Squirrels Live Here
In between t-shirts, comic bloc and life, a squirrel finally moved into the squirrel house I’ve had attached to my garage for a few years now. It’s too low for them to feel very safe, but hopefully its warm and out of the wind. I know someone lives there, because I startled them out tonight accidentally.
Need to leave more pecans out. Squirrels that live close deserve the best.
Squirrels still, always, make me smile.
San Diego Comic Con
Back safely from another successful year at SDCC! Great to see everyone as always. There weren’t a lot of panels and discussions I was interested in this year, so I mostly wandered the floor taking random photos. Some of the better ones are below.
Turns out 3 of the 4 things I bought were squirrel related, big surprise I know!
Congrats to Jamal Igle on his Ink Pot Award!
Stop by comicbloc.com and visit! See you next year.
40 Photos
40 Photos
Ready
Contrary to what a few may think, I am happy and proud of where I am.
This living is good.
There will be more when the time is right.
I am thankful and happy for my family. I am grateful for my diverse friends.
I look forward to many more of both.
Have I done what I need to do? Not yet. Not yet. Perhaps yet I will surprise you. But I live for myself.
I dreampt of the Pope recently, and his advice to me was “live for the world” vs live for the planet.
We shall not disappoint.
Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day!
January 21st is NATIONAL Squirrel Appreciation Day! Please celebrate by putting out lots and lots of Pecans for the squirrels!
Squirrel Articles:
Squirrels at the Smithsonian
2010 Tshirt 008
Shirt 008.
Drinking Squirrel. Came from ebay. Another favorite.
All squirrel shirts are favs, but i like this color a lot. And the squirrel has a beer.
2010 tshirt 001
Its that time again. Time to wear and document all my Tshirts. I have many new ones and many old ones for the 3 of you that follow this blog.
Shirt 001 – “I can has nets” from woot.com
Time and Place
This time and place
seem to pass so transiently
a tiny target. something so small. what if you are aiming at it all along?
Squirrels have the best tails in the entire animal kingdom.
Sound is nesessary
Two things on my mind;
A. no matter where You go, there You are.
2. while You Are there, be aware of who is watching you.
iii. current human perception of time is only comprehensible in a single direction
at the end of time, the light is the dark, the end is the beginning, the anti-christ is a black hole. invert.
Significance of 21 – How Awareness Changes Reality
Significance of 21 – How Awareness Changes Reality or “Why does everyone have a mustache when you do?”
I was asked about the significance of the number 21 in my life, due to today being International Squirrel Appreciation Day which happens to be the 21st. I had to think about it for a minute and traced the initial noticing of it after I was nicknamed TwoOne. Which made me think: Did the number 21 suddenly start occurring more around me, or is it that my awareness of these occurrences increased?
For the record here are the references to 21 that I was able to come up with:
- TwoOne – nickname
- The best issue of the original G.I.Joe comic is 21 – Snake Eyes silent interlude
- Wonder Woman 21 is the source of the sun design in my tattoo
- International Squirrel Appreciation Day is January 21st
- The solstices occur on the 21sts
- The 21 – Universe card in Tarot comes up more frequently than others for me
Currently that’s all I came up with, which is not a huge number by any means. So the real question is repeated – whats the importance of 21 in my life? From my list only the first and the last have unique meaning to me. The coincidence of Squirrel Day falling on the 21st is strange, but probably nothing more than that.
But it feels more to me, perception alters reality. I notice it more when it does occur, therefore I perceive it happens more frequently than other numbers.
Squirrel Appreciation Day
Why is this the first I’ve heard of Squirrel Appreciation Day? (thanks Lee for your facebook post)
And it only seems very appropriate and a bit spooky that it falls on the 21st. :)
So Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day. Go give them some pecans.
Top 5 web squirrels
Squirrel Appreciation Day
Squirrel Tattoo
The waves are finally healed enough to get a good picture:
Life, the universe and everything. As represented by squirrel family tree, water, and a squirrel respectively.
Joshua's Squirrel Family Tree Tattoo
Had the squirrel, chakik updated, added the tree (scientific squirrel family tree) and waves. :) Waves are a complete band around my arm, representing the circle of life/infinity and cyclical nature of being.
Since I cannot find it online again, here is the sciuridae tree:
Sciuridae - sciurinae - sciurini
Green Lantern Ch’p : Intergalactic Guardian Squirrel
Just watched Warner Bros/DC Green Lantern animated movie. And guess who should be in it? Good ole Ch’p, the Green Lantern of sector 1014.
