June 2010
18 posts
May 2010
18 posts
Pope Goes #11
the Pope would like to eat his pancakes now, if you don’t mind.
Pope Goes #10
the pope craves your brains.
Pope Goes #9
the pope is a hipster.
Pope Goes #8
the pope breaks for spare change.
Pope Goes #7
the Pope is all about the gangsta lean.
Pope Goes #6
the Pope starts a metal band.
I’m actually pretty dang proud of this picture. Not only did I draw it in MS Paint, I drew it on a laptop trackpad. I had a lot of fun adding details to this.
Pope Goes #5
existentialism makes the Pope sad
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Pope Goes #4
The Pope kicks his dog in anger.
Ok, so I’m bad at drawing dogs. Also, maybe he’s kicking it because it’s lazy and needs to go on a diet.
Pope Goes #3
the Pope goes ice skating
Pope Goes -- Episode 2
Erik (co-inventor of Pope Goes) reminded me of one of the other classics. Recreated using MS Paint, here it is:
I added a “submit something” link to my page. Feel free to submit a Pope Goes comic, or something you think I should write about, by clicking the link above or this handy one right here: http://geekisthenewcool.tumblr.com/submit
Pope Goes - Episode 1
During my junior year of high school, I became instantaneous friends with a kid in my chemistry class by the name of Erik Baldwin. Strangely enough, the day I knew that we had become good friends was when he walked into class, stabbed me with a mechanical pencil and then we both looked at the chunk of bloody skin on the tip of the pencil and simultaneously went, “whoah, cool!” Anyway, we rarely paid attention during class and usually ended up doodling things that, to us, were hilarious, and passing them back and forth. One day, one of us — to this day, I can’t remember who did it first — drew a picture that looked something like this:
Something about it was just hilarious to us, so we kept drawing more things that the Pope did. From the pointlessly banal (e.g. “the pope goes to the dentist”), to the ridiculous and bizarre (e.g. “the pope strangles a penguin”). Anyway, I think they might make a regular appearance on this page from here on out. I think there’s a certain charm in doing this crappily with a mouse that seems to augment the original goofiness of the crappy, stick figure drawings.
(PS, feel free to submit your own Pope Goes, if you’re a tumblr user.)
Listen
A walk from the bus toward work in downtown Seattle, recorded with my trusty Zoom H2, recorded in Mp3 format at 320kbps bitrate (for the sake of posting it here). No post-editing has been done. Fun sounds. Sounds best on headphones. Some highlights:
- 0:08 — Me making a loud sniff right next to the mic like an idiot.
- 0:21-0:32 — Lady walking toward and then past me pulling one of those little backpacks on wheels.
- 1:11-1:22 — Dude on a crotch rocket flying past and then fading into the background.
- 2:36-2:50 — Walking up to and past a construction site.
I’ll embed the tracks with this player in the future, but here’s the track with a visible waveform and actual timing information: http://soundcloud.com/geekisthenewcool/a-soundwalk-in-seattle
The Next Chapter
Well, here I am. I’m officially a “grownup.” I’m guessing that nobody ever wakes up one day and suddenly feels like one, but I don’t even feel like it’s even around the corner. So, maybe “grownup” isn’t exactly accurate. Maybe I’ll wait till I have a couple rugrats running around before I accept that particular moniker. For now, I’ll just accept “guy who isn’t in college anymore.” I think can do that one just fine.
