I’m back home now, finally, from a two-week whirlwind tour of Chicagoland. Of course, it’s always good to be back home to my pups and my pictures, but I have to admit I miss all my new friends as well.

I’m overwhelmed, I really am. You’ve all endured my blogging and have remained my fans anyway. So as promised, this creature (a self-portrait maybe?) that I’ve  conjured will soon be sprung from it’s cage and land softly in the hands of one of you wonderful fans; with nary another peep from me.

When I first asked my Facebook fans to help me find 16 new friends in less than a week I never thought it would happen over night. Thanks to my fans (that being you) my fan list grew by 30+ in less than 6 hours.

Since the launch of my Facebook page my goal was to have 300 fans by the end of January and with only a week left I have to find 16 brand new super awesome fans.

I have certainly had my share of memorable Christmases. Like the year I got the plaid pants and seedy yellow sweater vest or the gift certificate to JC Penny’s portrait studios that just happened to arrive as a stocking stuffer that same year.
Or the year I got my official Sea Hunt scuba diving watch that stopped working as soon as I took it into the tub.

I’m back. At least I think so. But then again, maybe I didn’t go anywhere, I really don’t know for sure. I was picked up at a Target in Chagrin Falls, Ohio standing in a check out line with an arm full of Don Ho CD’s and oven mitts but I don’t know how I got there… weeeeeird.

“Where do I get my characters?” It’s the most commonly asked question when I’m out in the real world. Right behind, “Could you please direct me to the restroom?” and “Where is the latest TWILIGHT installment located at?”

I’ve never drawn Barack Obama. Thinking back on it now, I imagine I could’ve gotten into it; maybe even reveled in it. Okay, yeah, on occasion, even reaching that euphoric state of frenzy again, whereby I’d be reduced to a giggling, unshaven shuffler who mumbled dialogue bubbles to himself while standing in line at Chipolte’ (not that I ever did that).

Here's something that I think anyone concerned with kids, education, peace and justice throughout our planet and galaxy, should know about. David LaMattina and Chad Walker, two friends at Blue Sky Studios have created a feature length documentary about a pen-pal program between a group of at-risk sixth graders in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn and orphans in war-torn Freetown, Sierra Leone.