THE WHALE

Storytime:

… and then he said “If you want to see a really sad movie, watch The Whale… I cried”. Without even thinking, a million whale thoughts ran through my head. Their majestic and gentle nature, the sound they make when talking to each other across the vast ocean, the iconic breach that morphs into a logo in the Pacific Life Insurance commercials. (I’m so happy that at least some animals can afford health insurance though). Right away I just blurted out: “I can’t, I can’t bare to watch movies with sad situations for animals, I just lose it. No, I don’t care how many awards it won, I’m not watching The Whale. I can only hope that when he’s super lonely and feeling blue, even if he’s a humpback, that his barnacles will keep him company”…

Disclaimer: Although some parts of this story are in fact, grounded in true events, the names, dates, genders, ethnicities, and dietary preferences have been changed to protect the innocent.

DEEP FUTURE

What will the deep future be like? Who knows, probably weird and filled with hateful assholes just like today. But, I'm sure a boy and a cat will find each other somewhere in the underbelly of a decaying mega city and have some adventures just the same...

GERMS

Kyle was like: "Let's just go hang out for a little while with Lermus and Cigs, it'll be fun bro, we can play squish and watch America's Last Mitochondria on the big screens... It'll be great bro"

But, it wasn't great, and Jeremy knew it wasn't going to be great because he knew that Lermus and Cigs were always looking for a fight after a few pints, and next thing you know they're in the middle of the veins of London ruckusing with eosinophilses twice their potency...

NECK RELATED RUIN

I haven't been posting that many sketches/drawings lately. FB/Insta has squeezed reach to a trickle unless you pay them so it's largely useless. But, aside from that, I feel like I haven't been able to concentrate lately for some reason. Like too many things going on all at once in my head. I think it's tied to my neck always hurting me. Like, always... Thinking back to my childhood. I wonder if it was my slacker-posture that started me down the road of neck-related ruin. It certainly couldn't have been the head-banging to all manors of metal musics.

[Full disclosure here though, this depiction of me as a kid is a touch off, I could brood with the best of them, but my hair was never that cool]

Mates

It's great to have a few mates to hang out with isn't it? Nossy, Abelard, and Bardolf are always keen to enjoy a quiet night catfishing when they can free up their busy schedules. They catch and release the fish, but won't let any tasty late night skinny dippers pass them by. Yum...

LITOROSUCHUS

The limber Litorosuchus. One of my favorite non-archosaur archosauriforms. Man, the Triassic was a weird time. This 7 foot long scamp was semi-aquatic but could run on his hind legs if someone was ringing the dinner bell a short distance away.

COMPSOGNATHUS

Next up in my little book of interesting dinos is Compsognathus! This cute little scamp scurried around the warm underbrush in the Late Jurassic looking for snacks. They were about the size of a turkey, which means if those wacky scientist ever bring back the long dead non-avian Saurischians, some rich asshole will have a backyard full of these kids running around trying to escape.

(in Australian voice: "They rememba...")

NEW GIRL IN TOWN

This weekend marks 2 months with our new girl Heidy. We named her Heidi because she is super timid and hides a lot. So its Hidey, Heidi, Heidy... She hasn't decided exactly how to spell it yet but that ambiguity is rather trendy now days anyway. She's originally from Houston TX but that, her approximate age, and that she had a slight criminal record for biting a staff member at the shelter was all the information we received about her. I image she hung out in the dusty shrubs with some shady armadillos back in Houston (as depicted here). Or perhaps she worked for NASA and things were going well but got caught in the floodplain disaster and had to pack it in and move north. Either way, she and Sagan are pals and are tearing our place up every night between 4 and 6:30 am.

ZOMBIE VALENTINES

Here is the 1st Valentine's Day card/image I made. Feel free to download/print it out for your sweetheart next week. Message me if you want to personalize the message and we can work out a quick deal.

FFROGSTARR 3021

(Low voice voice-over guy): "In a worlds full danger and mayhem there stands one ectothermic vertebrate above the rest... He's willing to stand for justice on any planet, in-so-far as it has appropriate access to warm liquid ponds within hopping distance... FFrogStarr 3021, coming this summer to a marsh near you."

KENDRA AND THE COBBLER

Kendra: "I'm so excited, my shoes are going to be done at the cobbler on Friday!"

Me: "Stop it!"

(There is no such thing as cobblers anymore) hahaha

ANTEOSAURUS

It's hard to get any respect when you're a Permian synapsid. People tend to think of dinosaurs as the worlds most terrifying prehistoric beasts, but Anteosaurus was the real deal. The largest predator the Earth had ever seen to that point. Head to body size ration was crazy off kilter. Anteosaurus spent their days looking for snacks and tearing up the flood plains of what is now South Africa (Southern Pangaea). It took another 50 million years before anyone else came around that came close to this guys swagger.

SALTOPUS

If you can get over the grossness of having a largely insectivorous diet, than being a little Saltopus might not have been so bad. Being about the size of a house cat and having a pelvis and hind legs built for scampering at high speeds through the undergrowth of ferns and horsetails, one might find a pretty favorable existence in the Late Triassic. Not much is known about the Saltopus other than they were found in present day Scotland. Pictured here without his kilt though.