On Crows
Sloth and Manatee I may have mentioned that there’s a big gang (a murder!) of crows that hang around my neighborhood. There’s gotta be about 40 of them. They...
On Creating The World
Special note! Get a copy of Sofa Stories, fund mutual aid in Minnesota! Proceeds from sales of Sofa Stories, the little PG-13 picture book that Mike Monteiro...
On Effing Off
Sloth and Manatee One of the great privileges of life is to do something and not do anything else: Effing off and telling everything else to eff off. Even...
On Going Visiting
Sloth and Manatee When I was a kid, my grandma Irene was an expert visitor. Each Wednesday, she would go and have her hair done by “Theodore.” In the Spring...
On Paintings
Sloth and Manatee I recently got to visit the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. It’s such a special place, and it was packed, and there was this splendid...
On Shoes
Sloth and Manatee Neither Sloth nor Manatee have need of shoes, but here’s a drawing from some time ago that involves a good book and some coffee at a diner,...
On Glassblowing
Sloth and Manatee If you have a busy brain, chances are you have a lot of Ideas. These Ideas may be big, or small, and many might have to do with “I should...
On Birds
Sloth and Manatee There are some owls who hang around the trees near our house, and on many nights, we can hear them having discussions with one another. One...
On Peeking Over the Fence
Sloth and Manatee You may or may not be aware that Manatee’s first appearance upon arriving from space was to peek over Birthday Kitty’s hedge and say hello:...
On Space
Excerpt from “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” by Steve Martin: Germaine: And what do you do at night? Einstein: Ah, at night… At night, the stars come out....
On the Sky
Hey, I will have a table at Richmond Art Center’s annual Holiday Arts Festival on Sunday December 7th, I’m bringing some prints and books and friendliness -...
On the Octopus (Octopi)(Octopuses)
Sloth and Manatee Heyyy, Happy Day! In Sloth and (Moon)atee, the friends encounter a penguin who introduces them to an octopus, who is the manager of the...
On Knowing and Not Knowing
“When you start working, everybody is in your studio - the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas - all are there. But as...
On Hats
“If you can’t fight, wear a big hat.” -Spanish Proverb Sloth and Manatee Sloth and Manatee Page Brainwaves A couple classics, note the date! Best of...
On Being All Weird
Sloth and Manatee Captain Picard:Well, then, um... what did you do for your science projects? Patterson Supera:I planted radishes in this special dirt, and...
On Big Things
Sloth and Manatee Such a favorite page. The word “Big” is so interesting. It can be used to describe something physically, but also mentally, and also time-...
On Patterns
Sloth and Manatee Our world is made up of repeating, self-generating, re-generating patterns. There is a pattern for “leaf” and a pattern for “shadow.” There...
On Hiding and Also Showing
Sloth and Manatee There is a common wisdom that says, on any given day or week the one thing you do not ever, ever want to do is, to be the Main Character on...
On Gestures
Sloth and Manatee Going all around, every which way Are there people in your life that you can pick out of a crowd just by catching a glimpse of a bit of the...
On Attention
Sloth and Manatee So many things are spoken about attention nowadays… it’s the attention economy, you’ve got to reclaim your attention, attention is the...