Chris and I are doing Thanksgiving on our own today, opting to travel for holidays only once this year instead of twice like usual. Multiply the relief I feel tonight by five, and that’s my make-happy list for this week!
Oh, and canned cranberry sauce: I love that stuff.
Don’t be shy, tell me one of your resolutions for 2010! I’m especially hoping to hear from anybody reading this old ‘log who has never said hello. Surely there’s somebody? You can e-mail me in secret if you’d like; I love a secret letter.
One of my resolutions for the new year is to start a new web project. I hesitate to use the word launch because it’s not a space shuttle, but in truth I’ve actually already started this thing. I don’t really want to describe it yet since the premise is really simple (like describing a dream, ugh), but it WILL require me to update with a new drawing once a week. Can I do it???
1. Charcoal briquets.
2. Styrofoam practice targets.
3. Vivid nap dreams.
4. These nice people in Illinois didn’t think Henpeck would be a good name for their village, so they named it Oblong!
5. Clients from Hell, a collection of scary stories from designers.
I was given a gift of shower gel once that boasted itself as having “plenty of bubbles.” Seeing as there’s a whole dictionary of fanciful words reserved for such frilly goods, I find plenty to be a strange choice. How many bubbles are plenty? It’s such a vague, casually optimistic word. I prefer more concrete statements about my soaps, like… “It Floats.”
Don’t you trust it? (And then there’s Fairy Soap…)
Ivory soap images via Design History.
Sorry for the list-only updates lately. I haven’t felt like writing stuff because I’ve been drawing stuff.
1. Pieces of gum that you push through foil.
2. The lonesome wailing of a singing saw.
3. When a fallen tree is caught by the limbs of another tree. I imagine the standing one saying something like, “I’m here, brother.”
4. A man with a clean shave. So many of you good-chinned guys have unnecessary beards now.
5. Being somebody’s favorite.
