I’m going to try and shift my doodling away from the “realistic” to something more “iconic”, and hopefully less “sucky”.
Who is the first commenter with a doodle idea to set me on the path of quality, hipness, respect and relevance?
UPDATE:
I decided to combine the first two commenters’ requests. For Jess and Tengrain, a monkey flying out of Dick Cheney’s butt, as a scene from a fair trade (and all-organic) porno flick.
A couple weeks ago I noticed a nifty bit of stencilwork on a crappy old building near where I work.
I really dig graffiti, especially when it’s something other than a poorly-made half-assed gang sign.
Years ago when I was visiting my brother in Atlanta, I saw many instances of stenciled graffiti of André the Giant, which I really loved.
Graffiti-by-stencil is obviously not the same thing as freeform graffiti, but it really pops out at me when I see it, and often resonates really powerfully for me.
I decided to drag my camera to work today to take some pictures of Barack Obama, his microphone, and the USA. I have seen this graffiti one other place, near the old stockyards on South Halsted Street. The instance near where I work is a little cooler in my opinion, in that the stencil is actually on two sides of a corner rather than on a flat piece of wall.
Enjoy.
Obama addressing South Clinton Street
A little closer
Stencil on the corner. I might be interpreting the graffiti incorrectly, but I think it’s intended to be supportive of Obama. Was it made by an inspired graffiti artist? A covert Obama campaign tactic? I have no idea.
The United States is bleeding a bit, which reflects a little negatively on the graffiti
Even in silhouette, Obama is a fine-looking fellow
Some posters for the Rambo movie coming out pasted on the same building as the Obama graffiti. The posters have not been altered. They should have gotten the Obama graffiti guy to do Stallone’s stencil, eh?
UPDATE:
I see that someone has posted a question regarding the artist of this graffiti on Craigslist.
a35mmlife commented on this post as to the artist’s identity, but I guess it’s still not that obvious as his/her ID is not in the body of the post.
So… the artist goes by the name CRO, and has a website, Go Tell Mama! I’m For Obama.
Who will be the lucky first commenter with an idea, that gets the glory of the big 3-0 doodle? Could it be YOU?
UPDATE:
WOW. I cannot draw. These posts have a nice built-in excuse, in that I can’t take longer than 60 seconds to create them. And believe me, I only take 60 seconds. But still, WOW. I cannot draw.
For FranIAm – Hilary Clinton, Barbara Streisand and Oprah – Clinton on Babs’ posterior, flipping Oprah the bird. 
You witnessed the ribald humor of my daughter.
You scratched your head at the enigmatic pondering from my eldest son.
Now I present my two year old’s contribution to the knock knock joke.
Son: Knock knock who’s there monster
Me: Monster who?
Son: Rooooooooowwwrrrr!
George Orwell: “Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1983.”
I am happy to report I’ll be attending a concert on Thursday night, something I don’t do too often these days!
A friend of mine just informed me today he had an extra ticket to see Tegan & Sara at the Portage Theater in Chicago.
The first I heard of this group was via a contribution by the lovely Barbara to the Speed It Up Green Monkey Mix. Thank you, Barbara! If you want me to yell a song request for you, or say something positive or negative about the Calgary Flames, I will gladly convey your message.
Is anyone else attending this show? Look for me — I’ll be dressed as Satan’s underpants.
Here’s a video of Barbara’s song contribution – Speak Slow
Here’s a very small World of Warcraft (WoW) update. My brother has just informed me that Baklava the Night Elf Druid now has the ability to transform into a cat! Screenshots are forthcoming.
He told me that as Druids get higher in level they can transform into additional animals. So now, Baklava can be a bear or a cat.
The other day MizSplotchy indicated to me that my regular inclusion of night elf cheesecake has ruffled her feathers a bit. I was genuinely surprised. Perhaps it was triggered by a reader’s comment (a funny one, I thought) on a recent post intimating that some pubic hair was visible in a night elf drawing I had included.
I mentioned this to my brother, who retorted, “Oh, no. Night elves don’t have any pubic hair. Everybody knows this.”
I really like finding and including these night elf pics in WoW updates, but also understand and respect my wife’s point of view as well.
Perhaps we could get a little of direction from the readers of this blog?
So, I ask you, would you like the following to happen:
A) No more female night elf pics!
B) Keep the female night elf pics, but let’s shake it up by including a little beefcake night elf from time to time!
C) We want sexy female night elf pics, 24/7!
Thanks for any assistance in this matter.
[THIS IS WHERE A NIGHT ELF PIC WOULD NORMALLY BE]
UPDATE:
Just so you don’t think you’ll be disrupting the marital bliss of Splotchy and MizSplotchy by giving your opinion, she has seen this post and is cool with my solicitation of feedback from my readers, who, I should tell you, she believes to solely consist of World Of Warcraft night-elf cheesecake lovin’ freaks.
I was all hush-hush and stuff about why I stopped doing the Green Monkey Music Project, which in retrospect I guess was a little silly.
If you care to read why I stopped, here’s a great post about a former, wonderful community and its sad demise.
I’m *still* bummed out about it. It was a wonderful thing, and revived my interest in new music, old music, everything. It actually motivated me to purchase music, something I hadn’t done since my eldest kids were born.
There was a lot of negative press about this site after its owner/admin was busted, but I think it was a shining example of what the Internet can accomplish — feel free to argue with me, there are many valid arguments to the contrary, I know.
Whatever more I could say about it is already said more eloquently in the linked post.
Pink
A grease dumpster
