I am, unfortunately, a dedicated conspiracy theorist.  No, not the braying, unintelligent kind like Alex Jones who has an unhinged and hidden agenda.  More the Indiana Jones kind, seeking…

Despite my skepticism about the accepted wisdom in regard to the historical William Shakespeare, I do deeply love the body of work that is Shakespeare.  My most favorite play is The Tempest, t…

The question before me now is, “What do you know, and how do you know it for certain?” Well, I really don’t know anything. How do I know that I don’t know anything? Well, So…

Doing digital art is fascinating. Once you draw a face and head, you totally turn it, adjust it, add new details, change eye color; in fact, you can turn it into a completely different picture with…

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Ken Akamatsu Japanese Manga is a complicated and difficult-to-understand thing. Of course, it is also a very beautiful art form when done well. There are many features of Japanese culture that play…

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All art on this planet (with the possible exceptions of paintings by monkeys and elephants, and the songs of whales and dolphins) is about people. What is art, if it is not a reflection of who and …

The internet is a golden treasure chest with an attached bag of holding for me.  In other words, a lot of the writing I do depends heavily on a resource that didn’t really exist until I …

When choosing whose picture to publish of all the many made-up people that live in my head and my fiction, I often wonder, do I have an accurate sense of who is important and who is merely minor?&n…

Yesterday an inconvenient internet outage interrupted my fountain of character gushing.  So let me splash a couple more on here. Tim Kellogg Tim is a school teacher’s son who is sorta, kinda,…

On my computer I keep a lot of picture files for inspiration both as an artist and a writer.  One of those files is labeled simply the “Wrong File”.  Everything in that pictur…

I have made up my mind to risk investing more money in getting another book published.  Being an author, especially an unknown Indie author, is really just an expensive hobby.  Even investing in pr…

Yes, I know this is supposed to be a Saturday Art Day Post, but you can make art in many different ways. That can include pictures made with a camera while I play with dolls… er… action…

Ah, Reluctant Rabbit using the big pencil in the front of the classroom. What could that be a metaphor for? How about teaching kids by showing them how? You teach writing by writing in front of the…

Once I was finally able to scan pictures again, I did some scanning of old pictures that only got the camera treatment before on my blog. But why stop a drawing at just the pen and ink, when there …

She’s a blue-eyed cowgirl, and she’s today’s Pafooney for no reason I can see. The song was a hit in 1973 when I was a high school sophomore, the time when I almost ended myself f…

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If you have come to my blog in hopes of gleaning some key advice about how to write novels or tell a story, then the wisest advice I can give you is, “Do not take any advice Mickey gives seri…

Here’s a bit of the file called Novel Pix (illustrations for my novels); from Stardusters and Space Lizards from AeroQuest from Sing Sad Songs from Snow Babies from Fools and Their Toys from …

I like taking pictures of my doll collection. Those pictures are then qualified for Art Day posting. So, here are random pictures of dolls, most of which are from the doll shelf in my bedroom. Not …

Today’s Paffooney is a tribute to a childhood hero, Aquaman.   I drew the picture from a comic book inspiration source coming from DC Comics in the 1960’s.  Aquaman is a B-level supe…

Tom Sawyer without the straw hat, as created by Lois Beyer You may already know about my doll-collecting mania.  You may have already called the mental health people to come take care of the p…

Yes, I read this book.  Yes, it scared the poop out of me.  Yes, it made me cry.  This is a uniquely horrific horror story that is so realistic that you know that it has actually happened in real l…

This is a post about every evil thing that Mickey has done and kept secret (or things that Mickey has been accused of even if he didn’t really do them.) he Starting with the Werewolf lie. Mic…

I was a school teacher for thirty-one years, and in spite of the immense amount of brain damage that builds up over time, especially as a middle-school teacher, I think I know what we’ve been…

Being an artist is a matter of genetics, luck, and loads of practice.  I began drawing when I was only four or five years old.  I drew skulls and skeletons, crocodiles and deer on everything.  My k…

Anita Jones is a character in several of my books, but she also represents a girl from my own childhood who was as much of a regret for me as she was for poor old Charlie Brown. Anita Jones, of cou…

Retirement is… Watching old movies… Yes, good old movies… Casablanca with Bogey and Bergman… The Wizard of Oz with Judy… E.T. with that bug-eyed alien… No more j…

You wonder how they do it, these corrupt and evil men. They fight for their own interests and act like clowns every now and then. And still, retain their power while holding the bloody knife They u…

“Today I thought I would tell you about Bruce Timm.” “Bruce Timm?  Who the heck is he?” “You know. That artist with that style… you know, the Batman guy.” …

Today’s sermon is a further attempt by Mickey to say something coherent about religion. I am trying to be a humor writer, and religion is a difficult topic to commit acts of humor against. Pe…

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So, how do you follow up a thing like starting a new religion like Quackatoonity? Should you follow it up? I mean, this is Art Day. And I need a theme for Art Day. How about, “Art with no duc…

The criminal was led into the courtroom in chains and forced to sit in a box made of metal bars so his influence would not reach out and harm anyone by drawing their sympathy in. “Mr. Prosecu…

This is artwork from this blog in 2015, a year after I retired from teaching. December … The Leap December… Annette Funicello November … The Singers November … Shannon Octob…

My title for today has at least a double meaning, if not a triple or fourple one. “Fourple?” you say. Yes, four plus the color purple. Purple, after all is the dominant color used in th…

Do not waste another day, Even if you can only play, For each new day is a gift from heaven. Each new week, composed of seven, Is there for you to do something great, And that is how you work out y…

The classic line from the visionary poet Theodore Roethke; **** This is a look back at an essay from 2017**** But the truth is, before you can BE you must first BECOME. I know what you are probably…

The Naturist I am a naturist… I need to be naked… There needs to be nothing… Between my skin, the wind, the water, and the sun. My soul has to flow… Into the world… In…

Susu in the cornfield. The girl from San Antonio The cat girl with the rainbow colors. Again, these pictures were made with the assistance of Picsart AI Photo Editor and AI Mirror programs.

Well, here it is, my most recent work of art. But what does it mean? Why are they nude? Why are they clowns? I am asking you. It is always up to the viewer to decide what an image makes them feel. …

Life is never quite like the way it is in your head.  Things you don’t believe are true will constantly surprise you with the reality they belt you over the head with at the most inoppor…

In 1927 in the mythical land of Austria, where they seem to know how to make candy… a condensed form of peppermint was created in a lozenge form and then placed into a plastic toy dispenser. …

Farmgirl is adapted from a picture borrowed from the Belmond Area Arts Council. I was born in Mason City, Iowa (the original River City of Meredith Wilson’s Broadway musical, The Music Man). …

“What’s this with the made up words thing?  You can’t just make up words!” “Why not?  I’m an English teacher.  Who better to make up words?”…