The FAB family does not discriminate by species. Party Pants for everyone!
Follow the adventures of Big Poodle here, one of my very favorite things on all of the internet.
Last year, Christine and I discussed what she should wear for Halloween…
XJ:
I told the one person that would get it about my brilliant Bat Out of Hell costume idea and he had a good laugh. I’m so tempted by the idea, but I don’t want to have to explain it all night long.
Anyway, there you have it.
KJ:
For Halloween (or maybe just in general) I think you should knit a shirt where each of your arms is the trunk of an elephant (two elephants total) and then you should hang a sign around each of their “necks” saying Gerald, and then you could be Elephants Gerald all night.
(This is a punchline both Mark and Evan came up with independently)
I have illustrated the concept:
I’ve been experimenting with fabric design over at Spoonflower.com, using Paint of course. If you know how fun it is designing anything in Paint, just think how fun it is trying to create a repeating pattern!
Here’s a few, created for the contests they hold every week:
Friend Adam P, who is also into MS Paint, sent out a party invite today ending with:
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Bring: Your party pants. And some booze.
Hope to see you all there - if you have friends, relatives or dogs that you want to invite, please forward this e-mail to them. All are welcomed (except cats).
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The following ensued:
KJ:
My maternal unit has accused me—me!—of not posting enough. And since my mother is always right about everything, I will attempt to rectify this issue. I’m still snowed under at work, but surely there must be some prolixity to consolidate?
Yes indeed. To start with, Aemon and I have been beavering (space-beavering??) away on spaceoters.tumblr.com. Here are the posts that have gone live since my last round-up:
Hupyrian Beetle
Pyrithian Moon Hawk
Bardakian pronghorn moose
Kavarian tiger-bat
Filian python
Barrowbug
Screech rhino
Gunji jackdaw
Denobulan lemur
Denebian whale
Pyrithian Moon Hawk is probably my favorite so far, but I pretty much love all of them. It has been great fun working on a project with such an enthusiastic and talented partner!
In the MS Paint category, here is a banner I made for the blog:
Haven’t been MSPainting much lately, but here’s one for the ol’ portfolio:
In his new role as young entrepreneur, Mark sometimes goes off to see “the Small Business lady.” This is what I picture, each and every time:
Happy New Year, all! Here is a recent MS Paint concoction, presented without explanation:
This is my last week at work, and I’ve been feeling very mixed emotions. Although I’m excited for a new challenge, it’s difficult to leave teammates and co-workers as great as mine have been for the last two years.
Illustrated notes from a meeting in April:
Mark: What are you guys reading for bookclub this month?
KJ: Tender Is The Night.
Noah: It’s a romance novel, set in medieval times.
I loved that joke so much that I reinterpreted it:
A card I made for a coworker recently who received a (well-deserved!) promotion:
