Not for Lack of Trying…

…or, a Call for Help.

Recently I came across the images that are posted here and my head was flooded with ghosts of familiarity.

This image was used for the 1984 film "Death Warmed Up"

I KNOW that I have seen much more of this artist's work before, most likely on other posters, horror book covers and magazines, but for the life of me I cannot remember where nor can I find out who the artist is.

I'm not sure where this image was used before

Reverse image searching pulls up very little info, and there is no mention of artwork or their artist in the IMD for 'Death Warmed Up'. So I come asking all of you, my fellow artists and horror fan friends, if ANYONE has any clue as to the artist behind these images....or possibly other images by the same artist that could help in the search....so that I can lay this search to rest before it becomes an obsession and I find myself wearing soiled bathrobes and having tea-parties with boiled egg friends....

Thank You!

Throwing Miniature Candies at Children…

I have been wanting to update this here blog type thing for a few weeks now, but have found myself too busy making costumes for this fine day as well as the Denver Zombie Crawl. I find myself without time today as well actually, but wanted to tell you all:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

There are so many thoughts and memories that I’ve wanted to share here, but like I said, I haven’t left myself the time. So instead I’ll share with you a link to a blog of another who appears to share the same nostalgic love of Halloween:

She Walks Softly

….and I promise to return after these festivities with updates of everything I’ve been up to these past several weeks.
Have a great night!!!

Things Held Together with Butters and Spite...

or The Year of the Head on a Plate…

In all the time that I have been doing this here blog-type thing, (yes, look everyone, he’s mentioning his own blog yet again) the most frequent question I get asked is where the titles of these posts come from, and I will take this return to blogging after a semi-long absence to further ignore that question and post about something else entirely….namely, the Death of Crumbly Nevertheless (finally).

A few of you might, at this point, be asking “What is Crumbly Nevertheless?”, and I will tell these same few to go and sit in the corner while wearing these bags filled with pissed-off ants over their heads…..the rest of us will continue on from here without them. But if I was to answer that question, it would go something like this:

Crumbly Nevertheless (blog) started as an excuse to justify my doing the little strange things that keep me happy. It was another small online corner of the world for me to post everything from the sketches I was doing at my day job in secret from the boss-type peoples, to making a potato zombie army and photographing scenes of the potato zombie outbreak (yes, I have done this, I just haven’t shared any images for fear of very uncomfortable jackets and padded cells smelling of piss), etc.

And like most of the things that I start to do on any sort of regular basis, Crumbly Nevertheless started to take it’s own shape and direction, gaining it’s own voice, look and style….becoming primarily about the 3”x5” drawings done entirely in ballpoint pen.

(this is where we get to the Death of Crumbly Nevertheless that I have been mentioning the past few posts) When I started doing these drawings over two years ago, I had no direction or time-frame in mind…like I said, it was just another thing I did that kept me happy. For all I knew, I could have done these drawings indefinitely, until the day I am committed or murdered by a Canadian Dakota Fanning Fan Club fanatic…and don’t get me wrong, I WILL still be drawing these little guys until that time, they just will no longer have their own dedicated showing space.

I think Crumbly hit it’s peak at the Seven Days of Dr. Seuss, or possibly with the beginning of the layout of the Crumbly Nevertheless book. Whatever the case, for me Crumbly has basically run it’s course as it’s own entity, and it’s time I took it for that long walk into the woods with my shotgun….and then make Crumbly Nevertheless soup out of it’s remains, which I imagine to be fairly oily and tasting of dead skunk ass.
On second thought, maybe I’ll just stop updating the Crumbly Nevertheless Blog and let it starve…..who knows? Maybe it can survive on it’s own by attacking and sucking the life from neighboring blogs, leaving them dried husks of shriveled family photos and YouTube ICP videos about rainbows being all magical?

But, like I said, this is not completely the end of these little drawings….I do have plans in the works for them.
First, the book is nearing the end of it’s third (and hopefully last) revision. It will contain every published Crumbly Drawing so far, as well as a few dozen that have never been shown. The drawings themselves will become available for people to buy as soon as the book becomes published (either in an online gallery, or on Etsy…I haven’t decided the best avenue just yet), as will prints of many of them.

