Patch Zircher

We're using a maid service for the first time in our lives. It is amazing. They are actually dusting my books, shelf by shelf.

Also: If my wife finds out I'm on BlueSky while we're paying a maid service, I'm dead.

:)

Also, that looks better than actual Arby's meat, which has less texture, looks less real.
Arby's is the Cronenberg movie of fast food.

I'm beginning to think my fondness for Arby's is sexual.

Arby's roast beef.
It's repulsive. It seems more like flesh than meat. Like food for cannibals.

"Do you want extra meat on that?"
"... (weakly)... yes"

Reading White, Latino, Asian, Black, Man, Woman, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish-- we are remarkably alike in the printed word. In sharing our experiences, we're talking about the outside.
Our inner voice, our happiness & despair, is universal.
This is why people who want to divide us attack books.

Thank you.

Thanks Marc.

Amending my dream; it is also filled with people who wanted to learn but, for one reason or another, were discouraged.

My idea of heaven is a beautiful library, with beautiful grounds to walk on. Inside it is fully functional with books, audio, video, art & writing workshops, and guest speakers from throughout all time. Its rooms represent all cultures.
It is filled with people who loved learning their whole lives.

I found that list tonight and I'm happy to have read 44 books and essays that Lincoln read. It's remarkable that the voices in books have that kind of lasting reach.

What Abraham Lincoln Read—An Evaluative and Annotated List This bibliography attempts to list, in alphabetical order by author, all the books or parts of books that any serious scholar, biographer, or bibliographer has asserted that Abraham Lincoln read. In t...

Table 3 are books, essays, and speeches Abraham Lincoln read.
He grew up, in poverty, in a log cabin.
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jala/art...

Why in the hell are we excusing today's leaders from being educated men?

Being well-read doesn't guarantee a good leader.
True.
But ignorance is even less of a guarantee.

Since we so seldom choose a well-read candidate, maybe we should give one a try.

Laughing so I don't cry.

We are governed by failsons.

Thank you.

It's that relaxed state I always prayed would eventually happen. I don't have to force a drawing to be what I want it to be as much as I used to.

Thanks you JH!

Might-have-beens are weird; if I'd have done that I might not have married the woman I married, my kids wouldn't exist.
Traveling back in time would terrify me :)

Life can go so many different ways depending on your choices; I could have ended up in LA with Fox Animation, or NY with Blue Sky Studios, or Austin with Origin.
All three of them are defunct now so I feel freelancing was the right choice.

I also included that in the picture to show the dichotomies of my account, Mickey Mouse to Aristotle :)

Long ago I drew a Gumby comic & a Disney rep at SDCC asked if I'd work with them. I asked, in the course of the convo, if they credited artists. They didn't (don't know if they do now).
I decided to pass.
Hard to build a career if you're uncredited.

I can love something without wanting to do it.

On my drawing table.

If someone had asked 30 yrs ago if I wanted to bring Solomon Kane to comics, I would have said, "Hell yes!"

That hasn't changed.

Certain ones are. The one's with crisp diction and an ear for accents.

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image.

Will do. Thank you and welcome.

YouTube video by ONE Media THE THING WITH FEATHERS Trailer (2025) Benedict Cumberbatch

This is going to be a movie.
If it's as good as the book, and it looks like it has a great shot at it, it'll be worth seeing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcYD...

Interested in intriguing international fiction translated to English?
This account already has me making a list of books-to-read:
@bookblast.org

Nice!

Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply, Drowning By Numbers, much theatre) is narration par excellence. I'm on my 3rd audiobook read by her (North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, the other two were Jane Eyre, and Woolf's A Room of One's Own).
She's go-out-of-your-way, look-for-what-she-reads amazing.

Robert E. Howard's wandering Puritan hero stands atop the statue of a giant serpent, on the hunt for all things evil.

Pullbox Previews Solomon Kane: The Serpent King- One of Robert E. Howard’s iconic heroes returns with furious vengeance in his own solo comic series.

www.thepullbox.com/2025/10/92309/

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Latest read, Grief is the Thing with Feathers (2015) by Max Porter; a writer, suddenly widowed, imagines Crow, from Ted Hughes' poems, has come to live with him and his two sons. Whether to mock or guide them, he is unsure.
A journey through grief written in a blend of prose and poetry.
#BookSky