Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 13hA friend of mine did a photoshoot for her and got me her autograph. I lost it though. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Got a tune stuck in my head and almost had to call @populuxe.blacksky.app and whistle it to him before I worked out that it was a 26-year old Kyoko Fukada song, followed by the realization that she must be in her fifties now 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/20261. I think you were living in Turkey at the time and 2) yeah, sorry about that 010
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So instead of "Night Fever" we all sat around her rec room and listened to "New York Mining Disaster, 1941," or whatever it was called. There was very little boogie-ing going on that evening. 000
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So when I was in 8th grade I had this crush on a girl, and she was a HUGE BeeGees fan, as was the style of the time (mid 1970s) I was invited to her birthday party, and as a gift I bought a "BeeGees" album which was a rerelease of all their 1960s stuff. 100
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I feel like there's still a balance outstanding here 031
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Proton will give you a free account and I hear their privacy is pretty good 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026No idea why. Undiagnosed and self-medicated AuDHD means a lot of stuff that happened in my 20s was inexplicable. But I talked to one of my heroes for a while on the phone, and it was cool. RIP Matt Howarth. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But I recall him being engaged and interested. I remember he was asking questions, and not questions like "How did you get this number?" We talked for an hour or so. I agreed to write up some stuff for him to review. I hung up the phone. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I called Matt. He answered. I told him who I was and he had heard of the book. Completely off the top of my head, I pitched him a story set in the Old West about an alien ship crashlanding outside of a small town in Texas. Maybe this is just my dim memory (It was 40 years ago), 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Maybe it was someone at a con who knew him. I forget. But I had Matt Howarth's home phone number, AND I knew the secret dial-out code to make long distance phone calls on Airplane Co's dime, AND I had a job where I mostly sat at a desk all night and wrote stuff for myself. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And the day job is actually the night job. I worked in the machine shop at a large aircraft manufacturer in Seattle, who shall remain nameless. I work the swing shift, 3 to 11:30 PM. Now, I have no idea whatsoever how it transpired, but I got a hold of Matt's phone number. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Stan's art is outstanding, consistent, and unique. My writing is...plentiful. We do some cons, get some press, yay us. Not quite making enough money to quit the day job. Not quite making enough money to buy lunch at the day job, tbh. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026These weirdo artists convince me that I can make a comic book, too. It's about 1986 and the bw boom is on. My friend Steve and I hook up with Stan Shaw and create *Billy Nguyen, Private Eye*. Sales are... not encouraging, but we keep at it. Got some good reviews. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Then I find Savage Henry, in which Matt put the title character and his clone girlfriend in a band with an atomic goddess, Hunter S Thompson's alter ego, and Cthulhu, along with Conny Plank. Loving it. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Jump ahead a couple of years. I'm in a comic shop and I see Ron Post on the cover of a comic book. It's issue #3 so I dig around and find #1 and 2 as well. To this day, the only creator who comes even close to Howarth's conglomeration of art, SF, and dangerous music is @evandorkin.bsky.social 120
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Chrome Bauhaus Foetus The music was described in words usually found in Jack Kirby dialogue. It sounded weird, dark, confusing, and fucking dangerous. I had to have some. But alas, 98002 was not a happening ZIP code back then. (Still isn't.) I might as well have been trying to score a moon rock. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't know exactly when it was; late high school or when I was in the Air Force, but I came across a BIZARRE comic strip. It was Ron Post holding an alien baby and talking about a band called SPK. The article also talked about other bands: 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I also was on the lookout for interesting music, although being a suburban Nuevo Wavo baby meant that I could only find bands that were on SNL in my local shops. I could find DEVO and Elvis Costello and the Cars, because they had been on TV so the Pay n Save in Auburn had the LPs. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So here's my Matt Howarth story. My AuDHD brain insists on telling you all about how my whole life I have chased unique art styles, especially in comics. Take it as read that I grew up idolizing Walt Simonson's Manhunter and his one-off Dr Fate special, any issues of Heavy Metal I could find, etc. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Garn, Stephens, tell'm young'ns how ya almost caught that big mouth at Lost Lake agin." 020
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The best part about this whole story is that I haven't thought about this motherfucker in YEARS. Died in reviled obscurity. Nice. 010
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Are we not, as a nation, long past giving even the tiniest shit about what dribble leaks out of the speech center of Bill Maher's decrepit brain? Put him on the same iceberg as DJT and push them both out to sea. 010
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I need to grow a set and start telling people when I do NOT want to do something. 000
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"It's just this button right here. You just gotta press it." 010
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is my sincere wish to someday meet the person who invented “six-seven,” and kill them on behalf of every third grade teacher in the world. 020
Reposted by Goot HibsonClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳 12171420
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Whatever "Spark" is, it seems almost purposefully designed to attract the 3-Year-Olds Rooting Around Under The Sink market 000
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a former FSQA Manager in the food industry, let me just say: what 000
Reposted by Goot HibsonJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3545471101
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And now that will be stuck in my brain the rest of the day. 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Welp, (slaps knees, stands up) my day is made. See ya later. 020
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Southgate Roller Rink has been around for, I think, about a thousand years. I'm pretty sure it was originally a Duwamish longhouse. Seriously, I have so many memories of skating there in the 1970s. 130
Reposted by Goot HibsonDerSensibleMaulwurf 🧑🦯➡️🇫🇷 @hspmauli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider ? Il s'agit d'une enfant née le 17 août 1941 à Berlin. Elle a été enlevée à ma tante, alors âgée de 17 ans, par les nazis. Ma mère et ma tante étaient françaises et se trouvaient dans des camps de travail forcé à Berlin. 1/3 12050
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026VIETNAMESE DRIVERS TEST Q14: When facing the wrong direction from the curb should you: A. Enter the roadway and turn at the next intersection to face the intended direction; B. Do a fucking 23-point turn in the middle of the goddamn street/alley/parking spot 020
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026However, I will never understand why the UNIQLO in Saigon insists on selling Heattech items. 010
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Walking into MUJI reminds my nervous system that I am not in fact currently being pursued by bears 110
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The slogan set off my Irony Meter: "Just the News, No Noise." 000
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It doesn’t matter how awesome one’s significant other might be; every so often you’re going to walk away from a conversation with them wishing for a cigarette 010
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"You should really paste a bunch of cheapass gold-colored stuff on the walls here. Loads of it. I got ours from Temu." 010
Goot Hibson @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just my luck that neither of the motherfuckers work right 010
