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MUSTARD GUMS LION FACED TORTOISE PORPOISE

The Mustard gums lion faced tortoise porpoise is an aquatic pest which lives in the icy temperatures of the deep sea. They have slimy oblong bodies growing up to 14m long with easily cracked turtle shell exteriors and a yellow belly. Their face resembles that of a lion with feces colored gums. Vestigial arms occur along the sides of the body while a large main flipper at the tail is used to propel themselves along the ocean floor. Struggling sea barnacles and other creatures of the sea have been trapped in a torturous pattern of dependency clinging to their mucky skin for a convenient mode of transport.

“Mustard gums” thrive on kelp but choose to eat leftover sea crud, discarded boat scraps and alcohol. They’ve been labeled as “mermaids” by seafaring wenches and pirates with scurvy. In its courtship process, the male mopes around escorting, feeding and eventually leeching onto a female, breaking them away from the pack while trying to copulate with them, often ejecting large fishy excrement through their mouth near others in a bid to mark its territory.

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DATA HOG
Sniffs hot packets. Lives in darkness of active power lines, cat-5 cables, local telecommunications hubs, industrial routers, undersea fiber optic wires. “Ohm-nom-nom” munching sound of the Data Hog can sometimes be heard as a low hum coming from bundles of cables. Very territorial and becomes aggressive when environment is disturbed or awaken from slumber. Highly volatile and capable of high voltage electric shock if gazed upon or touched. Do not interfere with them.

Dear Lee,
I’m hungry… could sure use some more of those eggs you cooked for lunch. That was quite delicious and nutritious. Thank you for the coffee too. You’re swell.

–PAT

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A baby has been born today. The baby has been born today. This is not a boy this is the girl. I wonder if this baby will be a soybaby. I wonder. We shall see. I’m going to check it out today. Right now I am in the parking lot. I am looking for parking. This is the new baby. I am not sure what to do now. By the way this is not my baby. I’m not close to having baby and the very thought of having a baby is frightening. I’m excited and anxious and nervous. I’m looking across to the other building and I see somebody leaning over the balcony. They might be smoking. I saw some mother with a baby smoking couple weeks ago.

–PAT

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The water tree is only visible to people who are drowning at sea. It completes a graceful number as the individual’s lungs are slowly filled with salt water.

dance and calls

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HEAVEN LEONID
Also known as Angel Leonid, the Heaven Leonid is born among interstellar rock clusters. These are swarms of crystalline organisms with smooth, spiky exterior, housing a flexible inner core with bulbous, leggy tendrils that protrude at the rear, wrapping around a larger, posterior muscle. Traveling across distances spanning many galaxies the Heaven Leonid is a gargantuan creature that feeds off of hot gasses, dust and astral debris as well as microbes released by colliding into warm rocks or planetoids. It is a slow mover but capable of launching through space at a consistently brisk pace, gaining momentum exponentially with the use of perfectly timed, minute wiggling. Heaven leonids have been spotted in great numbers, sometimes shrouding the sky in flashes of fire. Their hard shell exterior acts as a heat shield but is far from adequate protection to ensure survival entering Earth’s atmosphere. “Survivors” either burn up completely in mid-air or collide into the earth as a shower of tiny fragments. Their sole progeny on our soil is an adapted form known as the Earth Leonid (Sulfur Leonid) and their microscopic cousin, Sweat Leonid.

[Heaven Leonid hurtling in space]

SULFUR LEONID / SWEAT LEONID
Microscopic descendant of Heaven Leonid, the Sweat Leonid is a tiny creature responsible for obnoxious fumes and acid rain. It lives in globules of hot mammalian perspiration and can also be found in deep earth crevices where dense pockets of heat and moisture collect below the surface. Their outer bodies are puffy and light yellowish in color. If in danger or crushed, they release a gaseous cloud to ward off predators. They breed in nests called geysers and their collective release of gasses shoot out in an omnidirectional spray to aid in migration. The remnants of Sweat Leonoids’ dying bodies form a layer of yellow rock in the earth’s crust that has become our solitary source of sulfur.

[Sulfur Leonid trapped in a droplet of pig sweat]

PAT

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Sitting in Lee’s kitchen going over some drawings we did a couple hours ago. I used a fat black marker to make some random sketches of what ended up being a snake like reptile with two big arms and a dinosaur thing in back. I went over it with watercolor pencil for general coloring and Lee cleaned it up. After that I began work on a spider which quickly evolved into a detailed view of her cactus flea. She has yet to color that and I already completed another creature we talked about, the sky worm–think of a whale / jellyfish / slug / hippo / manta ray / totoro. All of these have a sort of caricature look to it instead of the cutout style we set out to do this afternoon while eating yummy sandwiches in the car. It’s getting late. Here is what we have so far.

[above: Lee's kitchen with sketches of cactus flea, sky worm and "cripplesaurus." the last pic is the ghost from Super Mario bros 2 appearing in cracks on the studio floor.]

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Lee and I just finished eating Vietnamese chicken barbeque sandwiches–tres delicious! We’re making something for tonight which will include some previously discussed creatures. Just some sketches, throwing out some more ideas for what will eventually turn into our little animated short film. Right now we are in the process of cleaning out the Oakland studio because we’re moving our junk across the bridge to Alameda. We have a bunch of cutout shapes of hands, heads, lightning, clouds, bacon, eggs, burnt toast, and golden fork & knife.

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Dear Pat,

I woke up not remembering how I fell asleep. I feel like a complete bum. The transitioning from insanely occupied with deadlines, commute and school stress to waking up at 10 am having hour long breakfasts is not going very well. The semester that had just ended sucked most of my creative energy and I feel like the spiral weasel, although completely removed, left traces in my body. Are you coming over for lunch?

Lee

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