Mark Evanier has a problem with people stealing Mel Torme from him. I think i'm gonna do it, too.
Probably no surprise that i'm doing it different than most. I'm not stealing his marvelous Xmas Mel tale, i'm stealing his Mushroom Soup. And Mel.
You see, when Mark gets too busy to blog, he throws up a mushroom soup graphic. When i'm here but having trouble posting, i think ol' Mel is going to be my signal.
Likely i'm not too busy to post. More probably it's a matter of not being able to communicate, or being unable to gather mental traction, or simply brooding. As a Hermit, as an Artist, as an American without an America... I'm way behind in my contractually obligated brooding.
Maybe next time we see Mel, i'll catch up on some of that here. For now, i've been scraping off the past couple days and starting to prep a return of L.B. Cole; and not the Funny Animals this time.
Hmm...
Actually, it might be the first for L.B. Cole here rather than the 1940s Funny Animalphabet.
So we're overdue.
Anyway... When you see Mel, you know i'm still alive and here, just not ... Here.
Probably no surprise that i'm doing it different than most. I'm not stealing his marvelous Xmas Mel tale, i'm stealing his Mushroom Soup. And Mel.
You see, when Mark gets too busy to blog, he throws up a mushroom soup graphic. When i'm here but having trouble posting, i think ol' Mel is going to be my signal.
Likely i'm not too busy to post. More probably it's a matter of not being able to communicate, or being unable to gather mental traction, or simply brooding. As a Hermit, as an Artist, as an American without an America... I'm way behind in my contractually obligated brooding.
Maybe next time we see Mel, i'll catch up on some of that here. For now, i've been scraping off the past couple days and starting to prep a return of L.B. Cole; and not the Funny Animals this time.
Hmm...
Actually, it might be the first for L.B. Cole here rather than the 1940s Funny Animalphabet.
So we're overdue.
Anyway... When you see Mel, you know i'm still alive and here, just not ... Here.
It's MEL! (No, i didn't steal it from ME. Mine's better)
Draw a picture of Mel sitting on top of a toadstool. Then you can call it Mushroom Mel. Hey, he wouldn't have minded - he was a fungi.
ReplyDelete(If you look up the 'difference' between mushrooms and toadstools, you'll see why I can get away with using both words.)
I'm picturing him more relaxing beneath the toadstool/mushroom cap. (I can use both at the same time)
ReplyDeleteI've got to thank you for the image that's building in my head with the brightly coloured music-note-raindrops splashing down around him. This could turn out to be a painting, not a quick sketch...
Don't forget my 10% - which, as you're not getting paid for the painting, shouldn't make much of a dent in your funds.
DeleteYeah, let's see a painting.
Tell ya what -
DeleteIf the painting happens, i'll send you a print of it. That's a fair bit more than 10% of nothing, right?
Right. And I'll make it easier for you by just 'saving' a copy of it when you eventually post it.
DeleteThe difference being that the original art is typically 12x18 inches, or 20"x30" - so what gets posted to the blog is greatly reduced and sometimes much can be lost.
DeleteOf course, right now it's purely aetheric and non-transferable. So it's all moo.