Yes We Can !!!

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If I was good with celebratory sketches, this would have gone up last night, but I was, um, *cough* celebrating into the wee hours of the morning. Like a true party nerd, I was furiously typing messages over IM and Facebook while knocking back croranges in my frorc house! (If you don't understand, you never will.) It was the most social activity I've had in years.

So now I've crawled out of bed (feeling great, btw) just in time to crawl back in it again. Not a bad way to spend a day!

Tomorrow I'm traveling to DC again. As long as I can hijack an internet connection down there, I will keep on posting here from my laptop. If not, well, now you know why. I'll be back home on Tuesday.

Things are looking up!

I think what I like best about this sketch is how SLOPPY this horrible pun is! Does it even make sense? I mean, if Suzette perceives that she may be labeled as a "thing" then there will be blood! Best of all: The copyright information placed *just so* to muddle the idea even more. SPECTACULAR FAIL!

Also...check out the arrogance in posting this before any election returns are in! Look, barring MASSIVE election fraud, Obama has this thing. But with the last two elections...

You know what? Fuck it! I have been a cynic through this entire election cycle and I'm going to let myself get carried away for now. Heck, as I typed that last sentence I just sent my brother out to buy me celebratory booze. (My first liquor purchase in about... two years... wow.)

I may eat my words later, but at least I'll be drunk. Alcohol always gives me the munchies and all I have here are rice cakes. My words are scrumptious!

Today's the big day!

DO IT!

I bet you'll vote this time, hippy!

Sketched this out while watching the Obama special.

Hey, DC has art museams. Who knew?

We went to see the Richard Avedon exhibition at the Corcoran today. The retrospective featured his photographs relating to power - be it political, social or artistic. Very, uh, powerful. Photos spanned from 1964 to 2004, when his brain exploded. The "final" image was a portrait of Obama from the 2004 Democratic convention. *sigh*

That was all good and stuff, but what really piqued my interest when browsing the gallery brochure was an exhibition of satirical cartoons going back three centuries. Cool! Honoré Daumier's hilarious lithographs from the 1800's was the highlight, but the coolest tidbit came from former Washington Post cartoonist, Clifford Berryman. In 1902, he heard a story about Teddy Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear brought to his hunting grounds in a weakened state to be easy prey. (You know, like how Dick Cheney enjoys shooting tame and injured quail in between blowing the faces off lawyers.) The resulting cartoon made the bear look cute and innocent, to show Teddy's nobility in sportsmanship.



Dude created the teddy bear! I love these little history tidbits! Years later, the teddy model was perfected with the glorious Josh Bear.



(I have no idea if this is *the* Josh Bear or not. It's not like Josh reads this, so he won't complain!)

Anywho, here's a god-awful teddy bear sketch. Honestly, just killing time before dinner here. Woo!