Get out the Brilliantine and dime cigars
I don’t hate or love this photo but it is fun to see what I seem to be at 0615.
Not quite “bright” and early. But it is early!
Inaugural Swim
Malcolm killed in ‘65. Bobby and MLK killed in ‘68. This movie: ‘80. 40 years later and cops are bastards and computers are against you and Nazis suck and you gotta hustle to beat the system. We’re on a mission from god.
Sunday slot because I missed Tuesday or they’re closed Monday. 73 hours to new President.
Beat the heat
Stuff on the wall.
Poolside
morning lighting
New Bot Day! MOGUERA (1994) stands for Mobile Operation Godzilla Universal Expert Robot Aero-type—it was built by the United Nations out of leftover pieces of Mechagodzilla and was designed to fight SpaceGodzilla. It can transform: Land Moguera & Star Falcon. I took a hiatus for new bots over the holiday: now they’re back!
3FT 6IN NO DIVING
angles
New year, new sweater.
Sic transit gloria mundi
with fog
New Bot Day! From the 2010 Adult Swim Flash game “Robot Unicorn Attack.” No matter what, the Robot Unicorn (with a rainbow mane and tail!) charges forward as long as they can! Learn from the Robot Unicorn and forward gallop into the future and stomp on evil. Giddy-up!
Morning light is underrated. Pre-shave.
Temperature differential
Of course there’s still good in the world. But you have to put in work if you expect to see more of it.
Dawn Patrol/Spring Valley
NO DIVING
San Diego Botanic Gardens (called Quail Botanic Garden from 1970 to 2009) was awesome
“You ain’t a local if you don’t snorkel”
Rotsy
Pooling
On the phone with @chrisgreazel takin’ notes
52F but clear. Brisk. Perfect.
Windy, chilly, 54F. On it still.
NO SURFING SURFING NO BEACH BEACH GAMES GAMES
Later, the sky was afire
Stormy day but the sun snuck out
Walkies
Low tide shell haul from Dog Beach
In the 1980s I loved to make Christmas/New Years/Holiday cards. I drew this Technocratic, nearly cyberpunk Santa with a Micron Pigma pen in size 005. That’s still an excellent pen. 32 years later I’ve refined and colored him digitally. I didn’t do paper greeting cards this year. Maybe next year. It’s been an impossibly hard year, and my drawings have comforted me. Be well, take care.
New Bot Day! Merry Christmas 2020! Super Space Giant is a small tin replica of a Horikawa robot design from 1955 or so. He is Dwarfed by Futurama’s Robot Santa and flanked by a little green bot I got at Kobey’s Swap Meet. Merry Christmas & Stay Safe!
Christmas Crayon time.
I like how festive the Y was yesterday. Belated Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas Eve.
Swimming was the Christmas gift.
Interrupted seagull. Fog breaking slow this morning.
I don’t think it’s always darkest before the dawn
Foggy Star of India
The times when I am mentally exhausted are the best times to swim.
Last weekend we walked from La Jolla Shores to Scripps Pier during the King Tide.
every morning different
Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve pools unavailable. Next Thursday swim will be in 2021.
Dawn
Sun: rising
It’s enough to keep going
Six items found at La Jolla Shores during this morning’s King Tide.
California replaced “army men.” Solid improvement over a sharpshooter or a guy with a mortar. Found at Shores.
A lot of folks went to La Jolla Shores to check out the King Tide at 715am.
Little tree.
Finishing up another streak of weekdays
New Bot Day! Captain Rex (RX-24) is from a theme park! Built for Disneyland’s Star Tours (1987) attraction piloting a Starspeeder 3000, imperfectly. Paul Rubens provided the voice. After years of service he’s now known as R-3X and is a DJ in Oga’s Cantina at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge (2019). Here’s to getting safely back to Disneyland in 2021!
Did you know?
0815 slot
Water balm
Overcast morn
New Bot Day! Evila is a “clever and dangerous sexy robot reporter” from the game Space Channel 5 (originally on Dreamcast, 1999). She joins other videogame bots in the family!
