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Here's a pic of Evan taken by Elgin
The Subway Surfer taken while we did some caricatures in the park.



Check out the professional drawing posture.

Labels: caricatures, drawing

Some sketches from our most recent visit to
Stout a big, dark, crowded, noisy bar in midtown NYC.

I sent out my monthly newsletter this afternoon. Because I'm not too good with the htlm I sent the letter out with a paypal button to order my NEW BOOK, "Don't Brag About Your Nuts" and the button doesn't work! For anyone who wishes to purchase the book click on this picture


to get to the paypal button that DOES work. Or, simply find me at
MoCCA on June 7th & 8th. I'll have the book there.

So after Aki Sushi Lauren, Peter and I went over to
Gotham Hall where style meets sophistication, to attend a UF fundraiser and awards dinner. I met with many fine, upstanding University Alumni. These folks take their school spirit very seriously. Go Gators!

Lauren, Peter (Goldberg) and I got to the big UF alumni event a little early last week, so we stopped into Aki Sushi for a pre-game beer. It was 5pm so the place wasn't hopping yet. Not much going on at all in fact, though we did see them serve a pretty unusual appetizer.

Lauren & Peter were talking about sales and Lauren explained what
Spiff is. I worked four years for a firm that specialized in sales incentives and had never heard the term Spiff!

Last Sunday we went to our storage unit in Brooklyn to visit all of our stuff. While Lauren and I suffer exile in NJ, we have most of our things in Brooklyn. We just acquired some more stuff from Lauren's parents and went to add that to what's already there - books, furnishings, kitch & kitchen items all stacked and boxed and waiting to be set free. Frankly I'm a little worried about our possessions. It's been five months plus two or three more before we move back to the city. Not exactly "hard time" but prison changes things. Our chairs and sofas will be just a little harder. Our books and clothes a bit rougher around the edges. We heard rumors that half of our fine bone china has fallen in with Aryan skin heads and the other half with the Triads. This info came from a set of measuring cups. Despite being built for precision they do tend to exaggerate.

Way, way back, in the days when "Old School" was just "School" I was fiction editor of the Prattler, Pratt Institutes school newspaper. I had a segment called Haiku corner. Each issue I'd sort through hundreds of haikus that were submitted - all of them from the same two guys who'd get stoned and write poetry - and pick the best. Because most of the haikus I recieved started with the line, "Man, I am soooooo high!" I would occasionally write my own haikus to spice things up a bit. That's actually a good tip for all you aspiring writers and poets out there. If you want to be published, it's good to be the editor. That's how I got this little gem in the paper:

All the ladies love
Ernie the dolphin because
he doesn't wear pants

Now that I'm oh so much older, my material is more mature. I wrote this haiku this morning:

Now with all this hair
in my nose I wonder why
my nose still gets cold

I'm working on this weeks Super Delegates for FOTM. This week I'm covering the SD's from Arkansas. Very exciting. I'm going in alphabetical order by state. Arkansas is the last of the "A" states. Next week I start on the "B" states.

Last night I did some caricatures at Temple Shaaray Tefila's Purim Carnival. Purim, for those of you who choose not to follow the link I so kindly provided, is kind of like a Jewish Halloween. Why, you might ask, do Jews need Halloween when so many of them dress funny all year round? This would prompt me to comment that I didn't realize you were such an anti-semite and then we'd start punching and slapping each other until one of us gets a bloody nose. Probably me.