And what of the Crumbly Nevertheless Blog? Well, all of the posts that exist there currently will be blended into this blog in the coming days, and it will be left in the dark, eventually having no visitors due to the lack of updates. I imagine that it will become transparent and blind, relying on echo location to find whatever prey accidentally stumbles it’s way……or maybe I’ll eventually delete it.

 

Failure of the Chum-Burger Market…

Let me just start by expressing how much I love it when people survive a serious accident that would kill most others, and then emerge finding and thanking God. I mean, seriously….screw the doctors that worked tirelessly to save the person, let’s thank God for waving his magic wand and saving the life. Never mind the fact that this same God who has the power over life and death could have just as easily intervened and spared the victim the terrible suffering when the person was originally run over by a semi and then chewed on for hours by electric land sharks, only to be left in the ditch for a few weeks by the passing tornado that picked them up…I’ll stop….you get the point.
First, I get it. It’s a hard thing to process when coming face to face with one’s mortality, and while for some it brings with it a renewed appreciation for the life that they have, others seem to be forced to understand it by suddenly believing in Dungeons and Dragons in which a God has just rolled them a saving throw with his twelve sided dice.

I suppose I would be able to swallow it better if the victims (or survivors) (or critical thinking impaired) were to apply this to other aspects of their lives. I long to hear a variety in the stories that God has gotten involved in.
“I thank God for curing me of my twenty year bed-wetting condition!” or “I knew God was right there with me, helping me take that left turn with one hand while I used the other to stuff my slack-jawed pie hole with the convenient-store bought microwave burrito.”
Or how about “I would like to thank God for the minimal possible punishment I am receiving after beating my wife in public in Vail, Colorado!”

….and with THAT out of my caffeine fueled system, I will admit here that I am again aware that this is not the update that I’ve promised twice now. But I will not leave you this time without a little piece of my artistic doings behind these pages…..does that make any sense or am I waxing poetic a little too much?

One of the many side projects that I have been doing and returning to for these many years is my collection of zombiespoons. For those of you paying attention, you’ll be used to the fact that I’ll go through stages of producing many new ones, followed by long periods of nothing……much like this blog……and visits outside where people dwell…
In any case, I seem to be starting one of those production periods yet again (of both blogging and the creation of zombiespoons), and I share with you one that I honestly can’t believe I had never done in all this time….that is, just drawing him:

So yes, not only can you expect a barrage of random thoughts pouring from my brain (like the one above) into simple font form on this here computing machine, but now you can also look forward to the next chapter in zombiespoon personas….maybe even a Zombiespoon Book? You didn’t hear that from me……even though you did.

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(Re-Post) The Jeans are fine, it all the Drinking and Whoring that's making you Fat...

...or the Truth about Proverbs Revealed!

(this is a re-post of an entry originally written November 27th, 2005)

There are plenty of fish in the sea.
- Yes, but there are also sharks...and they'll eat you!

There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
- But the end result is always a sticky screaming skinless cat.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- Unless of course, it happens to roll through a patch of sticky, stone-sucking moss....found primarily in England.

There’s no accounting for taste.
- Which is why you don't see many successful Taste Accountant Offices around.

Time heals all wounds.
- Except for a severed head.

Two heads are better than one.
- See the above proverb to understand why.

Variety is the spice of life.
- Cannibals can come in all shapes and sizes.

Walls have ears.
- I suggest that you start wearing tin-foil and keeping to yourself.

A watched pot never boils.
- Unless of course you fill it with water and put it over a heat source, dumbass.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
- I dare you to refer to a woman as "gander" to her face.

When it rains, it pours.
- Unless it's just a slight drizzle, you gloomy bastard.

A woman’s work is never done.
- Which is why I suggest that you beat her....she's making a fool out of you.

A word to the wise is sufficient.
- The wise tend to bore easily.

You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
- But shit is still the best fly bait of all.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink.
- But you can drown that ungrateful bastard of a horse.

You cant fit a round peg in a square hole.
- Unless you were to use tools, which is what got us all out of the jungles in the first fucking place!

You cant make a silk purse from a sows ear.
- And, seriously...a silk purse won't go with your new Sow Ear dress you made.

You cant squeeze blood from a turnip.
- Not without first soaking the turnip in blood for a minimum of 24 hours.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- But a bullet in his brain will keep him away for good, and you could stop eating all those god damned apples.

