So much of local politics in red states comes down to choosing the least whack Republican. If you’re voting for a lone, doomed Dem in the primary, you’re wasting a vote for a worthless gesture.
Do I think Sidney Sweeney is this nuanced and engaged? No. But it’s worth remembering how this works.
Yes. I am just using this controversy as an excuse to get back on my high horse.
But if you post a bunch about politics but don’t actually understand the system enough to make sure your vote makes a difference in your community, be better.
This does not matter but the whole “Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican in Florida” thing doesn’t mean shit.
I spent 8 years in Idaho as a registered Republican.
If you live in a red state with closed primaries (like Florida) and you register D you’re throwing away your primary vote.
Gimme the think pieces about the choice of outdoor gear in “Mountainhead”!
DPS skis feel…almost right, but not bougie enough. Same goes for the Polaris onesies.
I can’t believe that we’re getting suckered by AI visuals this soon after the whole NFT boom and bust.
Guys. We’ve seen these dumbasses plans for the world. They’re stupid and depressing.
Why shouldn’t we believe the tech bros who have famously never been wrong about this shit?
Spent the last few days painting a couple murals. Absolute bucket list experience.
The metaverse sucks ass. But the mural transfer potential of these goggles is sick AF.
Also. The metaverse seems full of fitness apps. Why in the fuck would anyone go to this hellscape to work on their fitness!?
I put on these dorky goggles to escape the limitations of my puny body, not to be made painfully aware of them!
Gonna be fit-n-dis weirdass control in your face.
Everything in the metaverse costs extra money. This is real money. Not meta money.
Finally, I accidentally entered a virtual world. It was full of people. They made fun of my avatar which was bald. They called me “Mr. Clean.” I wanted to make like the biblical prophet Elijah and call in some bears to eat them. But I do not have bear friends in the metaverse yet.
I have also watched YouTube (with the screen really big) and gotten motion sick.
So far I have scrolled Instagram (with the screen really big) and gotten motion sick.
Just entered the virtual realities (mural project that I need VR for) and so far I gotta say, everything is anticlimactic in the metaverse.
Also: imagine the last holdout of civilisation in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem being Jackson. lol. No. It’s Rexburg all day, everyday. I don’t like it, but it’s true. Those are hardy folk.
This is the least important thing but: The Last Of Us has a hilarious relationship with the geography of the Jackson Hole region. We never get a Teton skyline in “Jackson” but as soon Ellie leaves town and rides for weeks we get shots of the north end of the Park?
Has anyone else been driven nuts by the Grammarly ad on YouTube where the narrator says “weary” when they clearly mean “wary”? Hilarious annoyance in an ad in a copy editing software.
Little detail from a last minute commission. Got the assignment around 4 yesterday, and managed to turn around a full-page editorial illustration in about 22 hours. Now to catch up on all the stuff I pushed aside to make that happen!
Bike comics! nsmb.com/articles/rac...
Made this little process layout for each of the primary steps in my latest illustration. Still on a raccoon kick for the foreseeable future.
Everything is fucked but I saw two (2) TWO!!!! raccoons this morning so I’m doing pretty ok.
Sketched out a bunch of concepts, didn’t go with any of them.
Finally rode a modern e-mtb this week (not just the sketchy e-tandem I rode at Interbike a decade ago) and by far my biggest takeaway is that XC bikes are way more fun, without any of the ethical/access/general ick issues.
Like. Holy shit. XC bikes are so much fun.
Posting stuff here that the insta hordes don’t get to see yet. Here are a couple of pages from a new project.
This is a frozen snake my friend found. It’s pretty neat.
Aaaand here I am in the “who the fuck knows!?” period too.
A dog standing on a grid of paintings of animals.
Here is my dog checking out the first twenty pages of a book I’m working on. She is not impressed.
I bet if you put a couple of those new Nutella-filled Uncrustables in an air fryer it would slaaaaaap.
Yes. This is the level of discourse I plan on bringing to new social medial platforms. But also, imagine the crispy fried outside with molten Nutella filling.
