Hello Friends!
Well, I finally did it, I finally upgraded my profile picture. Everybody else has been using the cartoon drawings my daughter has been making for them, so I thought I’d do the same.
Here’s the one of me, Shane Yirak and Arturo Dominguez:
Here’s the one of me, Nick Paro and Eric Lullove (we’ll be adding in Evan Fields the moment my daughter gets done with the drawing.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with these. Now that I have cartoon profiles of everyone, I can do little cartoons with them saying things like this:
I do kind of miss the old headshot, but it was from about 15 years ago:
My wife took that picture for the dust jacket of my book ‘Beyond Birkie Fever.’ This wasn’t the picture the publisher eventually used, but I like the smile here the best. The entire book is available for free on Substack. Actually, I should combine all the audio files into one long audiobook. Here’s the start:
Here’s a picture from 10 years before that:
Why does time have to be a thing?
Well, I took a look at my daughter’s cartoon of me and I thought it had a “Rosie the Riveter” vibe, so I incorporated elements from that old photo for my new profile picture. I think it makes sense to use an image from the last time the US had to fight fascism to rally the people of today.
Now that I have the template, I’ll keep adding in the profile pics as my daughter makes them. Here’s one of Ellie Leonard:
Perfect right! Keep fighting, everyone! Keep resisting! Hopefully this post brought you a couple smiles. There will be more serious stuff coming this week which is full of wonderful interviews. Speaking of that, here’s the schedule (all times central):
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