Open Letter to Mitt Romney

Dear Mitt Romney:

What's up dude? Remember when you were the religious weirdo? Anyway, I don't have cable anymore, so I don't watch any 24-hour political news channels. I pick up most of my news from twitter and this guy Rich at work who has a boot fetish and doesn't seem to like you very much. He's into Michelle Bachmann, but I remind you of the boot thing. He really does like boots.

On another note, do you like to wear boots? I bet you could get a couple votes if you wore some really high-quality, fine leather boots.

Yes, so, as I was saying, I stopped paying attention to the Republican race months ago. I do get to catch the ocasional clip of Rick Perry acting goofy or Herman Cain forgetting stuff and sexing women. Oh man, and those pictures of Michele Bachmann and her husband eating corn dogs? Did you see those? That was crazy funny. Spock, set phasers to LOL, am I right? Anyway, moving on. I tried to find out more about Rick Santorum in order to inform myself on the candidates. That guy is fucked up. It's quite a mixture of shit on the internet about that guy.

So, let me get to my point. Are you going to run for president this year? I haven't heard anything from you at all. All I know is you were in Iowa doing some weird state fair straw-drawing game. Quit wasting your time with those bumpkins and get in the race, bro! Go on Funny or Die or something.

Sincerely,

Kevin Lester

P.S. Tweet me.

P.P.S. think about the boots.

Updates

How long has it been, faithful reader? Virtually no time at all. I have nothing new to add. I am writing and drawing today after a brief hiatus for regular life things like laundry and work and such, which is mostly tedious but actually quite satisfying with the right company, which I am fortunate enough to have. So i may start posting here again with stuff. Don't count on it. Since I last wrote anything here, I have life updates.

The loving wife and I moved into a new place. This one came without in-laws, so we snatched it up. We just recently got dining chairs, so we're ready to recieve guests at this point, I suppose. Work is still work. We have a dog. She's a cute little shitter. Here she is, posing reluctantly for a picture:

Also, my dad gave me back one of my artworks from high school because who knows, he's clearing out his already empty apartment in preparation for, again, who knows, but he does that sometimes. So, I hung it up in our new home, quite prominently. It's in glass, so a non-reflective picture is hopeless. Here it is anyway:

That's it for now. Tune in some time later for some more things.





And so it goes.

I have successfully maintained very few things in my life. Blogs are never them. I always get lazy, slip up, fall off the blog wagon. I have little time in the day lately. I have just enough time to work, eat, spend time with my wife, and think up excuses not to write or draw or do anything creative. Days off involve more of the last bit. The excuses. And a lot of Netflix documentaries. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson helped introduce the tomato plant to America?

In the first three weeks of having this blog, I posted 50 entries. In the past month, maybe five or six. It happens. I will do some drawing today, if I get in the mood. I will try to post more. See if anyone starts reading again.

Here's an old picture, redone.

The staidest generation

New iphone camera app. It's pretty sweet. Just a bunch of filters, but nice ones, to add to photos. It's called photosuite. I'll posts some previous doodles that I ran through the app.

More importantly, I have been totally obsessed with High Noon. Non-iphone-users, well, go eat your own vaginas. But if you do have an iphone (or comprable device, I don't know if it crosses platforms), get this game! It's a simple multiplayer old west duel. Here's the hook. You are dueling with real people, in real time, and your digital bullets are traveling through space! Isn't that just incredible? Fucking space! Instant!


Words with Friends has a couple second delay for some reason. But, be honest, you usually only play that game sitting across the dinner table with your spouse/friend. You are your grandparents; you just haven't invested in a real scrabble board. Likely, you haven't invested in the IRA that they use to fund their trips to Gettysburg either. You have no tangible games to play, nor tangible assets to divest. You write blogs about cool new apps. You are at least two generations away from noble, interesting, even respectable people.

Anyway, here are my cool filtered pictures.

Netflix!

Did you know that The Twilight Zone is the greatest black & white show besides I Love Lucy? It's true. Indisputable. And, yes, it is on Netflix, the greatest invention ever. The reason why Colleen and I won't be paying another cable bill for a good long while, maybe forever. Well, that and bittorrent.

Other shows worth mentioning on Netflix are MST3K, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Stand (miniseries), Dark Shadows, The Tick, every Futurama incarnation imaginable, and my new obsession, Sports Night! It stars Peter Krause before Six Feet Under, and it has Bill Macy! Plus, it was created and written by Aaron Sorkin.

Speaking of Aaron Sorkin, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is also on Netflix. It only ran for a season, and it was crushed by the fact that it had a similar premise to 30 Rock. It stars Matthew Perry in his greatest role since Fools Rush In. It was a tremendous show. It is worth checking out, and it's definitely one of those shows where you will be hooked after the first episode.

I have nothing more to say. I could go on about the glory of Netflix, but I sense this is incredibly boring.