Beauty is only skin deep.
- Yeah, tell that to the screaming cat.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
- The main reason world domination has never been achieved by those in cahoots with mice.

Better late than never.
- Not wise to say when your job was simply to deliver life saving medicines.

Blood is thicker than water.
- Which is why a turnip needs to soak in it for so long.

Brevity is the soul of wit.
- Stupid people tend to babble on and on and on...

Cleanliness is next to godliness.
- That is of course, unless you worship a Mud God, then the cleanest of people are obviously witches and should be burned!

Cold hands, warm heart.
- The beginnings of hypothermia.

Curiosity killed the cat.
- No, the skinning of the cat led to it's death...let's not blame how it got there.

The devil is in the details.
- Which is why the Cliff Note version of the Bible is so popular in churches.

Don’t cry over spilt milk.
- Unless your captor swore he'd fucking kill you if he returned to find the milk spilt...then cry your eyes out bitch!

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Unless you have reason to believe that it swallowed your keys...it's a far worse thing to just gut the horse in front of the giver without first being sure.

Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.
- That is, unless you happen to have a bath-water baby....then by all means throw it out....what would the community think?

The early bird catches the worm.
- But in the end, it's still a worm and tastes like ass...I suggest sleeping in and then having some coffee.

Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Why then, have people not made their fortunes as cloud miners?

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Smart people stink and have no friends.

Give him enough rope and hell hang himself.
- Which is far better than giving him the materials to make a shiv to stab you with!

Haste makes waste.
- The reason behind the low cost of housing near Haste Factories.

He who laughs last, laughs best.
- Those that tend to chuckle first get the ever loving crap kicked out of them.

Ignorance is bliss.
- Yes, everyone on Jerry Springer seem so damn happy.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- Which fails to explain why plagiarism is so ill received.

Knowledge is power.
- Really really smart people could power a city block, while those that are merely clever struggle keeping a string of xmas lights lit.

Love conquers all.
- This explains why Hitler lost...he just didn't love enough.

The meek shall inherit the Earth.
- It is very likely that the Great Meek Uprising will happen in your lifetime.

Old soldiers never die; they only fade away.
- So what exactly is buried in those cemeteries neighboring Veteran Hospitals?

A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Photographers are the most boring people on earth.

Out of sight, out of mind.
- Blind people are all insane!

Poets are born, not made.
- But ignored by everyone else nevertheless...now mimes, they are made in labs!

Procrastination is the thief of time.
- When Procrastination was finally arrested in '73, nearly three hundred years was discovered in the crawlspace or buried in the backyard.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- Even the very best of pudding photographs can be faked, plus then you'd have to listen to the damn photographer for at least a thousand words!

The worm turns.
- Yeah...wait, what?!

Begin the Begin…

I’m going to cheat here a little bit….first, by not posting about The Death of Crumbly Nevertheless like  I said I would in the last entry (I still will, just not right now)….and second, by re-posting a blog entry in it’s entirety from a few years ago.
Now, before you get the torches and pitchforks out, let me just say this: don’t you think you’re overreacting? Just a tad? I mean, seriously….who the fuck starts an angry murderous mob in this day an age? Especially over a mostly-overlooked blog? Shame on all of you!! Shaaaaaaammmmme!!

The reason being is this: earlier today I was talking to my friend Jason about blogging and about my blog in general. It brought to the surface further how my descent into online rambling madness began.
Like I stated in the previous post, I started this form of online public diary writing on myspace….the first post being about not being able to find my coffee cup. Why did I write about this? Because I was bored and the option of “blog” was there. This might have been the first an only time I wrote anything had it not been for the fact that my post really seemed to upset Glen Danzig (or, let’s be honest, whoever might have been behind the Glen Danzig myspace profile), and an online fight ensued.

This clinched it…if I could upset someone like Danzig with a post about a missing cup of coffee, well I had no other choice but to keep writing!
It started of slowly: posts about “guess what Clint is listening to?”, which were usually answered with “strangled cats humping to an Ethel Murmen musical”, or the like.
What changed everything is the post that is to follow, the re-post, that is.

The post is titled: “The jeans are fine, it all the Drinking and Whoring that's making you Fat...    ...or the Truth about Proverbs Revealed!” and is nothing more than a list of proverbs and my own little take on them. It was just another example of what I do to keep myself entertained, and the fact that I write the most when I have nothing to say. But this entry took off unlike I could have imagined.
Within a week after posting it I had acquired several dozen more subscribers. I was receiving emails from people asking if they could repost it, one from a college student wanting to use it in a paper…and another from a school teacher wanting to use it for her class.

