tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39996261741588942152024-03-16T02:31:37.201-04:00Daily NapkinsNapkins drawn by Nina Levy for her sons.
Daily for 10 years. Now that the kids eat in the school cafeteria:
merely occasionally, not daily, but we are stuck with the name.ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.comBlogger1817125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-48506317331862856692021-08-04T16:49:00.001-04:002021-08-04T17:07:27.814-04:00Fashion Animals<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovr3SanaucQAvTCE2qDt6ma-0XnSqgNWT-okXcMHX1HAHd99zKJwkrdxZUJn630e4fT5EHK2Id1kS8KRdUpULw97qp-8MqARtZcnkyBAeGWmAVIo4MNHic56hradi3jQaZdBh4Dd83D4/s1600/IMG_0781-792069.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6992680038330196242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovr3SanaucQAvTCE2qDt6ma-0XnSqgNWT-okXcMHX1HAHd99zKJwkrdxZUJn630e4fT5EHK2Id1kS8KRdUpULw97qp-8MqARtZcnkyBAeGWmAVIo4MNHic56hradi3jQaZdBh4Dd83D4/s320/IMG_0781-792069.JPG" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Fashion Animals 1990-2021:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">This was a recent birthday card I made that referred to a project from 1990. I made a bunch of life size “fashion animals” - ladies in designer dresses with animal heads out of paper maché and assorted other stuff for display in a shoe store (yes, my mother’s shoe store!) </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Please remember this was over thirty years ago. I was not afraid of the difficulties of fabrication...or critical judgement- I have to at least appreciate those qualities in my younger self. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The following images are the animals in my swanky first studio in Chicago, where I slept immediately next to my plaster and cement mixing and casting area, and the elevated train ran past the windows approximately every five minutes. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">(How often does the train go by? So often you won’t even notice it!- accolades to those who know what movie that quote comes from)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Not sure that my rendering ability has become much less awkward in the intervening three decades... but I still enjoy the opportunity to draw an aardvark in a dress. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">And there was a warthog in the original set of figures- but it does not feature in these photos I unearthed from a dusty filing cabinet.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Happy July 4th</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Joey Chestnut, again the winner of the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, prepares to ingest Hotdog Rick.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">This napkin was a very brief effort, mostly executed between viewing the NYC fireworks and the broadcast of the latest episode of Rick and Morty. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">An exciting evening at our house.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Hope your fourth was exciting.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-14128191116917532892021-04-22T19:59:00.000-04:002021-04-22T20:04:01.259-04:00Captain Planet for Earth Day 2021<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62hBMIUm__zpkkAVgjNMmNUdEYbW-1ZiLWaYM8CGRgCItFhhpbmlw6NWcw_xVIRPxKXaSkBsnpRpiJfaeAgGTlzzSV47r5Z-6fy72m8yv2agZR1vMiC7BOeqEBChjMvx4hX7NgeniKIY/s1600/IMG_2820-707107.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6954136207101357026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62hBMIUm__zpkkAVgjNMmNUdEYbW-1ZiLWaYM8CGRgCItFhhpbmlw6NWcw_xVIRPxKXaSkBsnpRpiJfaeAgGTlzzSV47r5Z-6fy72m8yv2agZR1vMiC7BOeqEBChjMvx4hX7NgeniKIY/s320/IMG_2820-707107.JPG" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Clumsy Cheadle Portrait Meets Combustible Crucifer</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">When our younger son suggested I draw Captain Planet today, he was thinking of the original animated show “Captain Planet and the Planeteers” from back in the 90’s. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was considerably after my time, and well before his.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I gather both of our kids were aware of Captain Planet because of its memeification... (is that a word yet?) and because one notorious episode concerning drug addiction features an overdose, so the internet is interested in that sort of thing. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But despite the amazing list of celebrities voicing the villains, (Ed Asner, Jeff Goldblum, Meg Ryan, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Martin Sheen, Sting, Malcolm McDowell, etc, etc) I can’t remember ever having seen the show. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But I do remember the Don Cheadle parody where the Captain goes insane and turns everyone into trees: “Remember to recycle or I’ll turn you into a f*cking tree!” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He is quite on the wavelength of Ultron and Thanos, destroying humanity for its own good. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I think there was also a bit where he turned a guy into broccoli for failing to recycle a bottle. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">We had a long history with my passive aggressive representations of broccoli on my kids’ lunch napkins, so a flaming floret seemed appropriate for today. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-31688596522328643242021-02-14T17:00:00.001-05:002021-02-14T17:02:41.935-05:00Valentines Day Grogu Cupid<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYkqP6VrKLWb9I9WO3hTpxIFo840vwxbtJRePbFLSypYTnTV8laGZnQUGxiRKbgfwEX6Q3fleXprSv4A7o7n7EVx6QJzfQ76FGIGjs35VnhBMSQQiZ056xYUzsuPVohaS0g7APoiEpgf0/s1600/IMG_9127-735764.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6929242700545633330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYkqP6VrKLWb9I9WO3hTpxIFo840vwxbtJRePbFLSypYTnTV8laGZnQUGxiRKbgfwEX6Q3fleXprSv4A7o7n7EVx6QJzfQ76FGIGjs35VnhBMSQQiZ056xYUzsuPVohaS0g7APoiEpgf0/s320/IMG_9127-735764.JPG" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo">Happy Valentines Day 2021</p><p class="mobile-photo">I once drew napkins to gratify my sons’ wishes, now my goal might be to make them cringe. Is this my job as a parent of teens? </p><p class="mobile-photo">We might all be tired of Baby Yoda, but it seemed like the obvious choice.</p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-24726835652941032302020-12-31T23:20:00.000-05:002020-12-31T23:24:12.379-05:00Happy New Year 2021<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbg-DbprrAQPjLrhNrEkKdoOvQDDKAn6BJBU8g_6LHnW1fgMdzUn8iHtmu5xaVqIzQO0Q7ou_UXl3xgzSvujhW4iGhlF4cfYvIytjwyjqeb1E3PhLBMhV1Yck66urMJ1qMMa_gDuHc_U/s1600/IMG_8974-700598.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6912642070943504322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbg-DbprrAQPjLrhNrEkKdoOvQDDKAn6BJBU8g_6LHnW1fgMdzUn8iHtmu5xaVqIzQO0Q7ou_UXl3xgzSvujhW4iGhlF4cfYvIytjwyjqeb1E3PhLBMhV1Yck66urMJ1qMMa_gDuHc_U/s320/IMG_8974-700598.JPG" /></a></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">One last incendiary image for the year, badly drawn on an absorbent paper product.