My kind of beer can

P. and I had dinner at the restaurant that replaced Le Tableau (sniff!) over on East 5th street recently, and P. knocked back a couple of these very tasty and awesomely canned "Porkslap" beers. I'm going to miss Le Tableau, but I gotta say, these new folks are doing something right.

Now that's a cat

Take a look at this amazing bobcat. He was loitering around a house in the California desert when my friend Frank's boyfriend Patrick was able to snap these pics.





What a face! (Patrick, you're a great photographer.)

Phew

Valentine's Day is over! Yay!

Not to disparage anything celebrating St. Valentine, or created by Hallmark, or that inspires couples to throng the streets in an even more annoying way than they usually do. I know: I'm part of a couple myself, and therefore perhaps a bit of the hypocrite about this. And obviously, I'm not that anti-St. V day or I wouldn't have drawn the above for P. But still. There's something just so yeccch about it all. So back to my yay. YAY! It's over!

Lottes and lottes of Dirty Plottes

Hooray, a bunch of comics arrived in the mail yesterday! They're by the super-talented Julie Doucet, who I'd heard of but never really dived into until recently. Her past stuff is very autobiographical and inspired by her dreams. I know, it's VERY strange that I of ALL people would be interested in someone who writes autobiographically. What the...?



Well, just look at her. She's painting her fingernails with her drawing ink in this crazy drawing.



She's upside down in this one.



There are four of her here.



She's in her socks, battling a clean freak in this one. (I love this cover. The safety-pin border, the olives jumping around, and the whole "Dirty Plotte vs. Super Clean Plotte" thing.)



Arty Plotte.



OK, maybe you've had enough of this. These are 6 of the 12 comics in the "Dirty Plotte" series, originally published in the early 90s. If you're interested in her stuff, check out her recent book My Most Secret Desire, which you can get at good old Forbidden Planet, among other places.

Yummm

Coffee with a nice snap pea aftertaste.