Dave The Wank

New blog at oshell.wordpress.com

2010-08-09T06:36:00.000-07:00

Please visit oshell.wordpress.com to view new comics. I am quitting blogspot cause I cant get the photos to upload. Crazypants! Also, I'll be at MIX on the 21st and at least wandering around SPX and handing things out. Love!

Suicide - Ghost Rider

2010-05-27T12:16:00.000-07:00

Having trouble uploading pics for the time being. In the meantime enjoy one of the heaviest, most brilliant groups that ever played.

This is the City

2010-05-10T04:17:00.000-07:00

A Night Out

2010-05-01T09:06:00.000-07:00

O'Shell

2010-04-20T04:27:00.000-07:00

I've started working again on the memoir. Trying to get into my dad's head has been an interesting experiment.

DXing, Hobbies, and Literature

2010-04-18T09:43:00.000-07:00

The drawing is a poster I am making for my classroom.

I've been reading about DXing lately here and like a lot of other followers of Adventures in Amplitude Modulation, I realized that something I used to do as a kid - dialing through different stations on my alarm clock radio - had a name and is more complicated than I had imagined. I noticed lately that DXing, like many other hobbies, has a lot in common with reading. In DXing, listeners tune in to obscure frequencies, logging the strength and frequency of the signal, attempt to identify its source, and hoping to locate a signal previously unheard in their area. The circumstances of the moment are also of importance: the location of the listener, the equipment being used, the state of the magnetic field, the weather, and many other factors that all come together to allow a clear signal.

I'm finding that reading for me is a similar experience. I log passages by underlining, copying into a notebook, or recording page numbers on the inside cover or on the blank end pages of the book. I hope to notice details, images, or allusions that no one else has noticed. Odd factors in my life influence what i will find. For example, I reread Ulysses last summer when we just got a new cat, and I found myself really focused on all the moments in the novel involving the Blooms's cat. I was convinced that in the Penelope section, Molly Bloom suggests that the cat is in heat. I looked online to find anyone else who had noticed this. (Now I think that it was all in my head).

I think that Nabokov approached lit in a similar way, as a hobbyist. His Lectures on Literature focus on details and images, and he is so focused on details and obscure parallels, it is almost like he is butterfly hunting. I wish that schools could approach lit in a similar way, as a hobby, rather than a launching point for essay writing or in understanding literary terminology. My ideal school would have classes on Beekeeping, lepidoptery, bicycle maintenance, chess, photography, DXing, cider brewing, and literature.

Kill

2010-04-18T07:46:00.000-07:00

Training Day

2010-04-18T07:43:00.000-07:00

Nice Night

2010-04-11T13:58:00.000-07:00

this is a synthesis of a number of conversations i have with Kati. Another part of a story i have by now all but given up on.

Quit Your Job

2010-03-22T04:33:00.000-07:00

This is a portion of a story I have been writing with lots of frustration, but it's almost done.

Graduation

2010-01-02T12:26:00.000-08:00

Moving In With Dad

2009-10-26T12:42:00.000-07:00

Some of this might be unclear without reading it as part of the whole memoir. Even then it's probably unclear. I had just moved back from L.A. after one miserable year and had nowhere else to go but my dad's though he and I had barely talked. I sound like a brat because I was.

Hassan the Turk

2009-10-14T06:41:00.002-07:00

Hassan the Turk2

2009-10-14T06:41:00.001-07:00

Hassan the Turk 3

2009-10-14T06:40:00.001-07:00

Searching for an Apartment

2009-10-14T06:37:00.000-07:00

Enrico Shoes

2009-10-09T08:08:00.002-07:00

Enrico was a security guard at the restaurant I worked at in LA. Also a spiritual guide. I never got to go to church and have barbecue with him due to a rival for the interest of a girl I did not even know.

Enrico Shoes 2

2009-10-09T08:08:00.001-07:00

Enrico Shoes 3

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Enrico Shoes 4

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Enrico Shoes5

2009-10-09T08:06:00.000-07:00

Cup

2009-10-09T08:05:00.000-07:00

This is a game I invented. It uses a plastic frat cup.

Neptune is a Fine Book

2009-10-02T11:42:00.000-07:00

This is my of of my favs from SPX. His style continues to blow me away. He is I think a master of timing. Great story for kids. Two kids find a dog and escape from school. I like how the teachers are all good hearted but can't make the right decision because they are held back by their duty to the authority of the school. About time a kids' comic was worthy of From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Rocky

2009-09-30T04:16:00.001-07:00

From memoir again, all these are. "SSR" is sustained silent reading, or sit anywhere in the classroom and read something.

