Biscuits in High Altitudes…
Shortly, I will be on my way to Los Angeles….home of amazing art galleries, movie stars and victims of Sean Penn. This is just a quick and dirty trip that I’ll explain more about in soon to follow updates.
But, if my plane were to go down in the mountains and I’m eaten by survivors, I want to be buried in my own Mausoleum with a lifelike statue of myself looking panicked behind the locked doors.
Footprints in the Fishtank…
Nope..not dead. I know I say that a lot on here, but this time I mean it! There are things on the horizon and in the works and any other ‘progress making cliché’ you feel comfortable with. But first I’ll be going to L.A. for a short trip.
….aaaaaaaannnd that’s all I’ve got for the time being. More to come….I know, I say that a lot on here too….but I’ve always been dead when I’ve said it before.
Don't Call it a Kumquat...
A Distance between Squirrel Parts…
Sorry for the little hiatus since the Seven Days of Seuss. I had (and still have) every intention of getting right back to the normal Crumbly Drawing silliness afterwards, as well as finish the remaining layout for the book, but Circumstance (the bastard step-brother of Fate) seemed to have had other plans for me…namely, the Flu.
Almost as soon as the sickness started to let up, my faithful old “Worky” PC died on me, having most likely overheard me talk about getting a new system and thereby losing the will to let, apparently. I did buy a new system (which I’m in love with), and am nearly back up and running…but in setting it up I discovered that my scanner is just a bit too late of a model to have had drivers made for it to work on Windows 7. So, now I await my new scanner to arrive in the mail….hopefully tomorrow…so I can get back to scanning these little bastards for this blog as well as the book. Bah!
So here’s a little preview of things to come when that finally happens:
Names From a Hat..or, the Conclusion…
Well, that was unexpected and unplanned for….getting the flu on the last days of the Seven that is. That’s not how I intended things to go, and again, I apologize to everyone for keeping you all waiting for the results. So let’s just get right to it then, shall we?
First, we’ll recap on the seven tributes:
…and now for the revealing of the unnamed three:
(this one turned out to prove the most difficult for many of you)
So there they are. I have never really done a contest like this, so I was afraid of either making it to easy on everyone, and thereby no fun…or making it too difficult and thereby no fun. I think I might have got it right in the middle…at least I hope that I did. Many folks got some of these three right off the bat, while many took several guesses. But all in all there was a good turnout of tries and a good many correct answers….which brings us to our winners:
Thing One (Snorter McPhail) - Mary Margaret Trinkle
Thing Two (Clark) - Dawn Angell Williams
Thing Three (Slow Joe Crow) - Nicole Ludwig
…and the secret added contest lottery, a drawing from those that got all three correct:
Jonathan Hawpe
…who win get a copy of the Crumbly Nevertheless Book as soon as it’s printed.
Way to go folks! I will be contacting the winners shortly. Thanks to everyone that participated…I hope you all enjoyed this. Sorry to those who’s names did not get drawn, I still hope you enjoyed it. I would have liked to get a drawing to everyone, but I am poor. Alas.
Apologies and Things that Rhyme with Apologies..
I am really very sorry for the delay in the results of the Seuss Contest, plus I apologize for any misspellings that sneak past me as I write this..I am in bed using my phone to write this. Seems that I have caught a strain of the crud that I'll name Jeremy...or Rob...or Job! WhTever.
That was supposed to say "whatever"...see what I mean?
I DO have all of the results of the contest, I WILL pick the winners out of a hat (maybe even a gas mask, since they all look very Suessian to me)...just not just yet. I'm sorry, I really do feel like hell and I don't mean to keep everyone waiting...but please wait.
Thank you all for participating in this little project I made up, and thanks for being patient with me as I incubate the apparent next pandemic. Now, I request orange juice and clean clothes...
There’s a Cake in My Pocket…
….and so we come to the end, Seven Days leading up to Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday. This post is entirely toooo late, and for that I apologize. I had intended to post the results of the contest earlier in the evening, but Mother Nature it seems had other plans for me. I have been fighting off a cold or something for the past several days, and I think I’m finally losing that fight.
All is not lost! I have everyone’s answers and I’m compiling them all into four groups for the four lotteries and will draw the winners tonight. The results will be posted tomorrow morning and I will make efforts to contact the winners (many of you failed to also include your contact info….Boo on you I say!)
Again, I apologize for the delay.
But let’s take this moment to wish Theodor Seuss Geisel a very happy Birthday, and I’d like to personally thank him for his books that my father read to me every night (well, at least until I was four) which inspired me into doing many of the things that I enjoy doing today.
Dr. Seuss, I’m glad I got to grow up with you. Happy Birthday!