This solidified my writing habits, for the most part, from there on out. That is, write a lot about nothing….which is something that I am constantly filled with….nothing…obviously, I’m trying to get back to that…..

Looking for Reflections in a Burlap Sack...

This little blog has been going now, in one form or another, for about half a decade; ever since my first random posting on MySpace back in July of 2005. For those who are still with me, and by that I mean those few who have followed this blog for enough length of time that you are in for the long haul and want to see how it ends, I salute you. You have stayed with me through my rambling lists, disjointed observations and what some have called “a raping of the facts”…(ok, only one person has actually said that in an angry email to me, an email I like to pretend they were spitting mad while writing, but I like the phrase enough to use it here).

And those same few of you by now might have noticed the pattern to my posting methods, involving both, the cycles of frenzied, almost religious updating followed by long periods of silence and virtual tumbleweeds getting snagged on the barbed wire fences lining the long, dust-filled roads the lone hitch hiker has traveled without seeing an automobile in god knows how long…..and he’s running out of Skittles.

But there’s a little more to the pattern if one were to look a bit closer, even if one didn’t want to look closer, because I’m going to point it out anyway. The postings and absences coincide and can be mapped with whatever is going on in my little world. For example: take a look back at the periods when I was posting almost everyday if not more than once a day. You’ll notice that these are during some sort of transition in my life….as in struggling in New York, or staying in Pennsylvania looking for work and a new state to move to.
Now look to the voids….these usually coincide with periods of stability and production, usually drawings.

It’s a shame really…although this little soapbox was originally started as a way to poke fun at my friend Clint and just to record random stupid thoughts, I have tried to evolve it into also a venue to keep people informed on the progress of my professional targets, those being art and writing. If stepping back and looking at this blog as a whole shows anything, it is that I tend to write the most when I have nothing to say. This probably says a lot about me that I will continue to ignore….like this wound that is spreading and smells like cheese….or the shark in my bed wearing the clown hat. Some things are better left alone…..do you smell something burning?

So, if the lack of posts over the course of the past year is any indication, I have been keeping extremely busy drawing and writing and what not. The image above is a hint to one of the cooler things I’ve done during this time….click on the image to see where it leads….I’ll write more about that experience in an upcoming post. But for now, take this as my promise to attempt to bring this journal back up to speed, and maybe even try to stay on top of it…….Ooooooooooo look!! Something shiny!!

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Coming Next Post: the Death of Crumbly Nevertheless

Biscuits in High Altitudes…

Shortly, I will be on my way to Los Angeles….home of amazing art galleries, movie stars and victims of Sean Penn. This is just a quick and dirty trip that I’ll explain more about in soon to follow updates.
But, if my plane were to go down in the mountains and I’m eaten by survivors, I want to be buried in my own Mausoleum with a lifelike statue of myself looking panicked behind the locked doors.

Footprints in the Fishtank…

Nope..not dead. I know I say that a lot on here, but this time I mean it! There are things on the horizon and in the works and any other ‘progress making cliché’ you feel comfortable with. But first I’ll be going to L.A. for a short trip.

….aaaaaaaannnd that’s all I’ve got for the time being. More to come….I know, I say that a lot on here too….but I’ve always been dead when I’ve said it before.

Don't Call it a Kumquat...

In my attempt to return to the routine of blogging, I would like to start by taking this quick moment to wish everyone out there a Happy and Safe Cinco de Mayo, and a virtual wave going to my friends of the Mexican persuasion who have taken the day off from work to hide Coronas in the park for the children to find.

And on that note, I take my leave and await your angry mail. Let the blogging begin.

A Distance between Squirrel Parts…

 

Sorry for the little hiatus since the Seven Days of Seuss. I had (and still have) every intention of getting right back to the normal Crumbly Drawing silliness afterwards, as well as finish the remaining layout for the book, but Circumstance (the bastard step-brother of Fate) seemed to have had other plans for me…namely, the Flu.
Almost as soon as the sickness started to let up, my faithful old “Worky” PC died on me, having most likely overheard me talk about getting a new system and thereby losing the will to let, apparently. I did buy a new system (which I’m in love with), and am nearly back up and running…but in setting it up I discovered that my scanner is just a bit too late of a model to have had drivers made for it to work on Windows 7. So, now I await my new scanner to arrive in the mail….hopefully tomorrow…so I can get back to scanning these little bastards for this blog as well as the book. Bah!

