Blunderdoodle!

up turtle

2011-08-28T14:01:00.001-07:00

What's Amusing Me Now: Dr. Who Series 6

2011-06-19T12:30:00.000-07:00

No spoilers, just a recommendation.

I like my adventure stories manic. Plot is good -- plot is very, very good, but it's better with fast-talking, blink-and-you-miss-it humor, bizarre/awkward sexual tension, and pacing that packs a whole lot of important info into a few minutes.

I reeeally like new Dr. Who.

The most recent episode ("A Good Man Goes To War," the midpoint of Series 6) featured all of the above. Well-fleshed-out characters in an admittedly absurd universe is one of the best things ever, and this installment was running its dark/giddy scenes by us so fast I thought it might've been an episode of Venture Brothers. (The quick introduction of several new, very minor characters who could well have incredible backstories also made me think of VB. I know Dr. Who is a beloved cultural institution and the other's an Adult Swim cartoon, but both exist in detailed scifi universes that ask the viewer to follow a whole lot of threads, and are all kinds of fun to puzzle about.)

Dr. Who is on break 'til September (returning with "Let's Kill Hitler"[!]) but turns out you can follow the showrunner on twitter, if you're that kind of nerd.

Useful: Wikipedia's list of Dr. Who serials

New Feature: What's Amusing Me Now?

2011-06-17T21:23:00.000-07:00

Attractively packaged wine! Clearly portable mini-bottles aren't for winos, they're for fun, young, splashy, hip summery people. This works on me. I even got the pinot noir over the type I'd probably prefer, because this package was bright pink. (I may be susceptible to things I wouldn't normally be into, if they are bright pink. See also: Nicki Minaj.)

une see fights: haters

2011-01-30T04:47:00.000-08:00

I have a comic up today over at Une See Fights!

hex

2010-08-02T18:23:00.000-07:00

In a notebook I recently bought there is an inexplicable hexagon in the lower-right-hand corner of each page. It is from here on known as "doodle food":

what wouldn't you want with an octopus

2010-07-28T20:49:00.000-07:00

come on cephalopods
i see you jockin' me
tryin' to play like
you know me

lamps: still neat

2010-07-27T19:54:00.000-07:00

cranky turtle

2010-07-20T19:30:00.001-07:00

Someday this will be a comic.

homemade ESL worksheet theater

2010-07-19T23:08:00.001-07:00

This is what I did today.

somewhere in Jamaica Plain...

2010-07-18T18:28:00.000-07:00

...there is a house that doesn't actually look all that much like this. But a little.

i love lamp

2010-07-13T20:32:00.000-07:00

This light looks like something I'd make up. It is in fact grasshopper-colored and hanging out outside a Boston University dorm.

won't you show me where it hurts

2010-07-12T18:35:00.000-07:00

My language center is pooped.

the intriguing anti-fashion of this guy I saw on the train

2010-07-10T10:15:00.001-07:00

Riding home (on a really warm summer night, which makes it all the more slightly-mysterious) I couldn't quite look away from this dude. He was less "vintage chic" and more "I'm wearing a bunch of stuff I found in my grandfather's basement but I somehow really make it work." Which is something I admire, with befuddlement.

stoner stoners

2010-07-08T20:53:00.000-07:00

Overcompensating is a good comic.

madness!

2010-07-07T20:29:00.001-07:00

He is a chef of some kind! Perhaps a baker!

i might just start drawing shapes of structures around Boston.

2010-07-06T18:06:00.001-07:00

They're neat.

sea party

2010-01-16T15:55:00.000-08:00

swirlybird

2009-10-16T18:31:00.000-07:00

hermit day.

2009-10-04T21:22:00.001-07:00

word suggestions: "dignity" "hippo"

2009-09-30T14:52:00.000-07:00

Temporarily using GIMP; still slightly confused.

word suggestion: "badger."

2009-09-27T17:54:00.000-07:00

I feel like badgers have been anthropomorphized in every imaginable way. I'm having cartoon flashbacks of badgers wearing little police hats, badgers with pink bows in their hair.

So in the interest of mixing things up, I bring you NINJA BADGERS FROM SPACE.

(I am currently unsure how to color this.)

Ok, it's not Thursday; I plead jetlag.

2009-09-19T20:22:00.001-07:00

Suggested words: ghost, viking.

on a vacation of sorts. be back Thursday.

2009-09-11T17:58:00.000-07:00

word suggestions: "centaur," "topiary"

2009-09-09T09:55:00.001-07:00

doodle request: "helenbot"

2009-09-08T19:37:00.000-07:00

My robot self would think they were Robot Picasso.

All of the previous posts have been Illustrator doodles. This is pen + ink + Photoshop, and I've just realized that Photoshop can be like an infinite box of colored pencils. Neat!