Some Stuff

As chief publication of the counterculture, it is Yogipie's job to inform you that Rush are coming back into style, so if you are unfamilar with that band, I recommend you pick up Moving Pictures. It contains the song " Tom Sawyer," which I listened to on repeat for about five hours on end while I finalized my homework project based on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. That was quite fun, and the best part is that the song never got old; Neil Peart's drumming is just that delicious.
Also, if you're not already familiar with it from the newspaper comics page, I would check out the comic strip Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis. I recently got a book of it. The guy is a genius. It's amazing that even though he Pastis is actually a Santa Rosan, we did not actually get his strip in our paper until very recently. He said that until then, his neighbors had not believed him when he told them he did a comic strip. Anyway, it is funny stuff.

Summer Is Almost Here!

I stayed up past my tiredness threshold last night, meaning I was tired, but I stayed up so late it went away and I couldn't get to sleep. Anyways, I used to write and draw a lot, but recently I have done these less and less. However, last night I wrote a "composition," continued a story that I must have started at least a year ago and that is itself the sequel to one I wrote near the end of sixth grade in the free time I had during state testing, and drawn a patakume, which is an art form I created a while back, if you could call it that, consisting of an extremely active battle scene drawn in one color on the back of an 8 1/2" by 11" sheet of paper, involving up to four sides battling for dominance of the sheet, sometimes including God as one of those. I dug up an old patakume I drew; here is a scan of it (feel free to laugh, but keep in mind that I was twelve years old). The quality of the art is not how you judge it, but rather on the amount of things simultaneously going on. If you count which units live and die on which sides, you can tell who is going to win the battle. Last night, the USA and the JFAA (Japanese Federation of Anti-Americans) ended with an equal number of troops, but since the invaders, the Japanese, suffered more casualties, I think it is safe to say the Americans won. I will post again after dinner if I can.