So here’s a little preview of things to come when that finally happens:

Names From a Hat..or, the Conclusion…

Well, that was unexpected and unplanned for….getting the flu on the last days of the Seven that is. That’s not how I intended things to go, and again, I apologize to everyone for keeping you all waiting for the results. So let’s just get right to it then, shall we?
First, we’ll recap on the seven tributes:

…and now for the revealing of the unnamed three:

(this one turned out to prove the most difficult for many of you)

So there they are. I have never really done a contest like this, so I was afraid of either making it to easy on everyone, and thereby no fun…or making it too difficult and thereby no fun. I think I might have got it right in the middle…at least I hope that I did. Many folks got some of these three right off the bat, while many took several guesses. But all in all there was a good turnout of tries and a good many correct answers….which brings us to our winners:

Thing One (Snorter McPhail) - Mary Margaret Trinkle

Thing Two (Clark) - Dawn Angell Williams

Thing Three (Slow Joe Crow) - Nicole Ludwig

…and the secret added contest lottery, a drawing from those that got all three correct:

Jonathan Hawpe

…who win get a copy of the Crumbly Nevertheless Book as soon as it’s printed.

Way to go folks! I will be contacting the winners shortly. Thanks to everyone that participated…I hope you all enjoyed this. Sorry to those who’s names did not get drawn, I still hope you enjoyed it. I would have liked to get a drawing to everyone, but I am poor. Alas.

Apologies and Things that Rhyme with Apologies..

Dear readers,
I am really very sorry for the delay in the results of the Seuss Contest, plus I apologize for any misspellings that sneak past me as I write this..I am in bed using my phone to write this. Seems that I have caught a strain of the crud that I'll name Jeremy...or Rob...or Job! WhTever.

That was supposed to say "whatever"...see what I mean?

I DO have all of the results of the contest, I WILL pick the winners out of a hat (maybe even a gas mask, since they all look very Suessian to me)...just not just yet. I'm sorry, I really do feel like hell and I don't mean to keep everyone waiting...but please wait.

Thank you all for participating in this little project I made up, and thanks for being patient with me as I incubate the apparent next pandemic. Now, I request orange juice and clean clothes...

There’s a Cake in My Pocket…

….and so we come to the end, Seven Days leading up to Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday. This post is entirely toooo late, and for that I apologize. I had intended to post the results of the contest earlier in the evening, but Mother Nature it seems had other plans for me. I have been fighting off a cold or something for the past several days, and I think I’m finally losing that fight.
All is not lost! I have everyone’s answers and I’m compiling them all into four groups for the four lotteries and will draw the winners tonight. The results will be posted tomorrow morning and I will make efforts to contact the winners (many of you failed to also include your contact info….Boo on you I say!)

Again, I apologize for the delay.

But let’s take this moment to wish Theodor Seuss Geisel a very happy Birthday, and I’d like to personally thank him for his books that my father read to me every night (well, at least until I was four) which inspired me into doing many of the things that I enjoy doing today.
Dr. Seuss, I’m glad I got to grow up with you. Happy Birthday!

…and here’s an added bonus…I received this on my phone during the day. It’s my favorite two little munchkins who I shall forever now refer to as Thing One and Thing Two:

The Last Day Before….

 Dr. Seuss Quote of the Day
"Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.."

Seuss Fact:
The line “A person’s a person, no matter how small,” from “Horton Hears a Who!,” has been used as a slogan for anti-abortion organizations. It’s often questioned whether that was Seuss’ intent in the first place, but when he was still alive, he threatened to sue an anti-abortion group unless they removed his words from their letterhead.

