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#1571; Of Integrity and Youth (Part 2)

  — July 22nd, 2025

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Writing: joy to the fish

Wrote this after a particularly interesting dinner a little while back.

(to the tune of “Hark, the Herald Angeles Sing”)

I’sshaimase, the chefs cry out;
Glorious promise in their shout!
Please be seated! Look! Behold:
Crab and salmon, smoked and rolled.
Bring us miso-broiled cod;
Feed us Asia’s piscine god;
Reap the fruits of Old Japan —
Bring us Kirin Ichiban.
This is what taste buds are for:
Not quite done, but bring us more!

O! We’re stuffed, but still it comes —
Toss some ginger on our tongues.
Chopsticks fly with dextrous ease
God, I love the Japanese!
Only chefs with skill resplendent
Could create food so transcendent
Thanks for nourishing our souls!
Thanks for California rolls!
Reach beneath my stomach’s dome:
Left my wallet back at home.

Drawing: carmonster

grarrrgh i will never be sated

Drew this guy after I got the estimate for some (pretty extensive) car repairs.

Whenever I draw things with very intricate portions, I inevitably get to the point where I get called away before I can finish the whole thing to the same level of detail — and when I get back to it, well, I could force myself to finish it but usually I’ve lost the spark of it.  Nothing wrong with disciplining oneself to work in the face of “no inspiration” — in fact that’s pretty much the definition of a professional creative individual — but for scraps of crap like this it’s just more fun to doodle something new.

Drawing: sumo smash

hirstutism is a treatable condition

It’s hard to see, because the scanner flattened it out, but this dude started on one page of a memo pad and grew right off the edge. I had to tape two more sheets to the first one, and even still it wasn’t quite enough (his hand is a little cut off, there). I’ve found that drawings tend to grow, and it’s actually pretty fun to just slap some tape on the page and keep on going right off the edge (instead of trying to squeeze into the corner and ending up with a character with tiny feet).

Check out: Mary V. Marsh

courtesy artincontext.org

I’d never heard of the artist Mary V. Marsh until about a week ago, and right now what I do know can be summed up in three sentences:  For 365 days she drew on things.  The work was exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art in 1998.  I don’t know anything else.

But it is pretty interesting!  I am not alone in this idea that you should draw on whatever you like without regard for its “appropriateness” as a canvas.  There are some more great Marsh drawings here.


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