Illustration by Lucille Corcos —in the 1941 book A Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan. I just watched Topsy-Turvy for the nth tine and it never fails to fascinate me. I suspect it has inaccuracies but it captures an aspect of the creative process I treasure.
This smell: of fresh vegetables being washed in a mist of water—it makes me feel the memory of visiting my grandfather Art Silva (we called him tata: a Yaqui word for “father”) at a Big Bear or Food Basket. He’s be there taking care of the produce department: crisp shirt and tie and an apron. My mother adored him, while smaller me saw how impressive he was, a professional in command of his domain and offering some perfect piece of fruit to try. Smell and memory is amazing.
Comparatively late lane
2020.
6am sky
Evenin
Now we’re all trapped in a world we never made.
New Bot Day! Robot 18 is what I call this muscular bot. Made by @childrensplace I don’t know how old he is or anything about him. He’s got a Children’s Place marking on one foot and “598177 1243” on the other. Once lost, now found. Welcome Eighteen!
«o what a beautiful mornin»
Eastern sky
Do You Want To Art Trade?! “Cube Cat’s Drink” is Riso printed by the amazing @burn_all_books at 8-1/2″x11″. Do you have a physical zine you’re proud of? Or an original drawing? Or a killer sticker? This is an experiment in art-trading. I love mail and I love physical art. I’ve got 23 ready to go. DM me and let’s do a deal!
Relish relish assembly (from Wednesday).
New Bot Day! Bumblebee is an original Transformer (1984) and well-loved enough to be in every version of that franchise. His headlining movie is good! See it. This one transforms into a classic 60s Volkswagen Bug. I like how this one tickles my memories!
On Thanksgiving during non-pandemic times I do a large relish tray of fresh veggies, pickled and spicy fun stuff for the Greater Crawford Family here in San Diego. This year for safety things are abbreviated. The solution: takeaway trays! Next year? Biggest tray ever. Happy Thanksgiving. Stay safe!
0630 is not too early
New Bot Day! I love this guy but he’s regrettably anonymous. I picked him up in a booth at @designercon 2018. Paid cash, no receipt. Can’t remember the booth. “A&A CHINA” on the back of his helmet. I like him! He seems like a survivor.
“Rec pool”
Afternoon swum
Foggy passage
faces
Changing up my couch area to hang the poster of that exploitation movie me and my mom were in.
Sounds of the Trolley and morning warming
Staffer who took my temperature greeted me with “happy Friday” but then corrected herself: “happy Friday Junior.” Happy Friday Junior!
Queued
New Bot Day! I got a second Daggit to join my Battlestar Galáctica family. Acquired at @replaytoysboutique —support local businesses in this hideous mismanaged pandemic! Have hope! Wear your mask, be safe!
No idea.
New Bot Day! Cy-Kill (1984) is from the world of GoBots. Despite a red-white-and-blue color scheme, he’s a villain driven by jealousy of Leader-1. Cy-Kill leads the Renegades against the Guardians. I feel melancholy thinking about the GoBots. They are the lesser American transforming robot franchise based on toys in every way I can think of.
On Monday.
All The Ticks & Ben! #allTheTicks
New Bot Day! One of the first robot gifts I received. This is a green @hexbug Ant! A lovely design, well made, and it catches the light nicely.
I’ve had this hacky sack since 1990. It’s a “sipa sipa” but whatever it’s awesome.
Laps, I must say. But then again, laps?
New Bot Day! JOJO Neon Blue (BB-03NB) is an imposing robot gorilla who transformers down into a neon blue cube. Designed for TOPOP toys by @saibooku22, I picked up this fella at San Diego Comic Con in 2017. ROARRRR!
7’-0”/SanteeY
Laptime
New Bot Day! THE SUPER-ADAPTOID is a 1966 Lee-Colan-Kirby creation. The Adaptoid was made by AIM to mimic and defeat the Avengers. A powerful and destructive being, it was ultimately defeated by the forces of good.
