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You Say Potato, I Say Endless Possibilities

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Aside from being a cartoonist, I’m also a dad. And part of my dad day is our pre-dessert family play time.

Often this consists of playing with our collection (four, I think) of Mr. Potato Heads. And after a few years, you can’t help but experiment a bit with the form.

So, I present some of the spuds I’m proudest of:

The Mad Scientist:

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Turning the head and the eyes and smile upside down give it that crazy vibe, while turning the head itself over gives you that gamma-irradiated super brain look!

The Stephen King:

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I can imagine this being an early King book – “Fore Hand.”

Screamer:

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Turning the body around allows that back hatch thing to act as a nice mouth (with protruding lower lip), and you’re sorta forced to put the eyes on top. Add some raised hands your potato can have his very own philosophical crisis!

Screamer 2:

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Again, the back hole (this time sans hatch) acts as the mouth, but I’m especially proud of the tongue in the nose hole. Turn the head upside down again and you’ve got potato that just can’t take it anymore!

And finally…

The Stegosaurus:

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Turn in on its back, add some extra arms, and fill the front face holes with tongues and there you go!

Hope you liked ’em!

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If Lynch Gets To Talk About Trek…

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I was starting to look for toys for my son for Christmas and browsing action figures at Amazon when I came across some Star Wars stuff I thought was interesting.

I’m aware that Star Wars has a million different characters offshoot books, but I’m really impressed/frightened with how deep the merchandising goes.

Check this out; it’s General Grievous from that abysmal third prequel, except that it’s not. It’s apparently what the guy looked like before he became mostly robot and got that nagging cough:

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I have to admit some curiosity about the character’s origins, but this seems a bit of a reach for me.

Then there’s this Boba Fett, not as he appeared in the movies, but in his very first appearance on the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special:

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Now these two, I might actually be interested in owning. They’re action figures based on the original Ralph McQuarrie art for the movies:

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Neat huh?

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Goooooo… MEAT!

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As you’ve probably surmised, I’m really into grilling.

I’m not one of these guys with the smoker trailer competing on weekends or anything, and I’m not ordering exotic spices or olive oils online, but I do love to grill.

So when my wonderful wife suggested I take some grilling classes at the local Weber Grill restaurant, I jumped at it.

They’re really fun; very much a live cooking show, except the audience is filled with doughy guys who like to talk meat.

I’ve been to three so far, and yesterday’s was all about tailgating food. They cooked a tenderloin, some chicken wings, chili, shrimp and sausage skewers, pizza… whew!

And then we get to eat it:

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They also talk drinks quite a bit. Last time it was bourbons, this weekend it was beers and, at the end of the class, a margarita.

The really cool part of the margarita was, since we’re talking tailgating, the blender is gas-powered. It’s a pull-start from cryin’ out loud.

Here it is from class:

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And here’s a picture from BlenderBlaster’s site:

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I don’t even tailgate and I want one!

Anyway, I’m still stuffed full of various meats and I need to lie down.

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A Tale Of Two Pizzas

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My wife and I like pizza. And this summer we’re branching out a bit.

Check out a slice of this recent dessert pizza:

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My wife made the crust, slathered it in Nutella, and then sprinkled chopped semi-sweet and white chocolate and hazelnuts. Warm it up and add a glass of milk. Yummy yum yum!

And I grilled, yes, grilled, pizza last night for dinner.

Throw some frozen dough on the grill…

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…add fresh pesto, cheese, artichoke hearts, roasted red pepper, olives and pepperoni, grill for a bit more, and voilà!

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Mmm… Pizza!

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Line Rider

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LineriderI think I meant to write about this a while back (or maybe I did and I forgot), but if you haven’t wasted an afternoon toying with Line Rider, you haven’t wasted an afternoon!

It’s deceptively simple; you draw a line, press play and a little guy on a sled rides the line.  Once you get the basic concept, the sky’s the limit.

Check out this example:

Isn’t that crazy?!

I’m tempted to do a gag cartoon and see what happens.  Maybe somehow work the sledder into the joke somehow…

Maybe once I get about 100 other things that actually need to get done finished.

Anyway, enjoy!

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