Monsters

This is a green monster called Chris. He is a silly guy with a fondness of making fart noises with his mouth. He is happy and friendly if a little mischievous monster. This is a green monster sitting and sticking out his tongue.

This is a tall ball monster named Ruby. She has yellow chucks and rainbow spines because she is an artist. She likes to play bubble bobble on her phone while she waits in line at walmart.

I am fascinated by microbes. The fact that tiny rna injecting critters float around in the air and exist only to sicken and sometimes kill us – is frightening. They are tiny monsters and eventually we will have another massive epidemic like the Spanish flu that sickened 1 in 10 people on the planet. Check out this TED talk about doom – including the dangers of the flu.

Fugazi the punk mon­ster dri­ves his hotrod race car with no muf­fler through his sub­ur­ban neigh­bor­hood at night.

When chuck the mon­ster gets lonely he resorts to his sentient boogers for companionship. As they tire of his company and start to ignore him he wipes them under his desk and thought­fully “picks” a new friend.

One of my favorite movies from the 80s is a musi­cal called “Lit­tle Shop of Hor­rors”. The music was done by “ash­man and menken” the team who scored all of the 90s new golden era ani­ma­tions for disney. I always found it kind of dis­turb­ing that the plant had such an expres­sive voice and no eyes. I totally miss sum­mer days as a kid sneak­ing to watch HBO when my par­ents were away. Hard to believe what passed for racy back then.

When I was a kid I was obsessed with nuclear war. I remember books from the 60s in my primary school library about the mechanics of global thermonuclear war. It talked about RADs, REMs and how hydrogen icbms had multiple warheads so that the bad guys couldn’t shoot them down with anti-ballistic missiles. The book was so cold, emotionless and harsh. It mirrored the scientific minimalism of the 60s. I’m certain it was written for adults during a time when nuclear war was all too real. But I think it bent my brain. It frightens me that many smart people think humanity is still in a position where it might destroy itself with nuclear weapons. Bomb icon with a transparent background.

Eugene the happy but socially inept purple monster loves his new droid. His favorite new app is Skymap. He uses it to keep track of NEAs. He is wearing a nerd beanie, round nerd glasses, 4 arms to hold 4 gadgets.

Rad the half pipe shredding solipsistic jelly monster wants more than anything to skate his heart out but his board just passes right through him.