{"id":206,"date":"2003-05-26T17:42:33","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T01:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=206"},"modified":"2006-03-19T21:48:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T05:48:44","slug":"yanking-doodles-3-tell-me-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Yanking Doodles #3: Tell Me A Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

My pre-school teacher announced to the entire class that she liked my drawings because they told a story. To be honest, I think that had more to do with how talkative I was and less to do with the etchings themselves. I’d stand at her desk, point at my mysteriously enigmatic scribbles, and feed her some gourmet cockamamy bologne sandwiches, with lemonade, about how this diamond family were on their way home from the ever so exciting diamond fair, et cetera, et cetera.<\/p>\n

Completely off-topic, I really did think for many, many years that B.S. stood for Bologne Sandwich. That is, after all, what my cousin Beverly told me when she taught me how to play a card game that everyone else this side of the universe calls Bullshit.<\/p>\n

But anyway, my teacher thought you could read Gone With the Wind<\/i> in my drawings, and her little statement really made an impression on me. Since then, I have tried to breathe a little bit of story into my drawings. What that story is changes from day to day.<\/p>\n

Today, I want to see what stories other people see in my doodles. Below is a small selection of pictures I drew and colored with felt tip pens over 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

Pretty please, pick one (or all three, if you like) and tell me a story.<\/p>\n

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My pre-school teacher announced to the entire class that she liked my drawings because they told a story. To be honest, I think that had more to do with how talkative I was and less to do with the etchings themselves. I’d stand at her desk, point at my mysteriously enigmatic scribbles, and feed her some gourmet cockamamy bologne sandwiches, with lemonade, about how this diamond family were on their way home from the ever so exciting diamond fair, et…<\/p>\n

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