…and here’s an added bonus…I received this on my phone during the day. It’s my favorite two little munchkins who I shall forever now refer to as Thing One and Thing Two:
The Last Day Before….
Dr. Seuss Quote of the Day
"Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.."
Seuss Fact:
The line “A person’s a person, no matter how small,” from “Horton Hears a Who!,” has been used as a slogan for anti-abortion organizations. It’s often questioned whether that was Seuss’ intent in the first place, but when he was still alive, he threatened to sue an anti-abortion group unless they removed his words from their letterhead.
-Horton ballpoint pen on paper
Last night folks! Sorry for the late post of this my seventh drawing for the late Dr. Seuss. You didn’t think that I’d actually leave out Horton did you? In all honesty, I almost did. Somehow, I cannot count up to a full week. I realized this morning that I had only drawn six little tributes, thinking that the last day would fall on Seuss’ actual birthday, and the lottery subsequently.
So here we are….seven days, seven drawings, plus three that are available to win. Not a bad week…even if I am exhausted and my mother just gave me grief that I’m doing things for free and other motherly concerns….in all honesty, I kind of blocked her out and started daydreaming of monkeys made of marshmallows having a knife fight in the treetops.
I will draw the names of the three (i mean four) winners tomorrow evening and post the results right afterwards. Until then, keep the guesses coming….I’ll accept them until midday tomorrow.
Day Six of Seven…
Dr. Seuss Quote of the Day
”Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”
Seuss Fact:
Frankenstein’s Monster himself, Boris Karloff, provided the voice of the Grinch, in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and the narration for the movie. Seuss thought his voice might be too scary for kids and all of the high tones in Karloff’s voice were removed in post production. That’s why the Grinch sounds so gravelly.
Also, Thurl Ravenscroft, (the voice behind Tony the Tiger in the old Frosted Flakes commercials) is the voice behind “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” song, although he received no credit on the film.
-Tweedle Beetle
ballpoint pen on paper
With two days left of the Seuss Week, I bring you my little version of the Tweedle Beetle Bottle Battle Bug. There is still time on the contest. There have been a lot of correct answers given by many people, but there are still some with incorrect (albeit very good) guesses as well. I encourage those to give it another shot.
The Things Three…
So here’s a recap of the three drawings that are eligible to be won by you good folks. Like I said at the beginning, it isn’t necessary that you guess all three in order to win anything; the ones that you guess correctly put you into a drawing for that piece. But….here’s an added bonus for those of you who can guess all three correctly (of which, there are several already), there will be one last lottery and one lucky person will win one of the first copies of the Crumbly Nevertheless Collection that I’m currently putting together.
So again, Good Luck!
Thing One
_______
Thing Two
_______
Thing Three
HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above characters. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.
Day Five of Seven…
Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day”
“It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
for the places and people you're lucky you're not.”
Seuss Fact:
“If I Ran the Zoo,” published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word “nerd.”
-Braggarts
ballpoint pen on paper
More than halfway there folks! There are still a few days left for those of you who have made some wrong guesses or who haven’t guessed at all…like I said, I will accept answers all the way up to noon on the 2nd of March, this coming Tuesday, so keep at it! I will be posting the three drawings together in a single post later in the day (I know, I know…I said I’d do this yesterday but I got sidetracked with an overly long power-nap, sorry) to make it easier for everyone to reference them and make their guesses.
Congrats to all of you with correct guesses so far! Your names have all been added into the lottery for the drawings in question.
In related news, the film 2012 will have it’s dvd released on the 2nd of March, Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Coincidence? Yeah, I hope so…
Day Four of Seven…
Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day”
I use the above quote to justify being a hermit….don’t you judge me!
Seuss Fact:
Ted Seuss Geisel was no stranger to political commentary, before and during his children’s book career, and actually said Yertle the Turtle was a representation of Hitler. Despite the political nature of the book, none of that was disputed at Random House — what was disputed was Mack’s, the turtle at the bottom of the stack) burp. No one had ever let a burp loose in a children’s book before, so it was a little dicey. In the end, obviously, Mack burped, and Yertle/Hitler’s reign was over.
-Yertle the Turtle
ballpoint pen on paper
HAPPY HUMP DAY!! Well, at least hump day concerning these the Seven Days of Seuss. We have hit the midway point, and all three of the winnable (is that even a word?) drawings have already been posted. I will post all three together again this evening with the instructions. Many of you have guessed the drawings from Day 1 and Day 3, but Day 2 seems to have the most folks stumped. For those of you who have incorrect guesses (and yes, if you send me your guess, I WILL write back telling you whether it’s correct or not) or have yet to guess at all…there is still time left. I will accept any entries up to noon on Tuesday the 2nd of March….that’s Mountain Time….carry the one and multiply by the remainder….hold the onions…..something something……and scene!