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Our most inflammatory napkin was the pairing of Trump and the Star Wars prequels buffoon, Jar Jar Binks, back in the pre-end times of January 2016. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At the time, I wrote something about how my sons, despite knowing little about politics at the time, had an irrational hatred of Donald Trump, which was possibly only exceeded by their irrational hatred of Jar Jar. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">We had just watched “The Revenge of the Sith,” so I was thinking about the fanboy theory that George Lucas had originally intended for Jar Jar to be revealed at the end of the saga to be the top Sith Lord, the ultimate bad guy. My title for the post was <a href="http://ninaslevy.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-do-jar-jar-binks-and-donald-trump.html" target="_blank">“Could Idiocy Mask an Evil Master Plan?”</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">There’s definitely been enough idiocy and genuine evil to go around this year, (and the four years that preceded it) but I don’t think the two have been conspiring in quite the way I was suggesting back in 2016. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">As I mentioned, it was definitely our most vehemently protested napkin post. Unsurprisingly, no one spoke up to support Jar Jar. I had not considered that we had many followers who would be so offended by this pairing. One irritated commenter memorably suggested that I needed to draw Barack Obama with Satan to even the score. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Poor Jar Jar. At least he presumably lives long ago in a galaxy far, far away.....</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Here’s to hoping that 2021 will not be so frequently described as a container of burning trash.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-75938229365724642012020-11-02T11:53:00.004-05:002020-11-02T11:53:28.404-05:00Inktober 2020<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6SOl8Z7kxsCU9QtgWjeUof1JlkGiHpk-_uCOqlc3uPgpFmQGVDmYR9I2MwTkL9gSo676y1i4g0Np408IQQ2BnBJmKQchfxLO6lRpU0U2MOTajIa8qsEfqe1BZVD5YddkAuUSuOlm9cdc/s3760/25A044D5-253B-4512-8E30-A73A287B9023.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3760" data-original-width="2982" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6SOl8Z7kxsCU9QtgWjeUof1JlkGiHpk-_uCOqlc3uPgpFmQGVDmYR9I2MwTkL9gSo676y1i4g0Np408IQQ2BnBJmKQchfxLO6lRpU0U2MOTajIa8qsEfqe1BZVD5YddkAuUSuOlm9cdc/s320/25A044D5-253B-4512-8E30-A73A287B9023.jpeg" /></a></div><br /> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020</span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">(Minus one drawing, inexplicably missing at the time of the photo...later discovered stuck to the back of another. Not a great loss, as it was perhaps my least favorite. And it’s absence turned the unwieldy 31 into a nicely composed 30)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Definitely not a success overall, but completed nonetheless.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">In years past, I’ve felt that the Inktober exercise, while uncomfortable, ended up pushing me to make some drawings that I felt pretty pleased with in retrospect.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">This year, not so much. Something about the viral video / meme source material, and my rather flat-footed, ‘draw what you see,’ approach to them, provided me with a fine opportunity to make a lot of crappy drawings. Or maybe I am just losing whatever shred of drawing insight I might have had. There might be maybe two drawings in there that don’t totally embarrass me. Maybe.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Looking carefully at the videos and involving my family in choosing them (even the other adult in the house participated!) was, however, interesting and worthwhile. And in the original spirit of the daily napkins project of course. It is always intriguing to see someone else’s slice of the Internet. And of course, always good to have a reason to check in on what our kids are looking at. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But I am glad this one is over. When I tackled a meme or video in the napkins in the past, I always tried to put a more personal spin on it, so I didn’t end up trying to make an interesting drawing out of a grainy video that didn’t really want to be reduced to one image anyway.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But, I always tell the MFA students that I work with not to be afraid to make some crappy work... so here I am, executing my own advice, making a lot of really crappy stuff. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Hope it is a step in the path to making something more interesting.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-37441185289595990872020-11-02T10:32:00.001-05:002020-12-22T21:08:49.274-05:00Now Here I Go Again<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYTdq_Agr53CFksk6qKRF3mWm0e41iKvn0FUWzmGKuS1SZoxXGR5CwKCQdg3h0kH9_KKgLTkiz8N6lpPqLPg9hVQPLr9iJCuCegxvG9bipbYBK4Y3FM9s4PwWZBBQAk8FupoaUl_1eQDU/s3890/IMG_7816.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3890" data-original-width="2542" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYTdq_Agr53CFksk6qKRF3mWm0e41iKvn0FUWzmGKuS1SZoxXGR5CwKCQdg3h0kH9_KKgLTkiz8N6lpPqLPg9hVQPLr9iJCuCegxvG9bipbYBK4Y3FM9s4PwWZBBQAk8FupoaUl_1eQDU/s320/IMG_7816.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMpxzeyPKqQ32eYu8GU-zP4Z15oWQuW-5PQhhWkJtCj7QmGTSGZJiOT7ZsJP3CcNgUkfuXUjQPKgRIxQ8S6rWJoBGP7WFqbw0HTpgFm7XaUbp76bhXuAyMysziP-4IXFzwiFIGpvbnhk/s2537/IMG_7826.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1395" data-original-width="2537" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMpxzeyPKqQ32eYu8GU-zP4Z15oWQuW-5PQhhWkJtCj7QmGTSGZJiOT7ZsJP3CcNgUkfuXUjQPKgRIxQ8S6rWJoBGP7WFqbw0HTpgFm7XaUbp76bhXuAyMysziP-4IXFzwiFIGpvbnhk/s320/IMG_7826.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I Don’t Keep My Visions To Myself:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020, Day 31</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Okay, yes, I finished this drawing on November 1st, so in the end, I didn’t manage to complete 31 drawings in 31 days. But let’s just say it’s close enough.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I don’t think the original Ocean Spray/Skateboard/Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” tiktok clip by @420doggface208 was particularly popular at our house, but both our kids and my spouse showed me spin-offs. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I was initially a bit confused by the video clip of a man drinking out of a Titebond glue bottle (The woodworker version). Our younger son showed me the Halloween version by Kiel James Patrick (a clothing company) featuring a pumpkin headed person (wearing a stylish sweater) who pours something in a Starbucks cup (a pumpkin spiced latte, one presumes) onto, and into, his jack o lantern head. