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My twitter avatar adventure meltdown extravaganztacular

December 31, 2008 – 6:44 pm

90 AVATARS IN 90 HOURS!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEE
Actually it was 91 avatars in about 96 hours but who’s counting? Not me, I’m unconscious.
I don’t know what came over me. There I was on holiday, relaxing, wandering about. Hadn’t drawn a cartoon since the pygmy hippopotamus christmas card last Tuesday (and that was photoshopped). I was cleaning my [...]

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Santa Kills Venomous Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans)

December 24, 2008 – 11:58 am

A Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) has been found by A HOUSEWIFE in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. “Having eluded authorities since being smuggled into Australia 5 years ago, the “large and exotic” offender was captured by a Melbourne housewife and will be put down.” You can read the whole article here: Turtle leading the resistance against Senator [...]

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I am jealous

December 18, 2008 – 12:22 pm

I am drawing a 15 page extravaganza cartoon for Friday and have not had time to blog. In the meantime I have discovered that someone else has had the good idea I didn’t have but wanted to and didn’t realise until someone else had it. Bastard!
Many will suggest that fuckyoupenguin is not the greatest blog [...]

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7 kettles and a Black House Spider (Badumna insignis)

December 8, 2008 – 4:37 pm

Dad’s Araluen Clearance Sale – Part Two.
There was more than one Black House Spider (Badumna insignis) discovered on the weekend. I found one in a box of wet weather gear (some of it old Australia Post Standard Issue) which was on the ping pong table with about 5 million other boxes of old crap. I love [...]

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White-Winged Chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) and the end of the world.

December 4, 2008 – 1:28 pm

This is the bird that appears in the song “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks. It is a remarkable bird as are all of the other remarkable birds.
White-winged Choughs are easily recognised but often mistaken for “crows”—a double mistake, as the birds most frequently called “crows” in Australia are actually ravens. And yet you continue to [...]

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