Here are some images of him from the movie. As well as the Daffy Duck: Duck Dodgers cartoon that was on it.
Here’s a link to an illustration I made of Ch’p a while back.
Still
The i-ching keeps telling me to stand still. P’i. Again for the third time. I don’t know what to make of this repeat repeat repeat repeat fortune. I get it. Stop screwing up. But I can’t stand here alone much longer. I need to get out, I need to get back up and fight again.
pi tattoo
On a more positive note, a fat black squirrel has been coming to my feeder lately. She’s been there almost every morning when I open the shades. Note to self: more squirrel food.
Vlog? or not to vlog
So I am thinking about vlogging. Seems easier than typing my thoughts all the time.
This is a test. Need to see where I can host them. Does it work? Here is a squirrel.
T Shirt 50 I talk to squirrels
Featuring both BC and AD images (Before Cala, and After Durdle)
Not sure if all the fur will show up or not. It’s a pretty good coating.
42 – The answer to life the universe and Everything?
The Squirrel
That is the answer.
New Tattoo – iChing Pi
I’m thinking about getting another tattoo. I want to get the hexagram Pi from the Chinese book of the iChing. Thinking about putting it over the burns on my left arm. I drew it on in blue sharpie to see how I like it.
Seeing how I like it
Here is the meaning of the hexagram:
I-Ching Hexagram 12 – Pi – Standstill
This hexagram is the opposite of the preceeding one [hexagram 11 - T'ai - Peace (11)] Heaven is above, drawing farther and farther away, while the earth below sinks farther into the depths. The creative powers are not in relation. it is a time of standstill and decline. This hexagram is linked with the seventh month (August-September), when the year has passed its zenith and autumnal decay is setting in.
THE JUDGMENT
STANDSTILL. Evil people do not further
The perseverance of the superior man.
The great departs; the small approaches.
Heaven and earth are out of communion and all things are benumbed. What is above has no relation to what is below, and on earth confusion and disorder prevail. The dark power is within, the light power is without. Weakness is within, harshness without. Within are the inferior, and without are the superior. The way of inferior people is in ascent; the way of superior people is on the decline. But the superior people do not allow themselves to be turned from their principles. If the possibility of exerting influences is closed to them, they nevertheless remain faithful to their principles and withdraw into seclusion.
THE IMAGE
Heaven and earth do not unite:
The image of STANDSTILL.
Thus the superior man falls back upon his inner worth
In order to escape the difficulties.
He does not permit himself to be honored with revenue.
When, owing to the influence of inferior men, mutual mistrust prevails in public life, fruitful activity is rendered impossible, because the fundaments are wrong. Therefore the superior man knows what he must do under such circumstances; he does not allow himself to be tempted by dazzling offers to take part in public activities. This would only expose him to danger, since he cannot assent to the meanness of the others. He therefore hides his worth and withdraws into seclusion.
My current real tattoo:
Dream Squirrel Chakik Tattoo
all around me
we need to group together before we tear each other apart for what will quickly change.
i wish we were descended from squirrels. not apes.
squirrels fit into every society.
apes create society by changing the environment.squirrels adapt to the environment.
i think the word “their” should be removed from the planetary dialect.
they’re and there are fine.
also lets redefine “i,you,we,they,us,our,is” good.
are we too complacant?
drinking beer?
those of us that get turned on usually die young. lets hope we can change that quickly.
solar solar solar. its all about solar energy. i dont understand why we are even toying with anything else.
gravity is a good energy i suppose. but that is so far beyond consideration now for any influence besides planetary coalesation, coalescence. coalesce.
how is coalescation not a word?
what is the product of the universe coalescing?
evolution
monkeys evolved down from the trees;
squirrels evolved up into them.
Gravity: Squirrel Style
Every atom [insert smallest particle you've "discovered" here] in your body is being effected and affected by gravity.
But we don’t know what gravity is.
I do.
Gravity is the observation of coalesation of shared matter across multiple dimensions.
Time?
Can you have gravity without time? Time without gravity?
Observation.
Quantum Physics? All that crazy shit to look really really really small. To see that objects tend to orbit each other. electrons?
Astronomy? All that “true” observation of the history of the universe. The light that reaches us today from a planet 100 light years away, is 100 years old.
Hey look kids, time travel!
Look as far away from the Earth as you can. Now reverse your view. Look at the Earth from as far away as you can imagine. That journey you just took would have taken 33 light years in 2007, and been entirely impossible.
33 years.
Seems a long time, doesn’t it? It’s not even the hint of a twitch of a wink of the world. The house i live in is 50.
:abrupt ending from rambling realization:
