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I just scratched this little fellow out while half-listening to a TV show my girlfriend was watching.  I don't know who or what he is, but painting him made me feel a little better.

The logo of the fictional Union Broadcasting System (UBS) television network, from the brilliant Sidney Lumet film Network.  Recreated using screenshots from the film.  I thought I might someday use this to make a microphone flag, or maybe some novelty press credentials.

If you haven't seen Network yet watch it ASAP, preferably without looking up any plot points or spoilers beforehand.  It's a requirement for membership in the human race.

Texted one friend asking for a profession, and another asking for animals.  I got back secretary, chipmunk, and ball python.  This is the result, done in ten minutes on my lunch break.

In response to the current kerfuffle going on in Neil Gaiman's corner of the Internet, the affable @mistressmousey suggested her artist acquaintances draw this elusive creature known as the pencil-necked little weasel.

So sorry, etc.

Digital illustration of the different TARDIS keys seen over the years on Doctor Who.

Multiple screenshots of each were used as reference material to ensure that even the bumps on the normal-key-style keys are locksmith-accurate.  I'm sort of a dork like that.

The background is this NASA photo, which was widely enjoyed by Who fandom as it resembles a real-life version of the show's "Crack in the Universe."  For extra giggles I drew the keychain in the shape of the Crack.

One thing I've been coming back to a lot recently is a song by Information Society called "Where the I Divides."

This is me getting some emotional stuff through my system by singing it to myself, accompanied only by a soft drizzle and some late-night/early-morning city traffic outside my apartment window.

Making captchart has quickly become one of my favorite ways of fishing for ideas and/or killing time.

Sources: "The Hungry Earth" (© BBC) and this guy (PD).

"Bell Odyssey" - This phone-phreaking-themed parody of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" was written by RBCP for issue 39 of the Phone Losers of America zine, which was released on July 27, 1996. Thirteen years later to the day, I released my own performance of the song.

The release date was entirely coincidental; I randomly got the urge to record the old track, spent a few days putting it together, and just happened to finish and release it on July 27, 2009.  RBCP later informed me that it just happened to be the song's 13th anniversary.  I blame the ghost of David Bowie; he isn't dead of course, but that's certainly never stopped him before.

Soon after I posted this, my colleagues at Off the Hook surprised me by using it as the closing song on the July 29, 2009 episode while I was away from the show.  RADIO AIRPLAY!

The genuine phone company recordings used in this track came from ThisIsARecording.com.

This song is downloadable as an MP3 from PLA's songs page.

I don’t know who this is or why he’s saying a lightbulb, I only know that I scribbled him in about half a minute on a sparsely-populated city bus due to not wanting to have my netbook and drawing tablet out on a sparsely-populated city bus for longer than half a minute.

A true story starring myself, my cats, and nypl.