IMT: swirl (and IF: legendary)

My wife (who I’ll call “Mrs. Pincus”) and I have had a running joke for 27 years. We met in February 1982 and had our first date soon after. Our conversation was always great. We found that we had so many common interests. The joke was that we would never ask each other: “So, what …

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from my sketchbook: jimmy boyd

I research a lot. I am always scouring the far reaches of the internet for interesting stories to illustrate. Several weeks ago I came across the story of Jimmy Boyd. In 1946, seven-year-old Jimmy Boyd was singing with his brother at a barn dance in Colton, California. He was approached by a local radio host …

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IMT: bamboo

The inspirational word on inspiremethursday.com is “bamboo”. House of Bamboo (as recorded at various times by Earl Grant, Andy Williams and Southern Culture on the Skids) Number fifty-four/The house with the bamboo door/Bamboo roof and bamboo walls/They’ve even got a bamboo floor! You must get to know/Soho Joe/He runs an Expresso/Called the House of Bamboo. …

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from my sketchbook: wolfman jack

In 1960, 22 year-old budding DJ Robert Smith began his career as “Daddy Jules” on a Newport News, Virginia station. In 1962, Smith moved to a station in Shreveport, Louisiana and became “Big Smith”. It was here that he first began to develop his famous alter ego Wolfman Jack. Later in ’62, Smith was recruited …

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IF: breezy

The challenge word this week on Illustration Friday is “breezy”. Even with the advancements in technology, pinpoint accuracy in monitoring devices and sophisticated prediction equipment, TV weathermen still don’t know what the hell they are talking about.