Mechanical Bull
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Well I tell ya, what with all this redecorating and all this hustle and bustle, I’m exhausted. In fact, I haven’t worked this hard since I rode the mechanical bull in front of Knob Hill Farms back in ‘85. For only a quarter I was treated to the thunderous character-building bucks and kicks that only a robot-rodeo could provide. I always felt sorry for those kids bouncing around in the inflatable castle, or those saps riding around in the merry-go-space-ship. Those silly fools were never prepared to face the spinning torrent of life. Mechanical bull life.
These days it’s been a duel agenda; I’ve been holding on and staying focused. On the Misanthropia front, all is well. After a rousing flogging by my editor, I hit the drawing board and re-invigorated book one with some additional pages and some edited text.
Simultaneously, I’ve also been adding some newness to my portfolio. It’s nothing profound, but I’ve been wanting to diversify and show some dynamism.
So that’s my story, but before I saunter off you can check out two pages that didn’t make the portfolio cut. It’s not that I’m not proud of them, there just wasn’t any real context for them among my other work… and they sort of go nowhere. I’ll colour them in the future but until then, enjoy.
I’m off to the farm to brave the bull.
