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Welcome to my Slide-Show

Dag-nab it, kids today probably don’t even get that “slide-show” thing. They’ve probably never sat in the drowsy post-dinner living-room darkness, stuck on the floor because the grown-ups have all the chairs, listening to Mom and Dad explain an interminable series of supersized vacation photos and paying attention only when they themselves make an appearance onscreen. They probably think a slide-show is that series of pretty pictures you sit through while perusing The New York Times Magazine online. Kids today.

This page is my slide-show. I will let the viewer decide if it is more former than latter.

Slide tray number one: Easter Island Humor, a series of cartoons I drew over the last decade of the last millennium. Many of them were published in The San Diego Reader, others in the Times-Review of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Some people have complained that Easter Island Humor is a one-joke concept, others have praised it for the same reason. Either way, the extremely crude drawings are intended to represent the moai, the great and mysterious statues on the island of Rapa Nui – in particular, those statues which have been buried in the earth up to their necks.

I’m also including a cartoon that made me long for the old days of The New Yorker, in which the joke and the art were often handled by different people. I sent it to the illustrator Arnold Roth, who kindly called it a good joke and a nice sketch, but imagine what it might have looked like in the hands of Bruce Eric Kaplan.

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I once wrote that you could thank your lucky stars that I wasn't about to put sound files on this page.  Well, you must not have been thanking them fervently enough... The song is "Loose Ends."  I wrote the words.  My brother Mark wrote the melody and harmonies, and sang the thing.  The enormously talented guitarist Bill Wilson and producer Allan Phillips did the rest.  We had a ball, and I like the end result.  I hope you do, too.

Listen to "Loose Ends" 

Enjoy!