, but if I continue at my current pace, I could be there in another week or so. (By saying that, of course, I've now jinxed myself to another slow period.)
Even though the forecasts were dire, the weather held rather well over the weekend. I posted a few photos we had sitting around, and a few albums we took over the long weekend.
I attempted to write on Sunday morning. I'll spare you the gory details, as I ended up with half a page of consternations, most of which concerned the fact that my dogs were running around my legs as I attempted to write in our backyard. Yeah, it was exceptionally engaging.
Seattle, WA | 2008.05.27 | Cast of Horribles | Fashion, Night, Stars
It's not always out there
I skipped over a few anime-esque posts to show this one. It's a simple doodle but one I enjoy. After reducing the evenings we play video games from seven to two, I managed to eek out a couple of new doodles yesterday. I haven't been doodling much since the end of the Marathon. I won't point fingers.
Mercer Island, WA | 2008.12.09 | Cast of Horribles | Stars
"It approaches"
I love these D&D tagged doodles. Little did I know that this doodle was the precursor to our Warhammer Online addiction. We are finally over that game, as it grew a bit repetitive at the end. Julie still wants to play, but after trying out all the character classes, I'm satiated. The only thing left to do is choose our favorite characters and doodle them. I'll try to resist playing when we log in for the group photograph.
The cold weather has left Seattle, and we're now in the midst of warm, wet rainstorms. While the snow was nice for the first day, thanks to the terrible plowing and lack of salted streets (!), it grew tiresome quickly.
Work is busy after the holidays. It's a pleasant busy, kind of how you feel after a good meal, full but not overly so. I've been doodling a bunch but haven't seriously put pen to paper since the Marathon. I had high hopes. Now I barely have hopes in that direction. At least my Kindle is seeing lots of use.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.01.08 | Cast of Horribles | D&D, Stars, Warrior
Think the good thoughts
I decided to break up my two negative Horribles. Here's an optimistic one--unless you see through my fake happiness (known via Ally McBeal as smile therapy).
I came down with a cold a few days ago. I'm mighty congested and sneezing, but otherwise fine. It's a strange cold, one that I hope passes soon.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.01.20 | Cast of Horribles | Happy, Stars
I want to copy something but I can't figure what
Many nights start like this: I sit in front of the computer and stare at a blank canvas and wonder what I'll draw. Sometimes I store an idea during the day on a scrap of paper--more regularly I have an idea but forget to write it down, which is the same as having no ideas. Most days I start drawing the Little Guy and hope for inspiration.
Once I have an idea, I either draw from memory if it's simple, or check sewcrates's photo page, or search various image searches for a model. I then start doodling away.
On the good days, I'll end up with something I'm proud of. On the normal days, I'll have something passable. And on the terrible days I'll question why I bother. As I was telling Jennifer yesterday, in my view, art is all about repetition until your fingers bleed in the hopes of creating something worthwhile.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.02.25 | Cast of Horribles | Art, Earth, Night, Paint, Stars
Come here my sexy machine
Battlestar Galactica, oh how you started out so incredible and became such crap by the second season. Julie and I stopped watching it then. We loved the first season, somewhat enjoyed parts of the second season, and hated the rest. It murdered innocent old ladies. It did unspeakable things to polite society. It had such promise and squandered it by writers who forgot to plan ahead. The same thing happens to most animes: they start incredibly strong, but because they weren't well planned, they peter out and head in ridiculous directions. But at least BSG left us this Horrible.
It's snow-raining right now. This is by far the strangest winter. I had hopes that it would end well, with Spring sticking its colorful mug from the ground early. Hopes spring eternal, or something. For now I'll accept the snow-rain and get on with my day.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.03.07 | Cast of Horribles | Battlestar Galactica, Cylon, Night, Robot, Stars, TV
The copying tree
This is based on Justin Hillgrove's The Dreaming Tree, which resulted in much jealousy when I saw it in a gallery. So we bought it and a few other prints, and I created a Horrible as a tribute to unattainable artistic skill.
The weekend ground to a halt yesterday. Not sure what was on the road, but my wheels are gone.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.03.23 | Cast of Horribles | Justin Hillgrove, Night, Stars, Tribute
You need me most on the darkest nights
Super Little Guy returns! And he's here to save the day or something. We could use him at home as things are running amok. Our nice quiet organized life is at risk.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.03.27 | Cast of Horribles | Hero, Night, Stars, Super Little Guy
The day's demons still haunt me
I'm too tired to say anything this morning. This is not because of our visitor, who slept through the night. This tiredness was caused by too much sleep. I hate having to find the perfect amount of sleep every night. It's exhausting.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.04.02 | Cast of Horribles | Demons, Moon, Night, Stars, Trees
There are strange things everywhere
My queue is beginning to shrink. I have to get adoodling this weekend.
