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Published on 28 June

We All Scream – Demo (Original Song)

By Ted , In Crusades
MAGA Screaming

The once and future irrelevant song about the American political climate. Do we still taste the same thing?

# Donald Trump, Music, Politics, Songwriting, The Nutrients
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Published on 23 June

Ghost, Frog, Fly, Poop (Sketch)

By Ted , In Pleasures
Ghost, Frog, Fly, Poop

“Higher-order mentalizing” began with a ghost and ended with a fly – neglecting the hypothetical desires of a poop.

# Art, Biography, Scatology, Sketches
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Published on 11 June

Animated Marginalia (Sketches)

By Ted , In Pleasures
Sketch of a streaker

My marginal doodles, animated by AI: A pissed-off bear, a three-eyed bon vivant, an angry schmo, a streaker.

# Animation, Art, Biography, Peace Corps, Sketches, Video
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Published on 02 June

Bubble Tea (Sketch)

By Ted , In Pleasures

With my new colored pencils, I rediscovered the feeling of sorcery, remembering that we see with our brains, not with our eyes.

# Art, Biography, Science, Sketches
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Published on 03 May

A GingerJury of My Peers

By Ted , In Crusades
Jury with a statistically improbably number of redheads

I was the star witness in a trial with a statistically highly improbable jury composition – perhaps unfairly so.

# Biography, Sketches
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Published on 22 April

Pauline Spacing Out to Newton (Sketch)

By Ted , In Pleasures
Pauline Sketch

A discussion on Newton’s apple incident and the laws of gravity leads (logically) to a pencil sketch of a daydreaming dog

# Art, Dogs, Science, Sketches
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Published on 15 April

Rat’s Revenge (Sketch)

By Ted , In Adventures
Dead Rat

A decomposing rat found (by its odor) in an unexpected place – a rental van owned by a self-proclaimed car-hater.

# Africa, Art, Madagascar, Sketches
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Published on 14 April

Portrait of an IPA Bottle Cap (Sketch)

By Ted , In Pleasures
Beer Bottle Cap Sketch

A friend’s reminder that “drawing is good for the soul” inspired a sketch a bottle cap from an IPA, a rarity in Madagascar.

# Africa, Art, Madagascar, Sketches
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Published on 14 December

Joni Mitchell’s “Mean Old Daddy” Writes a Mother Lode

By Ted , In Adventures, Pleasures
Joni Mitchell

In “Carey: Genesis of the Song,” My friend Cary Raditz transcends the cane-wielding character trapped in the Joni Mitchell song.

# Africa, Art, Biography, Cameroon, Music, Peace Corps
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Published on 05 September

Jimmy Buffett Can Kiss My Ass (Original Music)

By Ted , In Adventures, Pleasures
Vezo Fishermen

Jimmy Buffett seemed so at ease in the wider world, he was one of the musicians who made me want to expand my horizons.

# Africa, Biography, Madagascar, Music, Songwriting
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