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i want to sing 22.11 20:27

twenty years on (life is too short mk ii) 22.11 20:08

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A week ago today it occurred to me, that date, the 15th November marked the twenty-year anniversary of me starting my first “real job” out of college i.e. as a junior copywriter for Leo Burnett, the big ad agency in Chicago.

It’s been a hell of a trip since then. Glad I ended up where I did; though damn, I wish it hadn’t taken me so frickin’ long.

Every day that I’m alive, the cartoon above gets ...

live forever 22.11 17:49

scotland cartoon 20.11 21:16

liberation 20.11 21:15

coming through town 20.11 21:14

i want to believe 20.11 21:12

what people say 20.11 21:11

it’s not a city 20.11 21:10

t-shirt idea 20.11 21:08

somebody save me 20.11 21:07

shaving 20.11 21:05

untitled 091120a 20.11 21:03

untitled 091120 20.11 21:01

soviet 20.11 21:00

life isn’t fucked 17.11 00:43

history of my blog 16.11 01:23

with porn, all things are pos­si­ble 15.11 16:40

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[Originally published November 29, 2005:]

I was having a long con­ver­sa­tion with a friend last night about “Busi­ness Porn”:

Busi­ness Porn is just like Ordi­nary Porn or Real Estate Porn, except ins­tead of it being about the women we wished we could sleep with, or the hou­ses we wish we owned, it’s about all those cool, luc­ra­tive, exci­ting jobs and busi­nes­ses that we wish we had, ins­tead of the nor­mal, tedious, sch­leppy crap...

the killer app 15.11 00:47

grim reaper 14.11 23:30

inspired 14.11 20:19

the miracle of creation 09.11 19:02

untitled 091109 09.11 19:01

so what’s your message 09.11 17:19

faq’s 08.11 22:25

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When I set up gapingvoid.com back in May, 2001, I drew this cartoon for the FAQ page.

As you can see, I still wasn’t quite over my crazy-ass New York life yet… even if that had ended over a year before.

I foresee my work getting quieter and more lyrical over the next few years. Less rock and roll, more Phillip Glass, to use a musical allegory.

Yes, I’m really looking forward to it. Can’t wait!

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