
I just have a lot going on. Working full time at weird hours, and editing my newest novel, which is almost done… so now I need to start doing the cover art… and I am going to do that right here!!!

I just have a lot going on. Working full time at weird hours, and editing my newest novel, which is almost done… so now I need to start doing the cover art… and I am going to do that right here!!!

See, the cartoon me used to have brown hair, and a goatee. The new cartoon me reflects the changes that are happening to me in real life.

The young cartoon me was a wild and crazy guy…

Especially when I messed with him… me… in Photoshop. Hey, don’t judge me, I made that version for a very specific blog post about an important social issue… which I can’t remember right now.

The new cartoon me is still pretty weird… and will get weirder as I mess with me… him… in Photoshop.

The new me… both cartoon and meat version… is a little more insecure, a little more needy.

But I have not given up on my evil plan to conquer the world through the clever use of a humor blog.

… I also have Photoshop, so I can do anything I can think of with the cartoon me’s…

Also, just for the record, and in case you haven’t been keeping up, my hair is grayer now, and shorter, and I don’t have the goatee… so this little guy actually looks exactly like me…

As you can plainly see, from this much more recent photo… ooooohhhh…. that gives me an idea… I am going to try to recreate photos of myself looking just like my cartoon me!!! Oh yeah!

Look what I made!!! I am going to name him Donald Dump!!!


Hey, I know, but I was vacuuming the floor the other day, a regular occurrence with two dogs and a cat, and right before I sucked it up, I spotted this dead mosquito hawk. (no, I don’t know why they call them that, they don’t eat mosquitoes, and they don’t look like hawks, and they are pretty big)…

And I got that cool digital microscope for Christmas…

And I figured, why not?

Nature is always interesting.

Even when it is slightly disgusting.

And it is fun to get up close and personal with mother nature.

Uh… that is the very end of its tail… or abdomen… or thorax… or whatever.

I guess the wings are the part I like best.

Yeah, the wings.

Oh, I almost forgot… the microscope can zoom down to an even closer level of focus…

Well, that just ruins it. Hairs on the wing membranes? Eeeew.

But I am really glad I am not the size of an insect.