Trash

2009-09-30T04:14:00.001-07:00

This is from the memoir I've started writing.

Steph's Night Out

2009-06-15T04:07:00.001-07:00

Rick Roderick Lectures

2009-06-11T12:23:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

These lectures have helped me to understand postmodernism better than anything else. The ones on Marcuse and Baudrillard have really changed the way that I think about the world. Can't recommend it enough.

March8

2009-03-09T06:45:00.001-07:00

March8

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March8

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March8

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March8

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March8

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hyperreal

2009-03-09T06:40:00.000-07:00

hyperreal2

2009-03-09T06:39:00.000-07:00

Depression

2009-01-08T06:15:00.000-08:00

The guys from South Park talked about the contradiction of having to work to be happy but hating having to work in an interview I think in NYT.

Depression

2009-01-08T06:14:00.001-08:00

The last square is a paraphrase from Schopenhauer. I'm more comfortable with it than the cliche that rich people suffer too.

BreakingtheWaves

2009-01-08T06:10:00.000-08:00

I am trying now to watch every Emily Watson movie. I am taking it slow thow because she is too intense. Technically Von Treir should be arrested for making such a manipulative movie. Never had such a reaction to a movie before.

StinkyTheWorm

2009-01-08T06:07:00.000-08:00

Lately I have tried listening closely to the ambient sounds around me. Anything to stop all this inside chatter. Also focusing on the inside of my mouth, if that makes sense.

JuryDutyexplanation

2008-12-08T14:02:00.002-08:00

GummyBears

2008-12-08T14:01:00.002-08:00

BreakingTheWaves

2008-12-08T14:01:00.001-08:00

Books!

2008-12-08T14:00:00.001-08:00

JohnnyThundersCat

2008-11-25T13:34:00.000-08:00

Huizenga

2008-11-19T04:04:00.000-08:00

I have been amazed lately at Kevin Huizenga's comics on ideas. EG: http://kevinh.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-sentence.html He takes an idea or an experience and uses the comics medium to express it in a way which print cannot do. Diagramming is an interesting model to go by. I like where his and Zettwoch's method of going outside of cells to chart out a sequence or to use lines to show relationship not necessarily of time but of meaning or implication. I have been trying more to diagram my thoughts onto the page and work toward expressing them pictographically. But it is hard and I am scared.

Lot49 Pt1

2008-11-05T04:11:00.002-08:00

Lot49 Pt2

2008-11-05T04:11:00.001-08:00

Lot49 Pt3

2008-11-05T04:10:00.002-08:00

PhiloPoem1

2008-11-05T04:10:00.001-08:00

PhiloPoem2

2008-11-05T04:09:00.000-08:00

Dream

2008-10-13T03:53:00.001-07:00

GrandpaFixesAFan

2008-10-13T03:52:00.002-07:00

Google

2008-10-13T03:52:00.001-07:00

Sheep3

2008-10-10T08:00:00.001-07:00

Sheep2

2008-10-10T07:59:00.002-07:00

Sheep1

2008-10-10T07:59:00.001-07:00

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Tolstoy5

2008-10-06T04:33:00.005-07:00

Tolstoy4

2008-10-06T04:33:00.003-07:00

Tolstoy3

2008-10-06T04:33:00.001-07:00

Tolstoy2

2008-10-06T04:32:00.000-07:00

Tolstoy1

2008-10-06T03:55:00.002-07:00

WhatAGreatMeeting

2008-10-06T03:54:00.000-07:00

LionAndTheZebra

2008-10-01T04:16:00.001-07:00

ItsWes

2008-10-01T04:15:00.001-07:00

IKnewIt!

2008-10-01T04:13:00.002-07:00

Glug

2008-10-01T04:13:00.001-07:00

We Are Mark!

2008-09-29T07:17:00.001-07:00

Snork

2008-09-29T07:15:00.000-07:00

HR

2008-09-29T07:14:00.000-07:00

400Am

2008-09-29T07:12:00.001-07:00

StolenBike3

2008-09-29T05:47:00.001-07:00

StolenBike2

2008-09-29T05:46:00.001-07:00

Stolen Bike1

2008-09-29T05:43:00.000-07:00