I've done my time in corporateland, mainly in meetings. Christ! don't people just love the sound of their own voice. The thing about meetings is that nothing gets accomplished in them or even as a result of them. Work gets done by individuals, real people, not consultants. But if you do get trapped in a meeting, the only way to stay sane is to hold your notebook at an angle so you can pretend to be taking notes, pretend to be paying attention, while in actual fact you're doodling for dear life... for dear mind... Boredom is toxic, don't you know? Better to have no job than to be bored 12 hours a day.
Oh, I almost forgot: audio track "newbjorne" composed and performed by MM, copyright s r schwarz 2011, all rights reserved.
NIGHTMERRIES: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF DARKNESS This so-called "book" will chew you up, spit you out, and leave you twitching and frothing on the carpet. More than 60 dark and feculent fictions (read ‘em and weep) copiously illustrated by over 20 grotesque images you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
AWAREWOLF & OTHER CRHYMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Vot could be Verse?) We all hate poetry, right? But we might make an exception for this sick and twisted stuff. This devil's banquet of adults-only offal features more than 50 satanic sonnets, vitriolic verses and odious odes.
MANIC MEMES & OTHER MINDSPACE INVADERS A disturbing repository of quotably quirky quotes, sayings, proverbs, maxims, ponderances, adages and aphorisms. This menagerie holds no fewer than 184 memes from eight meme-species perfectly adapted to their respective environments.
MASTRESS & OTHER TWISTED TAILS, ILLUSTRATED: an unholy corpus of oddities, strangelings, bizarritudes and peculiaritisms
FIENDS & FREAKS Adults-only Tales of Serpents, Dragons, Devils, Lobsters, Anguished Spirits, Gods, Anti-gods and Other Horse-thieves You Wouldn't Want to Meet in a Dark Kosmos: 4th Edition
HAGS TO HAGGIS Whiskey-soaked Tails of War-nags, Witches, Manticores and Escapegoats, Debottlenecking and Desilofication, Illustrated
Most of my doodling has been done in classes. I hate meetings with a passion. It always boils down to blah blah blah you employees are doing this wrong blah blah blah we have some new crappy busy work for you blah blah blah no we've never actually been out there doing the work you do but we know best. Plus, it's hard for me to stay awake during these dull blather-fests.
Yes, staying awake can be a real challenge! The air is alwqays either two cold or too hot because some alien life form dressed as a human has demanded the thermostat be set at some ridiculous number (insult to aliens, sorry)., The voices drone on and on... the slides have a strangely hypnotic effect: death by powerpoint! I sincerely believe that meetings are in the top 5 reasons why human culture is going to the dogs (which is an insult to dogs, sorry). The weird thing about meetings is they don't actually solve or even help to solve the problems/issues the meeting was convened to address. No, quite the contrary, meetings create problems, they don't solve them., Strewth!
There was no comment box below the nanofauna painting video, so I'll leave my comment here. I LOVED it! The painting and the music were a n excellent trip together, and the painting is a wonderful combination of mid-century vitalism with aboriginal elements. This is splendid.
Best,
Puny
Hi puny human, thanks for your comments. Made me feel rather good. Also inspired me to include a new sidebar element that you can click to see a list of all MM's artworks.
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