moon traveller herald

 4th of July Invite - 1970s or1980s - 

  October marks the 20th Year of Jack Vaughan's Moon Traveller Herald Blog. Featuring here some drawings from the site. I could imagine this might be incidental art for a podcast. Attemmpt at a daily comic. Middle panel shows me as I picture myself in my office. Mitt Romney drawn via Etchesketch. Helping foreigners in the Dallas Airport, I reimagined the Boarding Pass. Ed Bride garnered me the works of MoonDog. I made a cover for the cassette. Gifs provide Animation for Everyone. In these days I would have to do the coding. In the wake of 911 things changed. I tried to work with charcoal pens. This actually predates the World Wide Web. It imagines JP Morgan visiting Egypt. I was remembering Soulville Record Store in Racine. Jack and Norman had the Keys to the Kingdom. Also in Racine, the Journal Times truck would drop off the papers and Timmy Egan would fold them to throw. He'd let me ride my bike along with him on his route. Distribution of News circa 1957. Imagined Bob Dylan ...

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Jr.: When are the legs coming? Pop: I cried cause I had no legs til I saw someone who had no head. Ma: Dont listen to your father, Junior.  Today a lay-off of 11,000 at Facebook which had payroll of 67,000. What does the future hold? All things in moderation, including moderation. But seriously, there have been few great self-foot shootings in tech history on par with that of Mark Zuckerberg's. About a year ago, he said hello to the Metaverse. His metaverse is one of legless people that look like bad cartoons. It's okay to fail fast, but not big and fast. And funny. As far as legs go ... they are "working on it."

This is informational fragment of poster we did for the late '70s union drive at Boston University. It's so neat, I must have gotten a lot of help!  

Have a poem yall...two from the Vault combined. Taking vacation - see you there after! - JV i. Waiting for Bob La France to pick me up in the Long Red AMC Marlin All anticipation in the night of Nitty Gritty Playing Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits in the anticipation Eyeballing a zit in the truth-telling mirror Getting psyched When Everybody Needs Somebody shook the radio Entering the long dark dusty archive - Soulville - to get the 45. And I Found a Love. 634-5789 - A Racine Exchange! ii. But the Juke Box at the Lucky Cue is the altar where we share these offerings.  he Lucky Cue was punk for us!  Recall The Cue: You walk in there and the juke box is playing.  Two long rows of greenfelt tables, pinball machines up front, more tables and a mezzanine level in the back.  And the juke box is playing  96 Tears,  Sometimes Good Guys Dont Wear White,  You Gonna Miss Me, and  Pushing Too Hard, by  Question Mark and the Mysterians,  the Standells...