A Short Graphic Story Follow-up To My Fish In Brooklyn Doodle.

A short graphic story follow-up to my fish in Brooklyn doodle.

Street and subway reference images from Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan (I'm fairly certain).

Melodramatic people seldom make good traveling partners

While traveling near Machu Picchu, 

He dabbed at his tears with a tissue.

He said "Life is pain."

I replied with distain,

"You wouldn't know joy if it bit you."

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

- James Nicoll

English Is Essentially __________.

“English is essentially Norse as spoken by a gang of French thugs.”—Benct Philip Jonsson

“English is essentially a language that uses vowels no other language would accept.”—Luís Henrique

“English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.”—Bryan Maloney

“English is essentially a French menu stuttered by a fish-and-chips dealer.”—Kala Tunu

“English is essentially the works of Joyce with the hard bits taken out.”—Jon Hanna

“English is essentially all exceptions and no rules.”—Jonathan Bettencourt

—A selection of “Essentialist Explanations.” Thanks to the Penguin Press for pointing out this gem.

The framed, Park City, Utah, Banksy

There's a... fly on a bump on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

A Bacterium on a Diatom on an Amphipod

I see a lot of science stuff, and it’s pretty hard to get me to say “wow” … Just kidding, I say it all the time!

Definitely said it when I saw this wonderful representation of the scale differences between the domains of life. In one picture! Just remember, there’s about a trillion of those little bacteria on and in you all the time, just that tiny.

Subway poster scratch-art.