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A Surprised Woman Working Overtime

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I’m a regular reader of Lotsa ‘Splainin’ 2 Do, celebrated blog of the illustrious Matty Boy.

One of his entertaining recurring features is They Wouldn’t Believe Me&trade.

The last several times he’s published this feature he’s used a graphically striking picture of a surprised woman against a yellow background:

For lunch today I grabbed something from my company’s cafeteria to bring back to my desk. As I was waiting to get my food, I glanced around and saw some “health” pamphlets arranged against a wall. One pamphlet immediately drew my attention. I had to pick it up and take it home:

I tell you, some of my most cherished moments in life are seeing things like this. There’s some stock photo of a surprised woman floating around, which a health pamphleteer took and shoved an enormous image of food in front of. This is golden to me, people. GOLDEN.

I’m so happy with this discovery I am making a surprised woman with food composite image in Matty Boy’s honor.

protoblog, scanners

Welcome to the Protoblog

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I haven’t scanned anything in a while.

Here’s the first page out of a journal I kept in 6th grade. The journal was actually a class assignment we did for credit.

If I remember correctly, you had to keep up with it on a daily basis, filling up at least a half page per day.

You can see I got a “1” on the first page, which I think was not a good thing — probably due to my not fulfilling the half page requirement.

I’ll be posting more pages from this journal — it’s clear to me that I did not enjoy recording my thoughts then as much as I do now, though I did find some inventive ways of stretching my very small journal entries.

Click on journal to make it bigger

politics, scanners

A Democratic Rhyme To A Tengrain Post

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There have been a handful of occasions when I see something in a newspaper or magazine that is so awesome (either terribly awesome or wonderfully awesome) that I feel compelled to clip it and stick it on a wall.

Seeing this post by Tengrain jogged my memory of a clipped picture I had cherished from the Bill Clinton years.

I rummaged through an old box of things, found and scanned it.

I’m sorry about the quality — it’s a little wrinkled and yellowed with age. Still, I think the power of the photo shines through.

Click on the pic to make Bill Clinton and the head he is palming even bigger!

scanners

Cody and Cary

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As of late, Doctor Monkey Von Monkerstein has been scanning things like a bat out of hell (a little known fact: bats out of hell are prolific image-scanners). Having been inspired by the good doctor, as well as recently purchasing a nifty all-in-one printer/fax/scanner, I have tentative plans to assemble a few choice items at Casa De Splotchy for your viewing pleasure.

So, here is the first item in my small to-be-scanned collection — the cover to the 1994 paperback edition of Keith Hale’s Cody, a piece of juvenile fiction dealing with gay issues, which I picked up several years ago at the wonderful Brown Elephant thrift store.

I would normally comb the shelves of the Brown Elephant for cheap sci-fi and mid-80’s Spy Magazines, but when I saw the cover of Cody, I had to pick it up.

This particular cover is apparently only on the 1994 edition. If Cary Elwes did not receive a quarter every time this book was sold, I think he has grounds for a lawsuit.