The original National Lampoon magazine had some good writing and cartooning, up to the release of Animal House, when the emphasis switched to movies. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson, known for his macabre humor, had a regular feature in NatLamp called “Nuts.” The installment I remember best is perhaps the least macabre. I felt exactly this way after making a drawing board for myself when I was 11 years old.
I see projects like that going on around here all the time. Sometimes they’re Katie’s, sometimes Sarah’s…most often, as I’m sure Doug can guess, they’re Jim’s! So I guess he, at least, has not outgrown that tendency. Hey, if my middle-aged husband is holding onto some behavioral aspect of younger years, this one ain’t too bad!
I don’t have that problem, but sometimes my “Vit Buck” eye hurts when I’m doing image editing, with lots of copying, pasting and cropping.
Sorry for they typos. I have to wear these cumbersome splints on both arms for carpal tunnel syndrome. If I type longer than fifteen minutes, I get agonizing pain shooting up both arms. AIEEEE!!!
This is very appopriate. Tom is outside buzzing down all the saplings within a 50-yard radius of the house. He’s gone NUTS! Sez he wants to cut down anything that will put leaves in the pool. I’m the one in charge of pool maintance, so I guess that’s a good thing. He gets like this every once in a while. The above comic also sort of the theme in Stephen King’s “The Tommyknockers,” which I currently re-reading, where the effects of an alien ship being unearthed make ordinary people capable of inventing extraordinary machines out of common household items. Again, synchronicity (a fancy word for coincidence). I have Stevie’s new book, “Lisey’s Story,” on pre-order from Amazon, and it should arrive next week. His new books always come out around his birthday.
And I remember you making that drawing board! I hadn’t thought of it til just now! It WAS cool! It prompted me to try to make a TABLE in the furnace room in Norwalk. Weird, huh?