These are the words that came out of Derek Pieper's mouth when we tried to figure out why our toaster oven wouldn't close all the way and was letting in enough oxygen to set all the toaster leavin's (crumbs and straight up continents of burnt bread crusts) on straight up fire. That was setting off our smoke alarm, and that's a problem because people like to toast things in the morning.
We contemplated how many times in history that phrase had been used, and though we couldn't come up with a conclusive number, we decided the phrase was funny regardless, and so here we are, years later, making a blog out of it. One time Derek and I drew some comics, and one of them was of a canoe going off of a waterfall, and somehow this made it into the school newspaper, and somehow this convinced us that we were funny, at least to each other. So to entertain each other, and maybe you by collateral damage, we decided to draw snippets of our lives in comic form and upload them to a common blog. I'm in Viet Nam at the moment avoiding the rest of the world and Derek is at Oxford doing his Master's. Two very different lives that warrant crappy pen and pencil observations of life. When something isn't quite right, check for crumbs, it's likely something has toasted the mechanism.
We contemplated how many times in history that phrase had been used, and though we couldn't come up with a conclusive number, we decided the phrase was funny regardless, and so here we are, years later, making a blog out of it. One time Derek and I drew some comics, and one of them was of a canoe going off of a waterfall, and somehow this made it into the school newspaper, and somehow this convinced us that we were funny, at least to each other. So to entertain each other, and maybe you by collateral damage, we decided to draw snippets of our lives in comic form and upload them to a common blog. I'm in Viet Nam at the moment avoiding the rest of the world and Derek is at Oxford doing his Master's. Two very different lives that warrant crappy pen and pencil observations of life. When something isn't quite right, check for crumbs, it's likely something has toasted the mechanism.
geeezzz Marcus - hilarious introduction already....kickin' it off with a bang!
ReplyDeleteAhhh yes. Hello Derek. And so it begins.
ReplyDeleteps do you like my shitty toaster? When I realised you could upload images to the title bar I didn't have a pen or paper on me, so I used Paint.
ReplyDeletei do like the toaster....
ReplyDeletei haven't figured out yet how to get access to the blog design/layout options..that might be just in your hands as 'creator'. however i wouldn't change much for now...the simplicity of the blog is a selling point...
perhaps we should do a special feature on the "Waterfall" comic... the piece-de-resistance of our comic genius..
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that too, I'll leave that one to you. you could rip the pic off facebook?
ReplyDeleteMarcus, I miss you. Freaking hilarious. When are you gracing us with your presence? (Derek, it's not that I don't miss you either, but we were graced with your presence last week).
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