I spent all of Friday at Toronto’s wonderful Royal Winter Fair. I was sad because I didn’t want to do life drawing, and I had lost my wallet the day before… But it turned out to be a lot more fun that I would have ever expected, and I nearly came home with a bunny. However, I also learned that I am allergic to both hay and Canada’s godforsaken cold, so I think I might be coming down with something.

That, plus my ground state inability to focus on anything for more than 10 minutes, is making it hard to focus on my character poses. Which are due tomorrow. Boo.

Thats why I’m posting this guy:

His name is Bo Burnham, and his lyrics are BRILLIANT. I also love the little awkward/pleased look he gets whenever he makes a particularly racy pun. Search up his name on the YouTube to watch his other stuff. I highly recommend “My Whole Family…”. If I could rock wordplay like him, I’d hug myself to sleep every night.

Character poses and maybe some pictures from RWF up later.

If you’ve never seen this wonderful little bot before, watch this first. Its basically a squishy yellow pear with immovable features and relatively limited movement, but its still so… intriguing. Also: It re-introduced me to Spoon.

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filing for future reference: go find the tom waits cd.