Okay, again with the snakes.
Yesterday, my wife and I watched a glossy black snake sort of take a shortcut through our backyard. We figured out pretty quick it wasn’t a dangerous type of critter, but, still, it was kind of amazingly huge. Or, well, all right, not exactly humongous like a python or something, but nevertheless a whole bunch larger than the usual garter snakes and whatnot we sometimes see lurking around and about. Anyway, there’s really nothing much more to this story, just wanted to draw it real quick, ’cause it was a lot of excitement for us both to have all at once in a fairly quiet-type of neighborhood like ours. I need to mention, though, that my wife is much, much braver than me, despite how it accidentally looks in my sketch, and it’s usually my own personal inclination to get a stomach full of quivery feelings whenever I’m within half a mile of any sort of natural phenomena. Thank goodness for Google and how it can answer questions super-fast about whether or not a particular animal is poisonous…I mean, ’cause of how I grew up totally inside of cities, I can’t really give even the most harmless creature the benefit of the doubt, which is shameful thing, but there it is.
So, that’s all I know for now. There are what sound like interesting conversations happening on the back porch, and it’s way past time for me to quit work for the day. And, yeah, the other drawing isn’t anything in particular. There was an article on Wired about the impossible science of Iron Man, and it was in a lot of ways a fun read, but also 1000% beside the point, ’cause we all know it’s impossible, all the cool junk that iron suit can do, but we also 1000% don’t care, on account of the inner-kid part of our brains that’s just flabbergasted to see it flying around on the big screen. Right? Anyhow, I have one more page in my moleskine and I’ve gotta think about how best to spend it. So, until then….