It's a beautiful Seattle morning, the beginning for a beautiful Seattle weekend. Here's to not wasting good weather with bad headaches.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.05.15 | Cast of Horribles | Space, Spaceman, Stars
The universe must be looking out for me, right?
I've got nothing but scribbles for you these days.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.05.17 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Night, Stars
If only they knew the truth
Another beautiful day in Seattle. Here on out, I'll only report on the bad days. Less words that way.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.05.29 | Cast of Horribles | Alien, Earth, Night, Stars
Wonderful things are worth the wait
This one has been a long time coming. We celebrate our anniversary this week. We settled on the NY date this year. We plan to alternate every year, giving me two chances to forget.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.06.26 | Cast of Horribles | Boat, Stars, Sunrise, Water
I missed the day
It was cool this morning! My days of writing about weather are over! (Okay, we all know that's not true.) It's Friday finally. This has been a long hot week. I'm more than ready for the weekend.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.07.31 | Cast of Horribles | Running, Stars
Witty tagline would go here
Witty description would go here as well.
Mercer Island, WA | 2009.08.13 | Cast of Horribles | Stars, Taglines
It's my listening post
It's been a while since I threw another doodle to the wall. Here you go: another in a long line of meaning Super Little Guy Horribles.
Flight from NYC to Seattle | 2009.09.09 | Cast of Horribles | Stars, Super Little Guy
That's going to be us some day
Looks like another nice day out there. Might be time to take out the rocketship.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.02.04 | Cast of Horribles | Rocketship, Stars
I should be sleeping
Another beautiful Monday morning. I can get used to this. The weekend went by quickly again. Lots of parks and dogs. I didn't doodle as much as I had hoped. I may end up paying for this.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.02.22 | Cast of Horribles | Earth, Moon, Stars
The world is still watching
I intended to post my Olympics Horrible, but I can't find the energy to write about the experience. This one needs fewer words.
This was inspired from this cartoon background found in this collection of Pocahontas (1985) backgrounds.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.03.01 | Cast of Horribles | Art, Moon, Stars, Trees, Water
It's time I return to my own planet
A perfect Horrible for a wonderful Friday. See you next week!
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.03.19 | Cast of Horribles | Alien, Earth, Stars
I miss showing you the snow
We're back after a very rainy trip to NY. We spent most of our time in an oversized hotel room hiding from the rain. I worked too much during the vacation. I do have a few photographs I still have to post. I'm not sure if it was the depressing weather or just laziness, but we did not take as many photographs as we usually do to document our trip.
As we left NYC, the sun decided to come out. As we returned to Seattle, the rain decided to come out. We're not very good at this.
This doodle is inspired from this background (via Animation Backgrounds).
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.04.01 | Cast of Horribles | Snow, Stars, Trees
The night holds many mysteries
I didn't have coffee this morning. I can't figure out why I feel so lethargic.
Dallas, TX | 2010.04.08 | Cast of Horribles | Night, Stars
The city awaits me
Another weekend approaches. This has been a busy couple of weeks. It looks like things are finally slowing down. Hopefully I'll have some time to doodle this weekend.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.06.18 | Cast of Horribles | City, Stars, Super Little Guy
They're here to protect us
. . . from the heat. And they're not doing a terribly good job of it. The unseasonably hot weather is descending on Seattle. I know it's bad form to complain when NYC wallows in triple digits. But that's what I do: complain about the weather.
This Horrible was based on a Justice League cartoon, with a wonderful art style, a strong beginning, and a boring, drawn out conclusion. For that reason I won't bother linking to it. Western cartoons are missing humor. I used to think it was annoying and childish in the Japanese animes. Now, when I see a cartoon without it, I miss the personality it provides to the story.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.07.07 | Cast of Horribles | Anime, Blue Guy, Conspiracy Guy, DC Comics, Julie, Justice League: The New Frontier, Purple Boss, Stars, Superheroes
It's almost here
Ah, the end of a long weekend. It looks like we're in for a good week. 70s and sunny for the rest of the week.
And for the record, this is the third Horrible with the same title: first and second. Further proof that I'm a hack.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.09.13 | Cast of Horribles | Airplane, Stars
There's worlds out there I can't understand
I've completed my study: I cannot think without caffeine now. This is not good.
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.09.16 | Cast of Horribles | Stars, Worlds
There's more than one way to get there
Mercer Island, WA | 2010.09.29 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Snowman, Stars
Speed of Life
I've been doodling again. Not sure where these characters are going, but I thought it was time to throw them up on a page. For now I'm calling it Inner Tirade.
