Well, a nation turns its back and gags

The last panel of this piece may need a little explanation (at the risk of killing the joke by explaining it).

Pure style (outdoors)

Birthday card for my sister-in-law.

Before you start hunting through thinkexist.com for the quote, I can tell you that it comes from this book which she requested as a present.

Real emotional trash

OK, Malkmus-solo will never be as good as he used to be in a band, but some of the tracks on the new album hit the spot. Cold Son has a chorus good enough to inspire a drawing or two, and Out of Reaches grabs at my heartstrings every time I listen to it.

For some reason, whilst drawing this, I felt I needed a Joshua tree in the frame. Only after finishing the piece did I have a wee look at the mythology surrounding Yucca brevifolia and it turns out to be remarkably apt. Almost makes one want to become a Jungian. Almost.

And if a double decker bus crashes into us...

Everything you always wanted to know about metaphorical breasts but were afraid to ask

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Sold my cold knot, a heavy stone; sold my red horse for a venture home

At the moment I'm running away from laryngitis. If April is the cruellest month, May is the is the gruelest month.

[Title from Bon Iver song: a man who did something useful with his running-away-from]

Whatever makes you happy

belated
birthday
card

for
my
brother

Know thyself

I've slightly changed my Nadler character. Having seen Guru Nadler in the flesh last night, I realised that glasses are probably as important to his persona as my own. A spectacles-less Nadler just ain't a Nadler.

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[Click here to see Nadler's original drawing of The Switch]

Ludovicians/pissing in the wind

Have been putting my week-long supine state to 'good' use by reading a novel or two.

Steven Hall's Raw Shark Texts seemed to resonate.

I could do with being attacked by a memory-munching Ludovician at the moment.

Wish I weren't here

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom” (Schopenhauer)

I think Schopenhauer would have also liked the following quote: "If you use a physical regimen like Bikram yoga to punish yourself for being alive, at some point the body will rebel."

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And the father who must be killed is a blight upon your blighted life

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Compare the best of their days with the worst of your days, you won't win

"One man had a branch embedded in his head, another had a foot missing." (Metro)

To donate.

Who (the fuck) voted for Boris Johnson?

London has a new mayor. God help us.

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Your boyfriend, he has the gift of the gab, or could it be the gift of the grab?

King Leer (click)

For once in my life, let me, let me, let me, let me get what I want this time

Lord knows it would be the first time (click to watch video)

Nadler's drawing of his Therapeutic Echo Chamber