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The Vast World of Fisher Price Little People

Fisher Price Little People have expanded way beyond what you may have grown up with. You can get pretty much any character in a cute, compact Fisher Price version:

So you can now conceivably create a Nativity scene where Homelander, Blanche Devereaux, Cosmo Kramer, Moira Rose, Captain Raymond Holt, Keith Richards, and Megatron visit the Baby Jesus in the manger. Hey, why not?

The ProofrEADJer: Day After Boxing Day Edition

"excercise"

Comic Strip Where The Last Panel Is Always A Remote Oil Rig

Five New Businesses That Just Opened In Brooklyn

EADJ Wishes You A Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Well, maybe happy isn't the right word. How about reverent? No, that sounds like "Reverend," which Martin Luther King, Jr. was. How about blessed? No, too religious, although that works because MLK was a Southern Baptist minister, right? Hmm. 

Okay, how about just "EADJ hopes you honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day." Is that too pushy now? What if people don't want to honor Martin Luther King? Well, that makes them racist, is what I'd say. But still, why would a stupid blog like this be so presumptive to be pressuring people into honoring a civil rights leader?

Happy Monday.

Coming Soon To the EADJ Crappinema: "Dead Awake"

"Death Is Only The Beginning." Apparently it captures the essence of the movie so well, the producers saw fit to slap in on both the front and back of the DVD.

I knew this was an EADJ Crappinema contender when I read "Dylan is transformed by supernatural forces."

Hope you've got thick skin, Nick Stahl.

And Now, Vince's Uncle Roberto With How To Draw A Rose

The drawing of roses and flowers comes down to good observations and a solid confidence in drawing, but there are simpler ways to draw roses, as they aren't that complicated to get right.

First, create a rough outline of your intended rose drawing, starting off with a simple line for the stem and a couple of tiny branches and just a rough circle shape for the flower petals later on.


Then, form petals and leaves on the outline. This is the important step of sketching in the petal formation, as you want it to look right, I suggest an unsymmetrical approach, as this makes the petals look real.


Next comes rose shading and detailing. The darkening of the pencil lines now makes the rose drawing more defined and we can start adding the shading to the flower.


Finally, we finish off the shading. Here we have the final rose drawing, all shaded and with the pencil lines cleaned up slightly, When I've finished a simple drawing like this I like to leave well alone, before I add too much detail and other things that detract from the subject at hand.

Just remember that with anything you draw, it is far easier to break down the steps into easier to manage bite-sized steps.


And speaking of bite-sized, I once drove a party of fourteen midgets to the airport. Fourteen! They tried to stiff me, saying I was driving them by weight, but I charged them per head. As I should.

Unfortunate Logo Du Jour

From The Metro Newspaper, an ad for some upcoming condos:


Guess they were going for "classy" and "organic." What they ended up with looks like "two mice escaping a vaj."