                                            -Horton
                                            ballpoint pen on paper

Last night folks! Sorry for the late post of this my seventh drawing for the late Dr. Seuss. You didn’t think that I’d actually leave out Horton did you? In all honesty, I almost did. Somehow, I cannot count up to a full week. I realized this morning that I had only drawn six little tributes, thinking that the last day would fall on Seuss’ actual birthday, and the lottery subsequently.
So here we are….seven days, seven drawings, plus three that are available to win. Not a bad week…even if I am exhausted and my mother just gave me grief that I’m doing things for free and other motherly concerns….in all honesty, I kind of blocked her out and started daydreaming of monkeys made of marshmallows having a knife fight in the treetops.
I will draw the names of the three (i mean four) winners tomorrow evening and post the results right afterwards. Until then, keep the guesses coming….I’ll accept them until midday tomorrow.

Day Six of Seven…

 Dr. Seuss Quote of the Day
”Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”

Seuss Fact:
Frankenstein’s Monster himself, Boris Karloff, provided the voice of the Grinch, in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and the narration for the movie. Seuss thought his voice might be too scary for kids and all of the high tones in Karloff’s voice were removed in post production. That’s why the Grinch sounds so gravelly.

Also, Thurl Ravenscroft, (the voice behind Tony the Tiger in the old Frosted Flakes commercials) is the voice behind “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” song, although he received no credit on the film.

                            -Tweedle Beetle  
                                       ballpoint pen on paper

With two days left of the Seuss Week, I bring you my little version of the Tweedle Beetle Bottle Battle Bug. There is still time on the contest. There have been a lot of correct answers given by many people, but there are still some with incorrect (albeit very good) guesses as well. I encourage those to give it another shot.

The Things Three…

So here’s a recap of the three drawings that are eligible to be won by you good folks. Like I said at the beginning, it isn’t necessary that you guess all three in order to win anything; the ones that you guess correctly put you into a drawing for that piece. But….here’s an added bonus for those of you who can guess all three correctly (of which, there are several already), there will be one last lottery and one lucky person will win one of the first copies of the Crumbly Nevertheless Collection that I’m currently putting together.
So again, Good Luck!

Thing One
_______

Thing Two
_______

Thing Three

HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above characters. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.

Day Five of Seven…

 Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day” 
“It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it 
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
for the places and people you're lucky you're not.”

Seuss Fact:
“If I Ran the Zoo,” published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word “nerd.”

                                               -Braggarts
                                               ballpoint pen on paper

More than halfway there folks! There are still a few days left for those of you who have made some wrong guesses or who haven’t guessed at all…like I said, I will accept answers all the way up to noon on the 2nd of March, this coming Tuesday, so keep at it! I will be posting the three drawings together in a single post later in the day (I know, I know…I said I’d do this yesterday but I got sidetracked with an overly long power-nap, sorry) to make it easier for everyone to reference them and make their guesses.
Congrats to all of you with correct guesses so far! Your names have all been added into the lottery for the drawings in question.

In related news, the film 2012 will have it’s dvd released on the 2nd of March, Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Coincidence? Yeah, I hope so…

Day Four of Seven…

 Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day” 

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

I use the above quote to justify being a hermit….don’t you judge me!

Seuss Fact:
Ted Seuss Geisel was no stranger to political commentary, before and during his children’s book career, and actually said Yertle the Turtle was a representation of Hitler. Despite the political nature of the book, none of that was disputed at Random House — what was disputed was Mack’s, the turtle at the bottom of the stack) burp. No one had ever let a burp loose in a children’s book before, so it was a little dicey. In the end, obviously, Mack burped, and Yertle/Hitler’s reign was over.

                                            -Yertle the Turtle
                                            ballpoint pen on paper

HAPPY HUMP DAY!! Well, at least hump day concerning these the Seven Days of Seuss. We have hit the midway point, and all three of the winnable (is that even a word?) drawings have already been posted. I will post all three together again this evening with the instructions. Many of you have guessed the drawings from Day 1 and Day 3, but Day 2 seems to have the most folks stumped. For those of you who have incorrect guesses (and yes, if you send me your guess, I WILL write back telling you whether it’s correct or not) or have yet to guess at all…there is still time left. I will accept any entries up to noon on Tuesday the 2nd of March….that’s Mountain Time….carry the one and multiply by the remainder….hold the onions…..something something……and scene!

Day Three of Seven…

 Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day” 

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Quite possibly my favorite Seuss quote.

Seuss Fact:
The book, The Lorax, used to contain the line, “I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie,” but 14 years after the book was published, the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss creator Theodore Geisel, and told him how much the conditions had improved and implored him to take the line out. He agreed and said that it wouldn’t be in future editions.

