Austin Home For Boys

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Letter from Mary Francis Reilly

Hello, Austin Home for Boys readers. My name is Mary Francis Reilly and I am the director for the 14^th District Austin Boy’s Orphanage. It is a special home filled with special children, each with something to say, something very valuable to voice. It is in that spirit that I announce the commencement of a project very near and dear to my heart, something I have been working on for many years. With the help of this blogsite, the 14^th DABO will bring you selected writings from the children in-residence. The boys will be posting their thoughts, their poetry, and their expressions. We will try our best to update the entries each and every week, so please remember to come back and see what our boys have been up to. Trust me, they have lots to say. I’d also like to add that for many souls in this world, love is hard to come by. Our boys know this. They hope to help. If our words and thoughts heal, in anyway, anyone who reads, anyone who cares, then God bless and let us know. The boys would be more than proud. So please, come make a home here with us. After all, that’s what we’re about, uniting happy families since 1954.

Sincerely,

Mary F. Reilly

Crazy Dangerous Bust Your Shit Open D&D Moves

Here is a picture of a smoked brisket that has a Maine lobster in a figure-4 leg lock. Lobster is for women, homosexuals, and French people. I keep trying to tell Dan this, but he keeps insisting that it's not true, and saying that "flip-flops are for poor people," in an attempt to change the subject. It was a nice try, but then I was able to get him to sprinkle that carcinogenic lemon-lime salt into his lone star tall boy. That will suffice, for now. We will sick the brisket death on those ipod theives. I can hear the deuce dropping in their pantaloons right now.

In order to better describe how well we did last week during Gentleman's Gaming Club Night on October 22nd I have uploaded this diagram which I executed with just an ordinary Bic Pen and some Prismacolor colored pencils which I recently purchased. X marks the spot where we fucked up those Goblin/Hobgoblin bitches.

poorly rendered penis

Right now I am reading the King-Cat Classix by John Porcellino. He does the really bad type drawings that jeffrey brown does, but he's been doing them longer. he has really crazy looking penises on these cartoon dudes. He also does the illustrate-your-dream toons that I find a little more interesting than poems about your dreams.

This makes me want to do a really bad comic about working at the museum. i may try it. You know, I don't have enough things to do in the first place.

Monday, October 29, 2007

House

While on my extended vacation leaf-peeping in new England, I read Josh Simmon's graphic novel "House." It's one of the many books published by Fantagraphics and up for various awards.

Anyway, the book follows 3 teenagers as they explore an old mansion. Ever seen that YouTube video where the Russian Guy Jackie-Chans through an abandoned apartment complex in St. Petersburg? Well this story is kind of like that. Two young ladies, one gothy, one waspy, and a dorky kinda looking dude with headlamps and backpacks start exploring an amazingly complex house. They roof walk across mansion and find a quarry where other smaller houses have been swallowed by the water. The scene is pretty stunning. That's the happy part. Just about when they are in the dark tunnel descending a staircase you think, "Is that staircase going to hold their weight" is when all the hell breaks loose.

The art in the book is well rendered and intricately interesting. Simmon's creates a beautiful and sinister setting for our poor explorers. It took about 20 minutes to follow the wordless story, which kinda disappointed me. I wanted to spend more time with the characters, but oh well, maybe the story was just so compelling I had to read it fast.

Anyway, don't go in there without a rope.