Dr. Terawatt's Journal of Ecstatic Rural Poetics
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These were done by Chris Rhodes at Wild Zero tattoo
My friends would appreciate this.
Librarians are very special people. They are the caregivers of the world of the mind, the nurturers of dreams and the defenders of truth. Perhaps no other profession is so marked by the singular generosity of its practitioners.
- Denver Post editorial, March 25, 2000
What have the cyclists ever done for us?
REG: Cyclists have bled us white, the bastards. They don’t pay road tax, they run red lights. And what have they ever given us in return?
XERXES: Pneumatic tyres.
REG: What?
XERXES: Pneumatic tyres.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that’s true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And ball bearings.
REG: Yeah. All right. I’ll grant you pneumatic tyres and ball bearings are two things that the cyclists have done.
MATTHIAS: And the roads.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don’t they? But apart from pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, and the roads…
COMMANDO: Lightweight steel tubing.
XERXES: Chain driven differential gears.
COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh…
Follow the link for more of this Monty Python-inspired history lesson of the debt motorized travel pays to cycling pioneers and activists!
I assembled this “Five Card Nancy” strip back in 2008 and promptly forgot all about it. But it must be shared.
Scott McCloud’s 5 Card Nancy page: http://www.7415comics.com/nancy/index.html
These rappers need ER like they’re Charlie Park
Cosmic Jungle (Second Rough Mix)
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A miniature sketch of a tune that I put together a few weeks ago. Will have to rework it into something much longer, since the main drum loop is pretty awesome and can go into lots of territory. A friend said it has a Ratatat vibe to it; I concur.
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