                                         -the Lorax
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And welcome to the third day of seven for Dr. Seuss! Today’s little tribute is obviously the Lorax, so those of you who have been using the Lorax as your guesses for yesterday’s drawing, you now know to guess again. That’s as much of a hint as I’m going to give at this point….I told you these were going to get more difficult….which brings us to today’s challenge, and the last of the contest three. I will make a post of all three drawings together tomorrow for everyone to continue guessing on, and again, Good Luck!

HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.

Day Two of Seven

 Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day” 

“If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.”

Seuss Fact:
It’s has been suspected that “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!” was written by Dr. Seuss specifically about Richard Nixon, although he never admitted to that claim. The book came out only two months after the whole Watergate scandal, making it unlikely that the book could have been conceived of, written, edited and mass produced in such a short time. In 1974, he sent a copy of Marvin K. Mooney to his friend Art Buchwald at the Washington Post. In it, he crossed out “Marvin K. Mooney” and replaced it with “Richard M. Nixon,” which Buchwald reprinted in its entirety.

                                            -Marvin K. Mooney
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Good morning folks! Welcome to this, the second day of seven for Dr. Seuss! Today I share with you my drawing of Mr. Marvin K. Mooney, another one of my favorites…and since I gave the explanation in yesterday’s post about how this week was going to pan out let’s get right to the second drawing for you folks to guess. First, congrats to many of you who have already guessed yesterday’s character, you all make me proud! For those of you who haven’t guessed it yet, don’t worry…you still have 6 days to figure it out. Now, the last two are going to get considerably more difficult, so Good Luck!

HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.

…Good Luck!!

Day One of Seven…

Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day”
”Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

Seuss Fact:
The Cat in the Hat was created when Williams Spaulding (publisher) commissioned Dr. Seuss to write a children’s book that was along the lines of the popular “Dick and Jane” books, encouraging children to read. The catch was that he was only allowed to use 225 words from a list of 400. He decided that if he could find two words from the list that rhymed, they would become the book’s title and subject. Thus, The Cat in the Hat was born, but still took over nine months to complete.

-the Cat in the Hat
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Good morning folks! Today is the first day of the Seven as I have promised, and what better character to start it off with than The Cat in the Hat? As you can now see, this is what I had in mind as my tribute to one of my favorite authors. I have done a different one for every day of this week.
Now, the above is obviously not part of the contest that I mentioned before…if for no better reason than I have already given you the answer to who this drawing is supposed to be….and having been given the answer, if you found yourself still having difficulties placing the Cat, well then, you probably will not fair all that well in the contest and the rest of us will be forced to laugh at you.

But that’s just it…not the “laughing at you” part, the “guessing the Seuss Character” part. I have done three additional drawings for this week, all of which are what I consider to be more obscure characters from the pages of his books. I will post them here, one today, one tomorrow and the final one the day after that. Your job is to figure out who they are. That’s all there is to it. All correct answers will be used in a drawing of one who will win the drawing in question….so let’s get on to the first of the three:

HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.

….and that’s how it’ll be. Good Luck!!

Oh the Thinks You Can Think…

March 2nd is the birthday of one of my favorite authors and biggest influences….can you guess who that might be? There is a hint hidden somewhere in this post.

Here's the deal: Starting on Feb. 23rd I will be posting a drawing every day honoring Mr. Geisel on my Crumbly Nevertheless blog (ok…..as well as on here), leading up to his birthday. Each drawing will be my take on one of his characters, with all due respects.
Here's the contest part: Also on the 23rd, I will post three additional drawings, these being of his more obscure characters. These three drawings can be won by those who can guess who they are and what books they are from. The details will be given when the drawings are posted.
So get your Seuss knowledge up to date, sign up to be notified as the contest starts and good luck!

A Saint by any other Name…

                                         -Valentine
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Found in the Grout…

Here are a few old pics….this is what happens when I am bored and stuck at work….

Lacking the Lungs Necessary…

….So, I’m going to take a short hiatus from this here corner of my mind for a bit to finish work on the first Crumbly Nevertheless book…which I hope to make available within the coming month or so. But, I’ll pop in from time to time with a little randomness (like the Totalitarian Twinkie above) and possible book progress updates. And of course I’ll return with a whole new round of ballpoint pen drawing goodness.

So, until we meet again…..