True story: A while ago, I was in New York for a conference. A friend and I were walking back to our hotels, and happened to be in front of Carnegie Hall when someone pulled up and asked us how to get to NYU:
Friend: “You’re asking me, in front of Carnegie Hall, how to get to NYU?”
I Googled “Rikers Island,” and apparently it’s named after someone called Rycken. I suppose the name just mutated over the years, as names do.
Well, at least I’m glad it wasn’t named after the Star Trek character. (Perhaps some day Rikers Island will follow the example of Riverside, Iowa, and declare itself a “future birthplace.”)
I will enlighten you regarding the slouching / poor posture. We comic creators often suffer from a degenerative condition known as “Cartoonist’s Hump.” It comes from endless hours spent hunched over drawing boards and computers and also from shying away from the rest of humanity (an unfortunate by-product of a creative endeavor that is mostly solitary). As artists tend to model their figures after themselves (intentionally or not), slumped over characters occur quite naturally.
Though, it should be noted, the condition can be treated with extended physical therapy in a heated pool and slow reassimilation into normal society.
Jeff, both cat and girl have been in constant evolution from day one. Would you believe me if I tell you that once, long ago, girl was a happy, albeit destructive girl with a straight spine, and cat was a compulsive pipe smoker with GLASSES INSTEAD OF MONOCLES? True story. True, strange and creepy story.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:48 am
True story: A while ago, I was in New York for a conference. A friend and I were walking back to our hotels, and happened to be in front of Carnegie Hall when someone pulled up and asked us how to get to NYU:
Friend: “You’re asking me, in front of Carnegie Hall, how to get to NYU?”
Car guy: “Yeah. How do I get to NYU?”
Friend: “Study, Study, Study!”
March 5th, 2009 at 7:50 am
I Googled “Rikers Island,” and apparently it’s named after someone called Rycken. I suppose the name just mutated over the years, as names do.
Well, at least I’m glad it wasn’t named after the Star Trek character. (Perhaps some day Rikers Island will follow the example of Riverside, Iowa, and declare itself a “future birthplace.”)
March 5th, 2009 at 7:58 am
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doc/html/how/get_to_rikers_island.shtml
March 5th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I was once doing an interview at a radio station, and the DJ led with the question “Who are you?”
I first thought, is this guy really deep? Or did I drive to the wrong station?
March 5th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Take the Q100. The bus that sounds like a radio station. I looked it up once when applying for a job in the Riker’s medical facility.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Why is everyone always slouchin’.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Slouchin’ is to malcontents as headbangin’ is to rockers – required attire.
March 8th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Im glad i never had to give directions to a girl with a giant talking cat. that would freak me out.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Next up: Girl meets the chiropractor.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I never noticed that Cat’s glasses are but two separate monocles attached to the sides of his head.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
also: I second Marv’s question/comment
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:27 am
I will enlighten you regarding the slouching / poor posture. We comic creators often suffer from a degenerative condition known as “Cartoonist’s Hump.” It comes from endless hours spent hunched over drawing boards and computers and also from shying away from the rest of humanity (an unfortunate by-product of a creative endeavor that is mostly solitary). As artists tend to model their figures after themselves (intentionally or not), slumped over characters occur quite naturally.
Though, it should be noted, the condition can be treated with extended physical therapy in a heated pool and slow reassimilation into normal society.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Jeff, both cat and girl have been in constant evolution from day one. Would you believe me if I tell you that once, long ago, girl was a happy, albeit destructive girl with a straight spine, and cat was a compulsive pipe smoker with GLASSES INSTEAD OF MONOCLES? True story. True, strange and creepy story.