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January 20, 2024

We Are All Bloops

"Wherever we go, we are friends" -Sloth and Manatee

Have you ever considered that everything we see around us is More Than One Thing? And also Impossible?

Cartoon of a cat and dog with same facial expression meaning different things

Maybe it's because in the US we're in an election year, when everything gets boiled down to check marks or filled-in little bubbles and Red and Blue.

Cartoon of one person opening another person's head and asking what's on your mind?
Not like this.

(Note: this cartoon is in the big ol Best of Brainwaves Volume One! Along with 400+ others. Isn't that glorious? Get one for you or someone you wanna make smile.)


Good grief, this is the 50th Comic since Sloth and Manatee headed for the moon and... whatever this is! The inter-dimensional bloop is certainly a lot of things at once.

Sloth and Manatee comic in which Octopus is managing the Inter-Dimensional Bloop

It’s not clear whether the inter-dimensional bloop is a mistake, or a natural phenomenon, or what. Is a bloop something that's broken? How would we know? In a way, everything is a bloop. We're all bloops. We're all impossible.

We went to Costco, and there was a man there promoting Costco credit cards. He had this booming voice and wondrous outfit and his pitch even had rhymes in it. He told the story of how his "favorite day of the year" is when people come in and get their Costco credit card rebates. This guy and his outfit and us talking to him were all basically impossible. That was a wonderful bloop. Or wonderful infinite series of bloops, if that's how you look at it.

Interpretation of Costco man as a capybara

Speaking of shirts:

Cartoon of bears wearing ironic message tshirts
You can tell this one is from a long time ago based on the incredibly professional lettering job I did on it

Exciting News! Serialized SciFi Adventure Thriller Non-Dystopian Shape-Shifting Time-Traveling stories!

The first two Silverwood novels were traditionally published some years ago and now there is a third. I have the rights back and am working on a Second Edition of all three. And serializing em as a sort of living writing project.

Read Silverwood in progress here


And remember, we're all impossible so:

Illustration of a platypus with the caption Defy Categorization

OH! Here is Emoji Kitchen where you can mash up emojis and make more emojis. So much fun. Some of the glorious results:

Clown Poop!
Octopus likes music!
Actual Potato Head!
Send in the Emergency Pig!

Okay! That's enough impossibility and bloops for now.

May you find yourself at the culmination of infinite impossibility, may you be many things at once, can one of the things you are be my neighbor? -Betsy


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