I have some charts and one helpful tweet. Please enjoy.
Archive for the ‘Charts’ Category
Summer approaches and charts are in bloom.
Thursday, June 20th, 2013You gotta fight! For your right! TO CHAAAAAAAARTY!
Monday, April 29th, 2013It’s been a while since happy-happy chart time, so let’s do this thing. And no, I will not apologize for the title of this post.
It’s time for charts!
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013I got a lot of ’em. Enjoy.
I especially like the chemo-hair growth one, partially because it’s a nice thing that happened, and partially for when the hair quits trying to fight gravity and just floops down, near the end there. You can almost hear the hair struggling upwards, “Ehhhhhhh” and then saying, “Oh, screw it,” and falling over to the side. I also like the Nelson Mandala one. It reminds me of a thing I saw one holiday season. It was a circle of Xeroxed $100 bills and pictures of Aretha Franklins. It was a wreath of Franklins. Get it? Ha ha! Holiday puns!
Would you like some charts? I think you would. And perhaps some Grumpy Cat as well? Alright then.
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013So, charts.
Everyone who reads this blog, I will assume, is familiar with Grumpy Cat, yes? In case you are not, here is some pictures of said cat.
Well, because Tardar Sauce (the cat’s actual name) is so super-photogenic, people have been making art based on her. And some of it is really terrific.
I am usually not pro-meme-tattoos (you know that’s, like, forever, right?) but that is a fantastic tattoo. That tattoo will stand the test of time. You can join Grumpy Cat’s facebook page and enjoy daily pics and art, or you can go to her webpage and enjoy daily pics and art. Either way you win.
In completely unrelated news, the “*&%#$!” you see in cartoons in place of cursewords is called a variety of things – grawlix, jarns, nittles, or quimp are all acceptable. My Scrabble game just improved.
Merry Christmas! Have some charts.
Tuesday, December 25th, 2012While I’m making candied walnuts to share with folk, please enjoy this collection of lovely and informative charts I have found in my internet travels.
Belgium and some charts.
Friday, October 5th, 2012The Moomins and I are going to Belgium for Thanksgiving this year, so in order to find out all the awesome things The Moomins called the Belgian Tourist Bureau. And the Belgian Tourist Bureau informed her, without a hint of humor, that they only deal with the Wallonia region (French-speaking), not the Flanders region (Dutch-speaking). Okay, this is pathetic. Do you know how big Belgium is? It’s 11,000 square miles. New York State is 54,000 square miles. Belgium is teeny-tiny. However, the Frenchies and the Dutchies are still fussin’ and gripin’ and won’t play nice. So The Moomins had to call a different tourist bureau to get info on the Flanders chunk. It’s fine if the two regions are cranky. My people are from Israel, I am in no place to judge people fighting about land the size of Rhode Island. However, do you think the the official tourist bureaus can put their differences aside to send my mother information about the entirety of the stupid country so we can visit it and give it our money? Perhaps maybe?
I asked The Moomins, who was raised by Belgians and speaks both languages, what holds the country together and without blinking she said, “Beer.”
In other news, charts.
Mad crazy charts, yo.
Friday, August 3rd, 2012I have a lot of them. It has been a good summer for charts. The fields have been fertile, the rain gentle. We shall feed well this winter (on infographics).
Burning Man Costume, Part I don’t know about this.
Monday, May 21st, 2012You all know how hard I’ve been working on this costume, but between work constraints (I made a fifty-page book in two days last week!) and personal stuff going on (I’m not going to get into that!), it is a real possibility that I may not get done by the time Labor Day weekend rolls around. I’m super-disappointed because I’ve been working on this since November, but life happens and, eh, what are you going to do. I’m going to keep plodding along on it whenever I find the time, but I make no promises. I feel good about it being done for Halloween, though. That there is a definite maybe.
In the meantime, charts.
I met a famous person and made him uncomfortable with my love! Also, charts.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012Michael Waltrip came to the office to talk to us about various sponsorships and whatnot. It’s okay if you don’t know who he is, I had no idea myself. He is a NASCAR driver who has won the Daytona 500 twice.
Michael was a delightful man – Southern, charming, tan, tall. I became smitten. So afterwards he stuck around and was signing all kinds of things and I got in line. When I got to the front of the line he reached out to sign something and I said, “No no, we’re gonna hug now,” and I did. Michael was okay with it. Kind of.
I love to hug people, but I know many people hate it, so in order to make it less traumatizing I usually announce it. It doesn’t seem to help. Saying, “I’M GOING TO HUG YOU NOW,” and then wrapping your arms around people doesn’t put them at ease for some reason. Are you familiar with the comic strip Get Fuzzy? There’s a character that I identify with greatly.
I have accrued a plethora of charts that I must share with you. And please try to imagine me hugging you while you look at these.
Charts, Winston and Work.
Friday, March 16th, 20121. Would you like to see some charts? I bet you would.
2. Have you guys heard of the website FourFour? It’s a blog I’ve been reading for a few years, written by a guy named Rich. He is most famous for his America’s Next Top Model reviews, his music reviews, his deep love of all things tacky and campy, and Winston. Winston is Rich’s cat. He is a smoosh-faced gray-colored little fella, and he is weird. Perhaps a bit simple. But, asides from looking perpetually grumpled and have a fierce need to protect the banana bowl in Rich’s kitchen, he is quite amenable to getting costumes put on him, so Rich dresses him every Halloween. And I look forward to it every Halloween because it is glorious. Here’s Winston as a baby.
Here’s Winston being Winston.
Here is Winston in various costumes for various holidays.
And here is what I consider to be possibly the greatest photo of anything ever. It’s Winston as the giant worm from Dune.
THE BEST PHOTO EVER. Every time I see it I laugh until I tinkle a little bit.
He has his own Twitter thingie, so you can follow him @winstonbananas.
3. Recently we had a pitch where we were appealing to a young-adult clothing manufacturer and I made our typical response to questions (normally a book) as an iPad app, which was daunting but really fun. I got complete free reign on how to design it, and I really think it turned out great. Here are a bunch of pages. I blurred out stuff that I don’t think should be circulating on the internet, please don’t be thinking there’s just smudgy info on pages.
