Desire Armed

This was originally part of a cartoon strip I made back in 2007 (full progression here). I don't have the commentary for it any more, but I remember deciding not to post it because I felt it was insulting to women.

I'm posting it now because I just rediscovered it on my hard drive, and because I want to show off how creative my cartooning skills from 2007 were.

If you are a blonde circle women, I apologize in advance if you feel insulted.

I know what I'm getting you for Christmas. All these prints from here.

Undefeated

Chief of the Medical Staff

The Senior Partner

The Miracle of Birth

Tyler posts, as usual, a thought provoking piece called "Elaborating on the despair of our age."

Rachel Obrien posts a poem called, "Prove Me Wrong."

And speaking of poetry, Sam Lamb made a book of her poetry, "Harmonicas and Honey." Haven't ordered it myself, but thought I would plug her site since she is an Oklahoma artist and a lovely lady to go to the movies with.

Rachelle begins her last year of school in, "It's Not Summer!"

Actually, I've spent the last three weekends out of town.

First, I was in Oklahoma the weekend before school started.

Second, I was in Sisters, Oregon for a New Wine, New Wineskins retreat.

Lastly, I was at Wild Horse Canyon for the all school retreat.

After tonight, I hope for a quick recovery and more writing.

If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,
Echoless, ignorant --
What then?

Stephen Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines" (1895)

see full-size here.

Recently, my friend had a friend whose wife drove her friend across the country from Portland to North Carolina.

I'm friends with the wife as well, but since she started with that description, it seems only appropriate to continue it.

Anyway, low on cash, they were looking for places to crash, so I hooked them up with a friend in KC-MO, where they visited the International House of Prayer.

She is a fantastic writer, and I highly recommend you check out a post or two of hers.

after about an hour, tiff and i left, feeling both refreshed by the chance to worship and pray with so many other people, but also slightly confused by the meat market vibe we were both getting throughout the whole experience. is this where evangelical christianity is heading? are hipsters now the new heralds of the kingdom of god through prayer and worship? maybe so, and in a sense it is an exciting thought. ihop has obviously marketed itself to a specific demographic, and that demographic has come with much enthusiasm. although my thoughts on this event remain somewhat muddled, i can at least come to the conclusion that god is working in missouri at 11pm, and that evangelicals are as excited and as confused as ever.

(From on the road part 2: charismatic missouri. by Danielle Mayfield)

Found here, at the American Rhetoric.

"...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

Delivered 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City

I almost used the one Adam wrote in the post where I first mentioned my dilemma.

At last, forced by my supervisor, I cranked this out:

Brandon was born and raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma. His father, a firefighter, and mother, a political activist, taught him to stop, drop, and roll through life, as well as to question and agitate the man, the system, and most other authorities.

After High School, this philosophy lead him to take up living in Kansas City where he attempted to start a counter-consumer revolution. With only a few minor successes during his two year campaign, he declared that the revolution was a failure.

Disappointed, he moved to Portland, Oregon. He states that his sole reason was, “It’s a city full of twenty-somethings who have no idea what they’re doing. I’ll fit right in.”

Two years of moping around Portland, he decided to attend Multnomah University. Currently, he is a Junior.

[http://new-wineskins.org/author/brandonsmith/]

School starts tomorrow, and I am already desperately trying to catch up.