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a popular american beverage
A popular mealtime beverage in the United States is cold tea, usually served over ice. In restaurants with self serve drinks, it’s often found in large canisters alongside the soda machines. The two...
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spider time: post 6
We return to Moose and her friends, who have taken shelter from a summer thunderstorm at the fairgrounds in the most story-like possible place: the old fashioned sideshow that’s always been more or...
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the last days of the old double garage
World Headquarters has always had an outbuilding, a two and a half car detached garage. This garage is the model for all the detached garages in Kekionga, and appears directly in the comics as The Old...
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the double garage, in between
A few notes for the days in between the Old Double Garage and the New Double Garage. (We hope it will only be a few days.) List of things you need to demolish a garage: sledgehammer pry bar garden fork...
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how to build a garage
One: Have a circular saw and a large nail gun. (Also a square, a measuring tape, one of those flat pencils, and a medium sized step ladder.) Two: Order several pallets of really long boards in various...
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the new double garage, day 2
The New Double Garage takes shape. The lintel of the overhead door is extra strength engineered lumber, dyed blue-green to distinguish it from an ordinary board. The roof has rafters, and a ridgepole....
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spider time: post 15
The rescue mission is successful—so far. Things were going smoothly, too smoothly. The grass and weeds went down easily under the heavy carpet, which was just light enough for Murphy and Mr. Spit,...
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popcorn crop
A drive across Indiana on a dusty dry October day offers a through-the-windshield glimpse of the popcorn harvest in action. Indiana is the second largest producer of that lively grain in the US, after...
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we’ll always have josephine baker
There’s a crazy day, and then there’s a Josephine Baker crazy day. I guess that would be one that’s beautiful, intelligent and elegant as well. Here’s wishing you had one today. (If you’ve never met...
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spider time, post 18
The sun is coming up, the Frozen Cave Girl is melting, and Foursquare has taken charge. This is where my version of the story takes a small break. Nina, Lee, Murphy and I took off for home. We made it...
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the new double garage (more or less finished)
I haven’t been posting the many tiny increments that have marked the slow, slow progress of the garage. Some of the most important steps, such as the full week it took to finish the electrics, were...
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the new mazdas
The new Mazdas have got all the cute, from their little shark noses to their black plastic fenders. It’s no secret that we like Mazdas around here, with two in our household fleet. Mazda makes a good,...
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friday sunset, in november, with the cube
Why do I always seem to photograph neighborhood sunsets on Fridays? Regardless of scheduling, here is tonight’s, as seen by the Polaroid Cube toy camera. Two different crops from the same shot, one my...
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best of the drawing of the day–sibling stripes
Cool! a drawing of the day! Where did the weekly best of the drawing of the day feature go? Have I stopped working on my daily finished drawing project, the one that has gone on for, get this, almost...
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monogram of the alphabet
If monogram is the right word– all of the letters and numbers are contained in this symbol. (A quick search will find the image as an animated gif which will show you how to find the characters, if...
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haiku (automotive)
Corvette transporter: Cars shrouded in white vinyl Like ghosts of sports cars. (Actually written in the actual car. The third line took three tries.)
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free the giant internet salamander!
There is a giant salamander in China. It is 5 feet long, possibly 200 years old and is on the Internet. While I am glad to be able to see this marvelous beast, and that scientists have been able to...
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not this, but that
Another photograph from my holiday trip to Cleveland: this Metroparks refuse container is safe from one type of animal raider but not another. For what it’s worth, I think whoever picks the trash cans...
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