To Stultify or To Stuff

Thanks to Jen for this article on "going home". I suppose I can relate to it to some degree but I've been in back home in Toronto for the past week and I really can't complain too much. I too gave up on the idea that I'd get some "work" done while I was here (sorry student papers sitting in my backpack) but I've surrendered to something good: the sewing machine that had been tempting me way before I stepped foot in my sister's apartment.

Behold, the outcome of a few hours of stitching and stuffing: a Glenn Gould doll prototype.

It's rough, I know. For one, he has no feet. He's also missing his trademark hat and gloves but like the Chep Whittaker book, it's a work in progress. Geddy Lee is in the brainstorming stage but rest assured, he'll get his own plush form soon enough. I've already had a few people interested in the Glenn doll so it looks like I might have to take this into "mass" production.... when I get back "back home", of course.

I've waited a loooong time for this...

When I was young, I loved collecting Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kid stickers. This might explain something about me, or at least where countless hours of my childhood years disappeared to. At one time, me and some neighbourhood friends even created our own mock Wacky Packages line of cards. I really wish I still had them but like many other things they, sadly, got thrown out in the trash at some point.

Well, today I feel immense joy and pride in being able to relive a part of this childhood memory. And so, I present to you, my very own Garbage Pail Kid card.

mmmmmmmm... Fudgesicles and venom-spewing snakes (not to mention, urine-sipping rats)! What's that you say? You want your own too?! Don't despair, you're just a click away.

P.S. email me your very own "kid" and I'll post it here for the utter repulsion/enjoyment of others.

Pig City

More artwork from the Pig City series.
The Pig City site is "coming soon" but can be found here.

"Glenn in Discovery Mode"

A Pig City Christmas Countdown

In preparation for Christmas, I've added the first of my Pig City greeting cards. Feel free to download and mail to your loved ones! Note: as a Christmas gift to you, I've left Adam's hair and watch uncoloured. Let the kids give Mr. Thompson a "Christmas hairdo".

Geddy v.2.0

Pig City Teaser

I have another project in the works with Uyugomiak and Trevor O. This was drawn by me and coloured by Uyu.

G&G: comic noir detectives

This isn't actually a new image but it was one of my favourites from Chapter 1. I've added "Geddy & Gould" in Impact Font and now, for some reason, it reminds of some 80's LP cover - maybe a cross between Billy Idol and Hall & Oats?

Gould Films in NYC

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is showing "Glenn Gould on Film".

Films 1 through 5 were shown over the past few weeks but there's still a chance to see 4 more:

Skipping the Romantic Era
The Last Gould
Conversations with Glenn Gould: Bach
Gould and the Philosophy of Recording


The series ends on Saturday, November 18 with:
A Panel Discussion: Gould’s Ghosts: Music in the Digital Age

A Strange Animal

First sketch of Gowan, from A Criminal Mind video.


In 2005, Maestro offered his own interpretation of this song and video which I happen to really enjoy.

Glenn in Graffiti

Glenn Gould in the news. (Thanks to Brendan for drawing it to my attention).

"Barbara Moore, the 62-year Texan woman charged with illegally possessing Glenn Gould memorabilia, was found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of stolen property on October 24, reports the Associated Press. The New York jury acquitted her of two felony counts of grand larceny."

Read on and you'll get a sense of why, in this case, a trial by jury is so tricky. To quote "The New York Times writes that other jurors said they were 'reluctant to send a gray-haired woman with a cat and not much money to jail over what appeared to be scribbles that most people would have crumpled up and thrown in the trash.'".