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">By then, I had looked up the original bit by a Nathan Apodaca. I observed that the parody videos did not quite have the looseness of the original, or the aesthetically pleasing composition of selfie arm draped in fluid sweatshirt material, so I tried to take the best of each. Minus the wood glue of course (sorry!)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">A belated happy Halloween. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">And, if you are still here, thanks for making it through another Inktober of bad drawings with me!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"><br /></span></p><p> </p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-65904762180616501872020-11-02T10:11:00.003-05:002020-11-02T10:18:21.584-05:00Mouse Centerfuge<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4uy-si6pZ8d6MI0qMfwgMwjEsdzStbSMqG48jTvfyuMqBLYuWrPX8okj3Poh86y7CoNIFPGoSTKYc5CMJSJnEXSeKv7eMYwblmMAuWIqRHJqJ5BmhNKAYd1UfnV5IBrz1Jo-4vS8bS1Y/s3835/747B6D87-E383-41DA-AE68-BAEEAB5C984D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3835" data-original-width="2522" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4uy-si6pZ8d6MI0qMfwgMwjEsdzStbSMqG48jTvfyuMqBLYuWrPX8okj3Poh86y7CoNIFPGoSTKYc5CMJSJnEXSeKv7eMYwblmMAuWIqRHJqJ5BmhNKAYd1UfnV5IBrz1Jo-4vS8bS1Y/s320/747B6D87-E383-41DA-AE68-BAEEAB5C984D.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXG9F42j47sk-W1xtFF5FSHyVYHTsRGgQI1okhKiVheCDQLvwTwyqmAatO4al4d7UbfJzspKpY0QzOwkGdrUHXHGz3byDH1nPqncZHUw0YTLvyq-shUqKLp764W8qZ5oR0EkegynHokpg/s1600/IMG_7821-773386.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1324" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXG9F42j47sk-W1xtFF5FSHyVYHTsRGgQI1okhKiVheCDQLvwTwyqmAatO4al4d7UbfJzspKpY0QzOwkGdrUHXHGz3byDH1nPqncZHUw0YTLvyq-shUqKLp764W8qZ5oR0EkegynHokpg/s320/IMG_7821-773386.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.73px;">Avian Rodent Abuse</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020, Day 30</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Is animal abuse more funny when perpetrated by another animal?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">In this widely viewed clip, a businesslike parrot efficiently picks up a small white mouse, puts it inside a running wheel, and then proceeds to crank the wheel at high speed, effectively centrifuging the rodent. There is definitely no running involved. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Viewer comments argue that the bird has been trained in this nasty behavior. There are other videos of the bird toting the mouse around, and shutting it in its cage, so there does seem to be a generally bossy bird situation. Whether this is a result of human intervention, I really can’t say.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I thought the whole event was a bit hard to see in the video, so I tried to draw it from another perspective. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Ha, ha, perspective, not my strong suit, as you can see here. </span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-39897046099121315092020-11-02T10:05:00.007-05:002020-11-02T10:07:45.425-05:00Perfectly Cut Diet Dog<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjL5FQ78h-vrj0aL5VrnqVGQmeLQ5FnjHYGsuF0cFxdjWWjcMCFIbg5hhoaVbCTc3_aYtSgXqcY1x7g-CDZVihqXyLkHZjgJGlcS3iv8OT5JCLw_ikg5ZjT3FCQlCOdl004wUBCa2U6w/s3825/55A73300-2654-4966-9916-17D045163B3A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3825" data-original-width="2477" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjL5FQ78h-vrj0aL5VrnqVGQmeLQ5FnjHYGsuF0cFxdjWWjcMCFIbg5hhoaVbCTc3_aYtSgXqcY1x7g-CDZVihqXyLkHZjgJGlcS3iv8OT5JCLw_ikg5ZjT3FCQlCOdl004wUBCa2U6w/s320/55A73300-2654-4966-9916-17D045163B3A.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9AYZtrednH9Hsaok4lJYV5ek-blB_bT-MXNziEZprbNU_YmW01JDSx1LlKUbwK9tzdBihyUq5akGXJa8ifjagAlcdqwnL-eIVd5WgrQRJq_QJTkhpjBuXJpFhfAIETIGxCBzT5qVVkek/s1600/IMG_1064-707701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9AYZtrednH9Hsaok4lJYV5ek-blB_bT-MXNziEZprbNU_YmW01JDSx1LlKUbwK9tzdBihyUq5akGXJa8ifjagAlcdqwnL-eIVd5WgrQRJq_QJTkhpjBuXJpFhfAIETIGxCBzT5qVVkek/s320/IMG_1064-707701.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The First Thing You Lose On A Diet Is Your Sense of Humor</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">(even if you are a tiny, fluffy dog)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 29</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">In this video, a Pomeranian watches a human hand deliver a pitiful two bits of kibble to its bowl, looks down at the food, looks back up, arranges its cute features just a little into a scowl, and makes to lunge at the bearer of bad meal tidings.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Perhaps he or she was irritated at obviously being set up for a meme.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-79194101451517848432020-11-02T09:57:00.003-05:002020-12-22T21:10:45.884-05:00Hilarious Kitten Distress<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLO-0BjkzIqoNGQnp7qi75O38-Ko4MtpXzyj64_1-KMh7uVBtPiZZTHvArra1M8obrsnqWjheOuCljXlioPdp0xPX28kGeQ4hd7mQwAcwppqDT6SKFgQOgyTTltyx2yXjfHES3YzjC7AI/s3876/IMG_7790.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3876" data-original-width="2553" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLO-0BjkzIqoNGQnp7qi75O38-Ko4MtpXzyj64_1-KMh7uVBtPiZZTHvArra1M8obrsnqWjheOuCljXlioPdp0xPX28kGeQ4hd7mQwAcwppqDT6SKFgQOgyTTltyx2yXjfHES3YzjC7AI/s320/IMG_7790.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVba4S57K8phvSwRaFX-FjZ4te-KdRbhOrqHZ73cyCvPMEkOBSy7s-dncoFHhg07ZoliekS-H_gw0pRdmkn2JeojgAa2gBX0qhr7KP1Wmx7S_SGjCx-QXlVuhwgHgyfih3kwbzhZp8XB8/s3561/IMG_7792.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1846" data-original-width="3561" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVba4S57K8phvSwRaFX-FjZ4te-KdRbhOrqHZ73cyCvPMEkOBSy7s-dncoFHhg07ZoliekS-H_gw0pRdmkn2JeojgAa2gBX0qhr7KP1Wmx7S_SGjCx-QXlVuhwgHgyfih3kwbzhZp8XB8/s320/IMG_7792.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Continuing to Fill The Cat Quota:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020, Day 28</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The urban legend in the early days of the Internet was that the web was 15% pictures of cats. I seem to remember that statistic was disproved, but...depending on the day, it can seem like an underestimate.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">This one, “Unhappy Kitten” comes to our family from @perfectlycutscreams which is is both a social media account and a genre. The unifying characteristic is of course that the video ends with a cut off scream. The unhappy kitten might not be in fact a perfect instance of the category as there is a scream in the middle also..... but it’s got a kitten!</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-29009233586975818682020-11-02T09:48:00.004-05:002020-12-22T21:11:34.573-05:00Motorcycle Fail/ Not Fail<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-UftlCEumMbROnjVt81rdw7vCub4_Xkx9qgBqLOiJoK-IXUJ44VvquvpEKvNV6iojcrUyEvcCJcoJB9UtxlHSWiBb0UQoqiIBY9E8kuOiJ3FQRxY3tNSJXzJ4aNBpBE0Ekh8pSnN3x4/s3883/383BFDF2-EB55-4527-AD4F-8BFFDA59F59A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3883" data-original-width="2543" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-UftlCEumMbROnjVt81rdw7vCub4_Xkx9qgBqLOiJoK-IXUJ44VvquvpEKvNV6iojcrUyEvcCJcoJB9UtxlHSWiBb0UQoqiIBY9E8kuOiJ3FQRxY3tNSJXzJ4aNBpBE0Ekh8pSnN3x4/s320/383BFDF2-EB55-4527-AD4F-8BFFDA59F59A.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj43GDP_yIbxiJV9NoB3OupQa3vu9KPsLLojee2BXdmPbYZ5nz5xQ9N2yBeRL5osFp2GyEGXD5Ca09F1ObFYUSLxjYqFEANiPUpSZj-PU11y7LmRkXiPtIAL5B9Ic0PGQnVz-jFpkUJAUk/s2750/IMG_7759.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2750" data-original-width="1130" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj43GDP_yIbxiJV9NoB3OupQa3vu9KPsLLojee2BXdmPbYZ5nz5xQ9N2yBeRL5osFp2GyEGXD5Ca09F1ObFYUSLxjYqFEANiPUpSZj-PU11y7LmRkXiPtIAL5B9Ic0PGQnVz-jFpkUJAUk/s320/IMG_7759.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Any Crash You Can Walk Away From:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 27</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">We like to watch video clips of people performing amazing feats. The ones that are shown to me by family members usually involve an element of danger- mountain biking near a precipitous drop, or performing amazing parkour leaps. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">And of course we also like to watch other people fall off things, get hit by things and generally have dreadful accidents.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">And then there is the happy combination of an accident, and a physical feat. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">In this particular clip, a shirtless man successfully rides a motorcycle over a series of barrels, only to flip over the handle bars when he reaches the grass on the other side. But then he is back up, as if gracefully lifted by wires, to casually walk away, looking as if it were all just a planned part of the trick.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">If only all motorcycle spills were so elegant and injury free.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-4578158211995413142020-10-27T22:22:00.001-04:002020-10-27T22:22:05.657-04:00Massive Feline<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQrN0BFAkw6PNCHYOK0yq_G6rBZJTiNtOyE9d9akmAgIrAAcd4-DmAdr980VWj16CuM8ljwAVT-4Jf3lcxI9zdErnKmeNTxQ2mpFvz912dRfRJe8p4kDJLYPHIbGHceU74oFyqsIK9PU/s3885/IMG_7740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3885" data-original-width="2596" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQrN0BFAkw6PNCHYOK0yq_G6rBZJTiNtOyE9d9akmAgIrAAcd4-DmAdr980VWj16CuM8ljwAVT-4Jf3lcxI9zdErnKmeNTxQ2mpFvz912dRfRJe8p4kDJLYPHIbGHceU74oFyqsIK9PU/s320/IMG_7740.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiImxBfWaosJsgXh07wVZthxJdSN1tZ9gUVRXbDp2kKu9cVzsr235jQj4jgnj4tP0iK28q4-Ssu63-0YPnQ4vu1ngkvKXm_UXIcDxfS-0_ygqUa6Sp4vdXqMzV3j1Y9aIRjHqRC2w2SUrc/s3057/IMG_7743.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2626" data-original-width="3057" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiImxBfWaosJsgXh07wVZthxJdSN1tZ9gUVRXbDp2kKu9cVzsr235jQj4jgnj4tP0iK28q4-Ssu63-0YPnQ4vu1ngkvKXm_UXIcDxfS-0_ygqUa6Sp4vdXqMzV3j1Y9aIRjHqRC2w2SUrc/w200-h172/IMG_7743.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The Internet Adds 15 Pounds</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Inktober 2020, Day 26:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I have neglected to mention another favorite category of animal videos: the huge, the massively rotund, or the generally fat. Why are obese animals so compelling? I can’t begin to attempt to explain.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">But I have not done this particularly epic feline justice.</span></p><p><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-29424383931390826832020-10-27T22:16:00.000-04:002020-10-27T22:16:00.410-04:00Always Has Been <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyxm6NTWmTK2G8gM5QJC-ok1mjj74Q11CWMgWv32EGLWqf83ypnPjUBiLzWHHv5OgvajfX3zZwaQpU42PrpoqrRjeHoNGXagcvSZq2hUdd8YCFyVIXLqPicjK4Nvj4sGoFGxb1L34NF8/s3856/IMG_7671.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3856" data-original-width="2474" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyxm6NTWmTK2G8gM5QJC-ok1mjj74Q11CWMgWv32EGLWqf83ypnPjUBiLzWHHv5OgvajfX3zZwaQpU42PrpoqrRjeHoNGXagcvSZq2hUdd8YCFyVIXLqPicjK4Nvj4sGoFGxb1L34NF8/s320/IMG_7671.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqCkE_rqr23JMZToVuNwqg2un-Px80gTbL8it5KJBz5eEDcU_hd0yONDmq6_Vi6Gs_11ipX8DvKTOivU5X70H-d40-pP_nqcG-r-SErY_7e7cQDHB4VlBPwcbHq9J6fG85xvWt8NU17c/s2449/IMG_7675.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2449" data-original-width="1448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqCkE_rqr23JMZToVuNwqg2un-Px80gTbL8it5KJBz5eEDcU_hd0yONDmq6_Vi6Gs_11ipX8DvKTOivU5X70H-d40-pP_nqcG-r-SErY_7e7cQDHB4VlBPwcbHq9J6fG85xvWt8NU17c/s320/IMG_7675.JPG" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Wait, It’s All Doge?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Inktober 2020, Day 25</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I can’t say this image came directly to me from our sons, rather the two precursors did. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">One son showed me a descendant of the “Wait, It’s All Ohio?” meme template. In the original....(if there is an actual point of origin) Two astronauts look at the earth. One says, “Wait, it’s all...?” The other one prepares to shoot him, replying, “Always has been.” Ohio can be replaced by other countries, a hat, chicken tenders, or...Doge.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The Doge meme proliferation was so, well profuse, that I was aware of it years back. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If it needs explaining, I will only note the high points: pictures of a particular Shibu Inu dog, pidgin English statements in neon comic sans font, and a dysfunctional internet currency, Dogecoin, which is now, more or less worthless.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">But suddenly, Doge memes are back. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Our son showed me one recently which perplexingly involved horniness and several other things that I could not possibly retain, or unpack here if I could.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Maybe it’s not all entirely Doge, but it seems like it could be at any moment.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-55756224739777262682020-10-26T16:47:00.001-04:002020-10-26T16:47:51.051-04:00No No Drawing<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">No No, Don’t Draw That There:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 24</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">(Still lagging behind, I know)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">As usual, this meme features the confluence of two things that I did not know anything about. Our son showed me a clip of a strange avatar with what appeared to be brushes protruding from his head. He is sitting (sort of, the rendering makes him part of the chair) on a rooftop, chanting, “No no, don’t touch me there. This is my no no square.” </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">A similar figure walks up to him and picks up his chair, screaming, “Fuck your No No Square!” and flings him off the roof.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Apparently the “No no Square” song was released in 2008 to work against sexual abuse- the square in question referring to a body area. It was repurposed by multiple TikTokers in 2012. This particular video comes from a bit recorded in VRChat, a free to play, massively multiplayer online virtual reality social platform (according to Wikipedia)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">That information did not really help me to understand the appeal or the humor, but there it is.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Definitely an opportunity for proving that my drawing is no better than a crappy video still, though.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-35080757704066590062020-10-26T16:09:00.001-04:002020-10-26T16:09:07.852-04:00Cruciferous Induced Gagging<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxCAR5lLMJriXkNNpx1-kpIHq1KTrSisYsdPPyD_DaLatxanK1DdYMfBZUWR6uXu2EkEjf3z5KVGP0ODYZxODO4cMFQu5uXB-sSZeU-cmNjv9QR2lzh1F6ShIUH_ClmIb0_V6Dc_9bjbU/s3909/385A1F17-1773-426E-A04B-2286C290B134.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3909" data-original-width="2554" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxCAR5lLMJriXkNNpx1-kpIHq1KTrSisYsdPPyD_DaLatxanK1DdYMfBZUWR6uXu2EkEjf3z5KVGP0ODYZxODO4cMFQu5uXB-sSZeU-cmNjv9QR2lzh1F6ShIUH_ClmIb0_V6Dc_9bjbU/s320/385A1F17-1773-426E-A04B-2286C290B134.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUlUPAh8IP8TCMaXZs-2ow0Cm29WkqdZGF8qDuTmnWsa6XwCGUfB93_STLKgPbjJc_fiUYv_jB-RgKGzeHcBWkzN3eB_Ys5MLH3HebS1U1lljmU3W669LvaZV7yjSqVRnfddOJ35sRujA/s2208/IMG_0959.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="940" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUlUPAh8IP8TCMaXZs-2ow0Cm29WkqdZGF8qDuTmnWsa6XwCGUfB93_STLKgPbjJc_fiUYv_jB-RgKGzeHcBWkzN3eB_Ys5MLH3HebS1U1lljmU3W669LvaZV7yjSqVRnfddOJ35sRujA/s320/IMG_0959.PNG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Cats Gagging at the Smell of Broccoli</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 23</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">...And apparently, other cruciferous vegetables, citrus, and, at least in one case, the scent of a newborn human’s head, can prompt an extreme gagging reaction in cats.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">As cats are obligate carnivores, it is not surprising that they would be repelled by fruits and vegetables. (The infant is more of a mystery)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Having lived with several cats before I married a man who was seriously allergic to them, I can report that they do have a special talent for gagging. And back in the dim dark days before YouTube, it would never have occurred to me that waving a broccoli floret under our pet’s nose would be a path to internet fame.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-20960318706769631302020-10-26T15:42:00.001-04:002020-10-26T15:42:09.089-04:00Great flamethrower! Where can I get one?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5sAm-_L8HwqKPG5JcpasCs9amjp_4cqubjbb4alUfh85ZuqkbVR3vPghUqIi9En4NGIB74Y5B13Cm0X7f3_UaKV2dFUgYAuHObB5lF1EX6_83cOqE-M4PjN9CFnYPxt1wx0Xj2tHs1KM/s3832/B4E45154-D4E0-4833-9BBE-6E7FA91E121C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3832" data-original-width="2510" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5sAm-_L8HwqKPG5JcpasCs9amjp_4cqubjbb4alUfh85ZuqkbVR3vPghUqIi9En4NGIB74Y5B13Cm0X7f3_UaKV2dFUgYAuHObB5lF1EX6_83cOqE-M4PjN9CFnYPxt1wx0Xj2tHs1KM/s320/B4E45154-D4E0-4833-9BBE-6E7FA91E121C.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq2ktcYQOWxqSaqI5VIQQb8etMRfPJbdtML9ThJRT4MYEILULcwM0smxNV1wTXy6Sc_ux8m8aWX71Q0mqpb1o1j74o-fkHVVgHNrTILYCnXtrwNP-nwwq0OQaReKsho_Xazq-FJTk7BEg/s2530/IMG_7585.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2530" data-original-width="1568" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq2ktcYQOWxqSaqI5VIQQb8etMRfPJbdtML9ThJRT4MYEILULcwM0smxNV1wTXy6Sc_ux8m8aWX71Q0mqpb1o1j74o-fkHVVgHNrTILYCnXtrwNP-nwwq0OQaReKsho_Xazq-FJTk7BEg/s320/IMG_7585.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The Gayest Flamethrower You Have Ever Seen:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 22</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">This clip has been around since 2016, but my older son was enjoying it enough recently to show it to me. I thought it looked like it came from a movie, but couldn’t place it immediately. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A disheveled man sitting on a bus suddenly jumps up and yells out the bus window in Russian, “Great Jacket! Where can I get one?” at a man who appears to be wearing a top made of mirror shards. The mirrored man responds promptly by shouldering a flame thrower and setting the bus on fire.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The clip is easily found online by searching for ‘Great Jacket’.... or by the preceding line delivered in English by the same character, “That has got to be the gayest jacket I have ever seen!” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One can also discover that the clip comes from the 2016 Russian film, “Hardcore Henry.” </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I remember how much our younger son wanted to see the movie when it was released. It is essentially a feature length first person shooter, filmed by literally strapping the camera to the central character’s face. Henry is relatively inactive in these few seconds of film, but for the rest of the movie he is shooting, punching, jumping, running, or blowing things up nearly incessantly. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I don’t think I have the stamina to make it through the entire movie, so I cannot explain the reason or the sexual orientation behind the mirrored jacket. But it is an incongruous moment in the movie, perfectly suited to memehood.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-52975207716825515092020-10-26T15:24:00.007-04:002020-10-26T15:42:40.713-04:00Suggestive Hand Gestures<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoE6mGFqdtcKQQ76AQw6QU-HzgTg0lKrA-8QRiumAT46fJI4DN0VyCExnV46bm4638Kt4pQnUKOrcSotKa8rkbHQaJ6cWDkAD1zuCvNq7fQ5ipxzzn9BQZRQW2xf9ffWeta4THAm2WvXs/s3897/IMG_0936.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3897" data-original-width="2557" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoE6mGFqdtcKQQ76AQw6QU-HzgTg0lKrA-8QRiumAT46fJI4DN0VyCExnV46bm4638Kt4pQnUKOrcSotKa8rkbHQaJ6cWDkAD1zuCvNq7fQ5ipxzzn9BQZRQW2xf9ffWeta4THAm2WvXs/s320/IMG_0936.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-iCKnbm_05mJVGmDmp6aD0790k2KQvOVg2nbY3WwWlfoJ-O8gHv96aEhLxKzztN3aoL1fhqKn4tZYT8sMqEnH7xCxIPyS97Ww_mDw_gzeFbFD_ljVUamdlfq9DtTMC06oGaNsGw6SDA/s1988/IMG_0938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1988" data-original-width="1464" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-iCKnbm_05mJVGmDmp6aD0790k2KQvOVg2nbY3WwWlfoJ-O8gHv96aEhLxKzztN3aoL1fhqKn4tZYT8sMqEnH7xCxIPyS97Ww_mDw_gzeFbFD_ljVUamdlfq9DtTMC06oGaNsGw6SDA/w148-h200/IMG_0938.JPG" width="148" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.73px;">Trump Plays The Accordion</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">(Or Maybe the Concertina) </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 21</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Huw Parkinson’s videos of Donald Trump apparently yanking an accordion back and forth while delivering speeches were in broad circulation back in January of 2017. But sadly, our kids did not bring them to my attention until relatively recently. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Once one has had it pointed out that Mr. Trump repeatedly makes peculiar hand gestures that positively beg for the addition of a cartoon squeeze box, it is very hard to unsee it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was on the lookout for the gesture during last night’s debate, and was not disappointed. It is good to have something to occupy one’s attentions besides what is actually being said.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">In the past, anything remotely approaching a political commentary here has been received with a fair amount of negative blowback. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Our younger son would like me to remind you that, during a Star Wars / Politicians series of napkins, after I drew Trump next to Jar Jar Binks, one commenter posted that the only way to appropriately even the score would be to draw Obama next to Satan. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Perhaps I should draw Biden with an appropriate musical instrument? Or a Star</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Wars character?<br /><br /></span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-36589230940101784812020-10-26T15:04:00.001-04:002020-10-26T15:04:33.273-04:00Lumberjack Fail<p> <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFJr0vLAqLgg9Ohb4A8bL3glXTvWcwNV6At_3aSJ3H8ahsDEOc1lPTdZGOzlS83K5I-jOOCH3nav8PO2U2npaHC5IJ6TqtMibAwIZjnwUpumajpFBCKwYYGKSNvC_bSXTjtYLfaxqCSQo/s3873/IMG_0921.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3873" data-original-width="2550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFJr0vLAqLgg9Ohb4A8bL3glXTvWcwNV6At_3aSJ3H8ahsDEOc1lPTdZGOzlS83K5I-jOOCH3nav8PO2U2npaHC5IJ6TqtMibAwIZjnwUpumajpFBCKwYYGKSNvC_bSXTjtYLfaxqCSQo/s320/IMG_0921.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixE8QXquRfI2EFIMA6kJPAKACyFWf8f5DR23TOsJ30I7K7qANRmPQzE3xKh0VHN3Jxiq1-336bmq5t-GNg4QUJKziF2cfaGQG43EXGyBIhd7FtyvFRHF43-qZNVJLaD6gBldS2MJ5CQAs/s2764/IMG_0925.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2764" data-original-width="842" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixE8QXquRfI2EFIMA6kJPAKACyFWf8f5DR23TOsJ30I7K7qANRmPQzE3xKh0VHN3Jxiq1-336bmq5t-GNg4QUJKziF2cfaGQG43EXGyBIhd7FtyvFRHF43-qZNVJLaD6gBldS2MJ5CQAs/s320/IMG_0925.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Workplace Fails: The Graceful Lumberjack Edition</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 20</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Most of the videos for the Inktober series were brought to my attention by our kids, but I thought I should give my spouse a chance to select. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He is partial to the #OSHAisthisok genre of humorous workplace accidents. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Many of the situations are based on astoundingly bad judgement and poor understanding of the mechanics of the physical world : ladders on top of ladders on top of joint compound buckets, opening beer bottles with angle grinders, tipping over ridiculously top-heavy forklifts, backing excavators into bodies of water, etc, and the ensuing accidents seem well deserved. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Others involve substantial and cringe-inducing injuries that seem undeserved even by unsafe idiots. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">This particular example hails from the @lumberjack_daily account, and features a remarkably graceful back flip performed by the lumberjack as the large tree he just cut take out the platform he was standing on. Having looked carefully at the video, I am reasonably certain that his chainsaw landed safely far away, so hopefully there was not any serious injury.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-89880682670780956102020-10-26T14:50:00.001-04:002020-10-26T14:50:01.859-04:00Silly Rabbit<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMQ10gvAN20HgQJ74vFuGpiOnEEg09nKJiQ2IFMNpYu0Fe5FXLOzGH_wjxSOblbZjC3Ij0GfmfbsMBcNm4MBUGMdksXoqzW2N0gCqCgEcG1zclAn0jO858TH25YqBwo6XUZrJmO_HzK8g/s3951/IMG_7528.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3951" data-original-width="2573" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMQ10gvAN20HgQJ74vFuGpiOnEEg09nKJiQ2IFMNpYu0Fe5FXLOzGH_wjxSOblbZjC3Ij0GfmfbsMBcNm4MBUGMdksXoqzW2N0gCqCgEcG1zclAn0jO858TH25YqBwo6XUZrJmO_HzK8g/s320/IMG_7528.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcLNW0BNpMpu_xk7YgqwRQn1McfvozyZ26NsQA4gpwkQCxBPuJMOql0Eg9Tms2IqGQCWEG9Kd_UZr3BHc9Mm5ebN3Qzb1dnjLHFhUBCBjxlvc3tn-wvNR6h3AUEDhe2703RqqhSD2ecc/s2433/IMG_7530.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2433" data-original-width="909" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcLNW0BNpMpu_xk7YgqwRQn1McfvozyZ26NsQA4gpwkQCxBPuJMOql0Eg9Tms2IqGQCWEG9Kd_UZr3BHc9Mm5ebN3Qzb1dnjLHFhUBCBjxlvc3tn-wvNR6h3AUEDhe2703RqqhSD2ecc/s320/IMG_7530.JPG" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Rabbits Falling Off Furniture</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Belated Inktober 2020 Day 19</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Our son showed me a clip a couple times of a rabbit trying to scramble onto a table top to get at some suspiciously pink balls (rabbit snacks?) only to scurry, slip and catastrophically pull the place mat, many little pink balls, and a bowl off of the table with him.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">When I went looking for the clip online tonight (scraping the bottom of the meme video barrel I am) I discovered there is a wide assortment of videos of rabbits falling of things. This is of course also true of cats and dogs...and well, people. That doesn’t really need to be said. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This particular clip appears to be the most popular in the falling rabbit category. At the moment anyway.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I am still exploring how bad my Inktober drawings can be....only 12 more to go. I keep hoping that I will somehow pass through the badness into something interesting, but ....maybe not holding my breath at this point.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-43604916606644211412020-10-26T14:14:00.005-04:002020-10-26T15:43:06.635-04:00Frenetic Biting<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1arLEznXZoGlTYu6XRKuA6EXS_hmFzx61B-FAxPVIXP_vKc5TyJ9QJfjWiDRnLtYCEBG_-0eHZEtpErv1PRFH0FeudgxLUKNfz9eS9tlxImorqB6TMfwld_Kub2KMU6YTijWpX1vdoWI/s3855/B7590DCC-036E-4612-8AB5-1926735B9630.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3855" data-original-width="2570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1arLEznXZoGlTYu6XRKuA6EXS_hmFzx61B-FAxPVIXP_vKc5TyJ9QJfjWiDRnLtYCEBG_-0eHZEtpErv1PRFH0FeudgxLUKNfz9eS9tlxImorqB6TMfwld_Kub2KMU6YTijWpX1vdoWI/s320/B7590DCC-036E-4612-8AB5-1926735B9630.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLr8ZafJtdACY6pO-CVkxJUehM66U51mtReN95mA88ZrxW_IjAMA6_KxSqzyYrJiRRHHMjJ1sQeUZv5_VN-tEdoutDqOun0JadBaCCQT8K1uihmVz2KbmuZs1kOe4cuPIHZ92iDoK53Wk/s1044/IMG_7473.