The USC/UCLA game is coming up this weekend. Â Here’s my meager attempt to fly the colors. Â Well, one of them anyway.
(Actually, this had nothing to do with the game — just  a quick, late-night Flickr sketch.  Based on a photo by Gypsy Flores.)
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My friend from yesterday’s sketch was actually admitted to the hospital for surgery. Thankfully it went well, but since he was drugged up with a dead arm, I went by the hospital and picked up his car for him. For better or worse, it’s the absolute opposite of what I’m used to driving.
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So this drawing barely got started before I was literally falling asleep at the page. Â I couldn’t keep my eyes open long enough to do anything other than the initial lay-in shown here. Â If you can identify it, I’ll be most impressed.
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My wife’s big into smoothies at the moment, so I’m big into making them. Â They’re not usually this blood red, but hey, that’s the only colored marker I have, in case you hadn’t noticed.
Oh, and thanks, Tom Dickson, for letting me borrow your slogan.  Actually, that raises an interesting question.  Could a Blendtec machine blend one of its own competitors?  Think of it: a super-sized blender-eating blender.  Like the Robosaurus of kitchen appliances.  Sir, I think I can speak for the entire internet when I say, “Please get to work on that.”
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Got an additional new computer at work today. Â Not exciting, however: it’s a PC (*groan*), which I only need in order to a) access an archaic JPL database; and b) control the DVD duplicator shown above. Â So I spent a large chunk of my day getting two loathsome machines to talk to one another. Â PCs I can live with, but I’ve got no love for DVDs. Â Please die already, terrible technology!
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This is also a response to my wife’s little drawing challenge over at The Give Way. The very specific commission: an elephant eating cotton candy.
I also figured that after the past three day’s sketches featuring venomous creatures, tongues of fire, and vein-bulgingly hypermasculine posturing, I figured it was time to swing to the other side and go overboard cutesy.
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Always a party when these two show up.
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Drove to Switzerland today to spend some time with more extended family and my super-cool in-laws.
This sketch was mostly an exercise in motor control. Â It’s not easy to control a marker exactly how you want to and have everything come out right. Â I did about 25 of these before I settled on one I was happy with. Â Seems like a lot of work for a “drawing” that’s only make up of 14 straight lines. Â Still had fun though.
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While I was shopping for menswear recently, the sales guy pulled out a tie for me and I thought, “That’s ugly and I would never buy it.” Â So I bought it. Â (After having looked at it for a couple minutes, it had really grown on me.)
When I took it home, my wife said, “But you hate paisley!” Â I hadn’t even seen it in there. Â So observant. Â Anyway, I wore that tie today and messed around this evening sloppily sketching the pattern.
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This evening, a friend of mine introduced me to Cynar, a wacky Italian artichoke aperitif. Â (He himself is a wacky Italian, so I suppose it makes sense.) Â I imagine people must find it to be a pretty polarizing flavor, but I liked it. Â Then again, I eat Vegemite.
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