Day Three of Seven…
Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day”
Quite possibly my favorite Seuss quote.
Seuss Fact:
The book, The Lorax, used to contain the line, “I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie,” but 14 years after the book was published, the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss creator Theodore Geisel, and told him how much the conditions had improved and implored him to take the line out. He agreed and said that it wouldn’t be in future editions.
-the Lorax
ballpoint pen on paper
And welcome to the third day of seven for Dr. Seuss! Today’s little tribute is obviously the Lorax, so those of you who have been using the Lorax as your guesses for yesterday’s drawing, you now know to guess again. That’s as much of a hint as I’m going to give at this point….I told you these were going to get more difficult….which brings us to today’s challenge, and the last of the contest three. I will make a post of all three drawings together tomorrow for everyone to continue guessing on, and again, Good Luck!
HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.
Day Two of Seven
Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day”
Seuss Fact:
It’s has been suspected that “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!” was written by Dr. Seuss specifically about Richard Nixon, although he never admitted to that claim. The book came out only two months after the whole Watergate scandal, making it unlikely that the book could have been conceived of, written, edited and mass produced in such a short time. In 1974, he sent a copy of Marvin K. Mooney to his friend Art Buchwald at the Washington Post. In it, he crossed out “Marvin K. Mooney” and replaced it with “Richard M. Nixon,” which Buchwald reprinted in its entirety.
-Marvin K. Mooney
ballpoint pen on paper
Good morning folks! Welcome to this, the second day of seven for Dr. Seuss! Today I share with you my drawing of Mr. Marvin K. Mooney, another one of my favorites…and since I gave the explanation in yesterday’s post about how this week was going to pan out let’s get right to the second drawing for you folks to guess. First, congrats to many of you who have already guessed yesterday’s character, you all make me proud! For those of you who haven’t guessed it yet, don’t worry…you still have 6 days to figure it out. Now, the last two are going to get considerably more difficult, so Good Luck!
HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.
…Good Luck!!
Day One of Seven…
Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day”
”Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
Seuss Fact:
The Cat in the Hat was created when Williams Spaulding (publisher) commissioned Dr. Seuss to write a children’s book that was along the lines of the popular “Dick and Jane” books, encouraging children to read. The catch was that he was only allowed to use 225 words from a list of 400. He decided that if he could find two words from the list that rhymed, they would become the book’s title and subject. Thus, The Cat in the Hat was born, but still took over nine months to complete.
-the Cat in the Hat
ballpoint pen on paper
Good morning folks! Today is the first day of the Seven as I have promised, and what better character to start it off with than The Cat in the Hat? As you can now see, this is what I had in mind as my tribute to one of my favorite authors. I have done a different one for every day of this week.
Now, the above is obviously not part of the contest that I mentioned before…if for no better reason than I have already given you the answer to who this drawing is supposed to be….and having been given the answer, if you found yourself still having difficulties placing the Cat, well then, you probably will not fair all that well in the contest and the rest of us will be forced to laugh at you.
But that’s just it…not the “laughing at you” part, the “guessing the Seuss Character” part. I have done three additional drawings for this week, all of which are what I consider to be more obscure characters from the pages of his books. I will post them here, one today, one tomorrow and the final one the day after that. Your job is to figure out who they are. That’s all there is to it. All correct answers will be used in a drawing of one who will win the drawing in question….so let’s get on to the first of the three:
HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above character. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.
….and that’s how it’ll be. Good Luck!!
Oh the Thinks You Can Think…
March 2nd is the birthday of one of my favorite authors and biggest influences….can you guess who that might be? There is a hint hidden somewhere in this post.
Here's the deal: Starting on Feb. 23rd I will be posting a drawing every day honoring Mr. Geisel on my Crumbly Nevertheless blog (ok…..as well as on here), leading up to his birthday. Each drawing will be my take on one of his characters, with all due respects.
Here's the contest part: Also on the 23rd, I will post three additional drawings, these being of his more obscure characters. These three drawings can be won by those who can guess who they are and what books they are from. The details will be given when the drawings are posted.
So get your Seuss knowledge up to date, sign up to be notified as the contest starts and good luck!
Found in the Grout…
Here are a few old pics….this is what happens when I am bored and stuck at work….
Lacking the Lungs Necessary…
….So, I’m going to take a short hiatus from this here corner of my mind for a bit to finish work on the first Crumbly Nevertheless book…which I hope to make available within the coming month or so. But, I’ll pop in from time to time with a little randomness (like the Totalitarian Twinkie above) and possible book progress updates. And of course I’ll return with a whole new round of ballpoint pen drawing goodness.
So, until we meet again…..