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="643" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLr8ZafJtdACY6pO-CVkxJUehM66U51mtReN95mA88ZrxW_IjAMA6_KxSqzyYrJiRRHHMjJ1sQeUZv5_VN-tEdoutDqOun0JadBaCCQT8K1uihmVz2KbmuZs1kOe4cuPIHZ92iDoK53Wk/s320/IMG_7473.PNG" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Comically Hostile Pets: Part Two</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 18</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">(Yes, two days behind now)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Our older son initially showed me a clip that he found terribly amusing of a guy trying to pick up a hissing, biting cat while wearing oven mitts. Subsequent videos show the cat, Sir Pounce, being held by the often oven-mittless poster of the videos, Carson. There is sudden maniacally intense biting interspersed with glassy eyed stares on the part of the cat. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">After watching more than one of the videos in the Carson/Sir Pounce oeuvre, one does start to consider whether the cat’s hostility is perhaps not completely undeserved. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Based on Mister Bubz’s example, clearly an amusingly belligerent pet can be an internet bonus... (there are mugs and t-shirts. Maybe trademark management will be forthcoming)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Could there be a chance that an enterprising individual might want to cultivate nastiness in their companion animal?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Perhaps Sir Pounce is truly enjoying the opportunity to repeatedly bite Carson. No blood seems to be drawn, which makes me wonder how serious the attacks are.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But it might be possible that I have already spent too much time thinking about this.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-81246221689745727032020-10-26T14:02:00.002-04:002020-10-26T16:10:10.195-04:00Mister Bubz is Bipolar<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBs46EQtznkHNdaXqyE5oQZBYJ-2ICkp2IUtPYpuitDEHYAhnD1swzFupD6sX-o72bQo_f-oEBv_CbcVQ_yAK07E2ILBwc_JF3-qhgn6qL_MF0_B7E5U2g2fBTNNcuC8bsBcxZtG5wBEg/s3943/IMG_0825.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3943" data-original-width="2641" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBs46EQtznkHNdaXqyE5oQZBYJ-2ICkp2IUtPYpuitDEHYAhnD1swzFupD6sX-o72bQo_f-oEBv_CbcVQ_yAK07E2ILBwc_JF3-qhgn6qL_MF0_B7E5U2g2fBTNNcuC8bsBcxZtG5wBEg/s320/IMG_0825.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvWTYbljr7rAwgGxRRgYPTskoFVOFaLVUdhWv2LYJCkD7Y8uThmN24nqUUjw5WlCW5t6AYByjCbkBbyGlFB1PvXwzTB1oiOAqGgKtWXk7_HwNb-n82LLyBtNygMr-knlV0mmvRN03oNmg/s1161/IMG_7394.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvWTYbljr7rAwgGxRRgYPTskoFVOFaLVUdhWv2LYJCkD7Y8uThmN24nqUUjw5WlCW5t6AYByjCbkBbyGlFB1PvXwzTB1oiOAqGgKtWXk7_HwNb-n82LLyBtNygMr-knlV0mmvRN03oNmg/s320/IMG_7394.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Sometimes It Pays To Be An Asshole:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">(At Least If You Are A Cute Dog on the Internet)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 17:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">(Yes, I am already running a day late)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Mister Bubz is not really a meme or a cursed image, so he is a bit of break from the Inktober theme thus far. But let’s say that his role as a canine web influencer and “the angriest dog on the internet,” makes him meme-adjacent, and maybe even cursed-adjacent.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">His constant growling also makes him a thematic relative of the earlier internet-famous screaming pugs, dogs who are similarly cute and awful simultaneously.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But I don’t think the screaming pugs ever worked with the trademark team that also represents Britany Spears, or were invited to Ozzy Osbourne’s 70th birthday as Mister Bubz was.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Though I don’t know that for a fact.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-51638846066257266372020-10-26T13:57:00.000-04:002020-10-26T13:57:10.744-04:00Banana and Accordian<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcroJCcvFBOBRHebR8_VSt2RNvnjL4Cb3qJxfFoDJ6vhrNOE4-m8miEodGqIfBl_uvbGwozDRNwvmVw3-vmNoVtz2J4WmkQByIuGjd41paJvVt1uCjFIzDA81tJLJRaZdWEDeJo1fWnAM/s3901/41F40A7C-8AF6-4081-A3A0-3E7146DBECD4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3901" data-original-width="2591" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcroJCcvFBOBRHebR8_VSt2RNvnjL4Cb3qJxfFoDJ6vhrNOE4-m8miEodGqIfBl_uvbGwozDRNwvmVw3-vmNoVtz2J4WmkQByIuGjd41paJvVt1uCjFIzDA81tJLJRaZdWEDeJo1fWnAM/s320/41F40A7C-8AF6-4081-A3A0-3E7146DBECD4.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9tVIqlU50RN0dW6cPSfgpaMCS8ueCU0Xm5EphyOoLI_2GqsHfJiSW0gP5-mzBU8VVuSVyCms011cerAYMKX8Wwik09rrXh64MBlEvaiSrRKfbJyr6oeyKJ4-JA9nYa3X7AVk2DBXER2s/s2330/IMG_7439.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2330" data-original-width="1112" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9tVIqlU50RN0dW6cPSfgpaMCS8ueCU0Xm5EphyOoLI_2GqsHfJiSW0gP5-mzBU8VVuSVyCms011cerAYMKX8Wwik09rrXh64MBlEvaiSrRKfbJyr6oeyKJ4-JA9nYa3X7AVk2DBXER2s/s320/IMG_7439.JPG" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Funnier Than Slipping on a Banana Peel?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 16</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Today’s video is a return to the “it is fun to watch other people have accidents...even in some circumstances, children” genre.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The video title is “Kid Dresses as banana, plays the accordion on a swing and fucking dies.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">I guess it is also part of the videos with titles that include the word “fuck” genre. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The kid in question really just falls backwards off the swing.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">In this case, I suppose the convergence of banana costume, accordion and accident creates a viewing experience that millions of people want to see.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Like most of these video clips, the resolution is incredibly low and the images is almost unintelligible as a still. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am realizing my choice of Inktober project has landed dead center in my drawing weak spot: I don’t do so well when I don’t have anything to look at. Maybe this is a good thing?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But probably not.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-38898019405541596202020-10-26T13:31:00.004-04:002020-10-26T13:39:09.018-04:00Pug Screams At God?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOj7weRsCJTSnnEBhB_4PMnEVVIFHz4H6sbiBUQyCRUeZ_Xb5lCx1vj4hh82mUvaEBPANwvPr0hmumMG77ViFFojKiVoCMjEipFBFS7_KILZsKbPdBKqQfffbpVkkrAzji6TmkRYqpUbQ/s3933/CE9FF7F9-FD0A-4AA6-804F-C56526D628B1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3933" data-original-width="2531" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOj7weRsCJTSnnEBhB_4PMnEVVIFHz4H6sbiBUQyCRUeZ_Xb5lCx1vj4hh82mUvaEBPANwvPr0hmumMG77ViFFojKiVoCMjEipFBFS7_KILZsKbPdBKqQfffbpVkkrAzji6TmkRYqpUbQ/s320/CE9FF7F9-FD0A-4AA6-804F-C56526D628B1.