3:30 pm------------------------------

Buzz is gonna call again soon. I just know it. He's called like 40 times in the last two days asking how I'm treating his comic.

Buzz (P.J. O'Ross) is a guy I know who does a comic called Stinkfish in the CityPaper. He's quite a character. He kinda reminds me of an older version of Nathan. He's quite full of energy. I met him at a CityPaper party about a year ago, and we've been hanging out ever since. When I met him he had drank quite a bit of boxed wine, was wearing these crazy glasses and an american flag tie, and was taking pictures of everyone with a Nickelodeon Fun Blaster camera. He drives the messiest station wagon in the world, and noone really knows if he's homeless or a millionaire. It doesn't make much sense. He originally got his cartoon in the paper by paying $400 a week to run it as an ad. He apparently did this for months before they finally just told him that he could have the space. If you met him, you'd probably think he was homeless, but he always tells me that he owns a bunch of houses and has a lot of money. One day I asked him where he got all his money from and he paused for a second and said. "I can't tell you that. I assure you it was nothing illegal though." He paused again and then said, "I will tell you this though... Let's just say that I took a sting and tied it to something and put it out into the Gulf of Mexico... That's all I'm gonna tell you..."

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For a while last year he was running my head in his cartoons. He made me into the young version of his characters the "Schwarm Triplets: Buzzy, Lefty, and Runt Schwarm". The comic itself is quite a hard thing to describe, so I'm just gonna scan one and put it here so you can see it for yourself. Buzz also has a < a href="http://www.bendependent.com/stinkfish/">website. I saved it from getting deleted by one of the free hosting sites a while back. I have a few pictures of him, but they aren't very good. There are a couple of them on his website. He's the guy with the drawn on purple mohawk. Here's one that's up on josh's site of him playing with my gumball machine. I need to fix his page. If you want to open one of the images, right click (ctrl+click for macs) on it and open the image in a new window...

Anyway, Buzz is in the hospital, and he asked me to do his cartoon this week. It was pretty hard to do. I can't imagine making something so insane every week. I tried to post a picture this morning after I finished it at 6:08 am. It was a funny picture too. I had pigtails in my hair so that it wasn't in front of my face. I've been putting my hear into a big crazy spike thing lately while I draw so i can see. I'll post the picture in the responses later cos due to the magic that is killoggs, it didn't work this morning.

sorry for the tangent...

Anyway, Buzz has been doing Stinkfish for like 5 years now or something. He has called me from the hospital every 30 minutes or so telling me things to put in the cartoon. He has also called EVERYONE else at the paper several times. He called Josh yesterday too. He's on a phone abusing frenzy. It's just a matter of time before he strikes again. Last night Jason told him that I had decided to just run an old Garfield cartoon in place of his cartoon... and that it really wasn't even a funny one. He kinda freaked out over that. It was pretty funny. Anyway, here's what I came up with. I think it kinda captures the spirit of a Stinkfish cartoon. It's one of the craziest things I've ever made though. I think I'm gonna try to go visit Buzz in the hospital. I need to find some wheels.

I had to draw a bunch of new heart people for the paper this week too. They were to run as a full page ad, but as of today it has been cut to a half page (which means half of the characters get cut). The ad's headline is just "Find Love", and the text just consists of different Matches ads that were placed in the classifieds. I had to read them all and turn them into heart people. It was a lot like drawing the killoggs heads, but with hearts instead. The top has a Sherlock Holmes heart and a girl heart with a telescope thingy, and the heart types I illustrated were that of a dork, a middle aged gay professor, a retired boxer, a hip girl with clunky shoes, a young gay doctor, a silly girl, a yuppie, a girl wanting guitar lessons, and a leather wearing vegetarian. See if you can tell which one is which...

5:30 pm------------------------------

So I think Buzz has officially called everyone who works at the paper. He got someone to fax him the cartoon that I made for him. I think he quit calling me directly because of it. Now I keep getting transcribed notes from random people who work here that I barely know...