So I never expected to end up so much better so soon, after spending nearly a year in bed or close by. 2 weeks of medicine can really make a difference once they find the right kind.

Anyway, I started doodling again, and the Threadless Loves Weird comp seemed like a fun place to re enter the threadworld. I probably wont have much more to submit for a while, but I thought i'd give it a shot.



Thanks to Littlem for the title

I just thought i'd let those that cared know that I am back home and may even be on the road to recovery. As it turns out, all of my problems may have been caused by an infection from a minor internal injury left unnoticed and subsequently untreated for the past year. I am on antibiotics for the next 2 weeks and hopefully that will clear up a lot of the problems I have been suffering from.

In the event that my health does return I will be making my much talked about move to California before spring, having already begun planning (trying to be optimistic), so mayhaps I shall meet some of you in person even though my presence at Threadless will be greatly diminished. I'll try to stop in and say hi and check the blogs from time to time, but right now im just focusing on regaining my health, and the 30lbs (as of today) I lost.

Thanks to all the nice thoughts and warm wishes from everyone, and I wish you all the best in the months to come.

I wrote and re-wrote this a few times. I can't figure out how to say what I want to say without sounding like I'm looking for pity so I think the best route is just whats on my mind and you can take it as you will.

I love Threadless, warts and all, but by this time tomorrow I will most likely be admitted into the Hospital until the Doctors can figure out whats wrong with me. Whatever started my problems may have been small, but it has taken a severe toll on my health, both mentally and physically, and now it's me that is small and frail. Today, after a series of unfortunate events, I came to the realization that if my condition is in fact small and curable, that sitting at my computer drawing pictures in a corner office, like I have for the past 6 years, may not be what I want to return to.

I put everything on hold to pursue the arts, and in the process cut myself off from so many other fulfilling opportunities. If I live to see my health restored, and I fully intend to in case anyone is wondering, I feel there is more life worth living, and that perhaps for once I put my happiness above my passion, my present above my future dreams.

Anyway, in the event that I do not return to Threadless, I felt it was best I said goodbye, because the one thing the internet still isn't very good at is letting people know why or where to someone has disappeared. Thank you all for the support, and criticism that helped me grow. Thank you for the jobs, and the techniques, and the files and collaborations and colleagues I have gotten. Thank you for the spirited debates on the serious and the insignificant. Thank you for not always agreeing with me, but always tolerating me. Oh, and thanks for all the fish.

I'll always have Threadless in my heart, my mind, and in my ads on every website I visit. Goodbye.

(the title isn't accurate, but I figured it would be enough to keep out people who have no interest in my day to day living or health)

So after 11 months of random guesses and things that didn't pan out from doctors, I came up with my own diagnosis for a rare condition, and the doctors were convinced enough that they wanted me tested for it....

...apparently, however, the mayo clinic (the test was outsourced) accidentally tested for the wrong genetic mutation...and found a genetic mutation....WTF?!

Apparently, and this isn't the whole problem, I can't absorb folic acid (an essential amino acid), but it's most likely only a condition that is exacerbating whatever is currently wrong.. or the other way around

Anyway, in the Shakespearean tragi-comedy that is my life, I found this a funny thing to share, and since I have been out of work for a couple months due to sickness (no randyotter, no new bills to pay...wrong tests are free!), its pretty much all I have to share.

Hope everyone had an awesome holiday or holidays, or 8 days of one holiday, and so on and so forth.

I enjoy sci-fi (and sci-fi comedy), fantasy, absurd humor, dark satire....I really enjoy dry wit, and compelling subtext, but even just a really good character driven story about a couple of friends might be my thing, so get crackin...

new rule: just list awesome books

Super Hario Potters, Best Screenplay, 2011

From my tumblr

from my blog @ juxtapop

from my art blog

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