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_nYpW-JBRF2c0c-7UpYQ27BNm6cAN3oE9u36a-5ETirXg0t_HCL9K0UXXgz81E1Kdu3sfDhOdGvJjsoXkg_iID7-R9alnStZxKsbIvTgFUdizV8YHjpD6KBdVvhn_ir1taIAyvabP3U/s1429/IMG_7428.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="1429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_nYpW-JBRF2c0c-7UpYQ27BNm6cAN3oE9u36a-5ETirXg0t_HCL9K0UXXgz81E1Kdu3sfDhOdGvJjsoXkg_iID7-R9alnStZxKsbIvTgFUdizV8YHjpD6KBdVvhn_ir1taIAyvabP3U/s320/IMG_7428.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">God Is Dead.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But We Have Screaming Pugs.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 15</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">There are a lot of videos of pugs making noises that one might consider paying money not to hear. But judging by the millions of views, there seems to be something redeeming in the awfulness.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">This choice video “Pug Party God Is Dead,” features a woman repeatedly announcing in a sing-song voice, “Pug Party?!” </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The pug responds with enthusiastic, but utterly horrifying wails. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Superimposed on the screen are words and phrases like, “END MY SUFFERING,” “PLEASE FUCKING KILL ME” “FUUUCK,” and of course, “GOD IS DEAD” </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Because pugs do like their <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nietzsche references. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">My suspicion is that the screaming pug thing was mostly popular some years back, but this particular video <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was reposted recently and caught one of our sons’ attention. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">It is oddly appropriate for 2020. Though I can’t really explain why.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But I am always happy to draw a pug, particularly one on a red and green rug.</span></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-12181313724651737722020-10-26T13:24:00.002-04:002020-10-26T13:24:18.025-04:00Kermitting <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuOaY_tlCau94OvLc3ZbDCVYqPXJvSNQ_zIGxlqC8IjU8pj4UtDt0CHCTSuWVdto11jiCiAihk9r2YcLmtj65pw0GYSp97QF5bzjGWc9B58CYMVyugjDEHP0AHJ2hL8L-Vcfu0xLIdU5o/s3826/15459D1D-6C8B-4A91-9BBA-222404BE933C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3826" data-original-width="2562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuOaY_tlCau94OvLc3ZbDCVYqPXJvSNQ_zIGxlqC8IjU8pj4UtDt0CHCTSuWVdto11jiCiAihk9r2YcLmtj65pw0GYSp97QF5bzjGWc9B58CYMVyugjDEHP0AHJ2hL8L-Vcfu0xLIdU5o/s320/15459D1D-6C8B-4A91-9BBA-222404BE933C.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuqVpewMa9zJPrjkA9oA2DU7z1LbJn_5Q2kPJOx5S6Ez0Had94X5Wa-deovCmGFMDL8lfLGivtOVF5RLSTAFkbdem5bp7VjI0c0Ek1Vp3HvPv4VrUIe_9TsRPTY_-hz7wQOpwRqA2GqMs/s1137/IMG_7305.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="1137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuqVpewMa9zJPrjkA9oA2DU7z1LbJn_5Q2kPJOx5S6Ez0Had94X5Wa-deovCmGFMDL8lfLGivtOVF5RLSTAFkbdem5bp7VjI0c0Ek1Vp3HvPv4VrUIe_9TsRPTY_-hz7wQOpwRqA2GqMs/s320/IMG_7305.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Kermit Kermits</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 14:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The Kermit memes are legion. Our kids weren’t that interested in Sesame Street and didn’t spend much time with the frog in early childhood, so he doesn’t have a lot of extra appeal for them as a meme character. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But the meme subgenres of Sad Kermit or self-harm Kermit are somehow compelling. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">This video in particular, where first we see Kermit’s hand(?) playing the first few notes of “Another One Bites The Dust” on a piano, but he is singing instead: “I really just want to die...” The next image is of him swinging from a noose in a bedroom, with an Elmo in the background. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Why is this so hysterically funny? </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Really, I am asking. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">There is of course <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the “Kermit Suicide” angle. Previously, more than one video like “I am going to Kermit Suicide” in which the frog throws himself off a building, received millions of views.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">If Cookie Monster hanged himself, it just wouldn’t be as hilarious, would it?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Would it?</span></p></div>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3999626174158894215.post-13618282447540923542020-10-26T13:14:00.001-04:002020-10-26T13:14:02.322-04:00Hi Herbert<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNyEamEiZJrhUfliK8PSXqvZRxrnXrTw560kZlCOy3HbKy2vWnd_YTlQYU_N-ph05Ij0altmq6arNoZRv81Xc_lIpoyul5anQzoVyuWNWNnh_ZoSLFmbv430oePtzxzl1QY9pjYEdUt4/s3914/IMG_0790.TIF" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3914" data-original-width="2479" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNyEamEiZJrhUfliK8PSXqvZRxrnXrTw560kZlCOy3HbKy2vWnd_YTlQYU_N-ph05Ij0altmq6arNoZRv81Xc_lIpoyul5anQzoVyuWNWNnh_ZoSLFmbv430oePtzxzl1QY9pjYEdUt4/s320/IMG_0790.TIF" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmN4TUqWWxZ4RAg6OZHv4WlZ6H7LCWbgew0g-twtjqm-UUKZHlrPi-UYx1ROPWwYzjh12rEatjHUxyd4PHpJIlQV5m-PKkGGsRaoQVGT8Mxstk3NdGyHWoFwV-uftksgqJbqm4t7cf9KU/s1129/IMG_7382.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="675" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmN4TUqWWxZ4RAg6OZHv4WlZ6H7LCWbgew0g-twtjqm-UUKZHlrPi-UYx1ROPWwYzjh12rEatjHUxyd4PHpJIlQV5m-PKkGGsRaoQVGT8Mxstk3NdGyHWoFwV-uftksgqJbqm4t7cf9KU/s320/IMG_7382.PNG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Herbert Says Many Things,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">But I am not sure what.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Inktober 2020 Day 13</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">The original video clip from May 2020 features a woman saying “Hi Herbert,” and a white kitten responding with a cute high pitched squeak. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">It was very straightforward and only a couple of seconds long, but so inspiring of hundreds of other versions. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Herbert’s squeak has been replaced with screams, fog horns, guitar chords, etc. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">This meme is spliced with dozens of others that I can only guess at. There are several “Hi Herbert” compilations that are testaments of the ingenuity of people who perhaps have nothing better to do?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-size: 19.73px;">Apparently I had nothing better to do than to make a bad drawing of Herbert, so I am definitely not judging.</span></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>ninalevyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122977612922492686noreply@blogger.com0