Least I Could Do

Fridays, we open the Larchives, Lar’s extensive archive of art work oddities, and share a few pieces. Everyone’s favour artist uncle, uncle Lar, starts the year with more charity than most of us manage by December. He uses his time and talent to create original avatars in exchange for donations to the MS Society. In […]

I turn 42 in 2022. Regular readers of this blog space may notice how much time I spend talking popular culture, and yet I never reference literature outside of comic books. That’s because since high school, I’ve struggled to read fiction. I don’t know what happened. I read avidly in elementary school, and tried for […]

Fridays, we open the Larchives, Lar’s extensive archive of art work oddities, and share a few pieces. Every so often, Lar loses his mind. That’s the only explanation for why he spent a week churning out a dozen original cartoons featuring gnomes. Gnome puns. Gnome pop culture mash-ups. And, as specifically requested Sohmer “to help […]

One of the first examples that comes to mind when I think of shows that my friends think I should watch purely because I HAVE to watch it is Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. “You HAVE to watch The Marvelous Mrs Maisel,” they said. “It’s so funny.”“Oh, it’s a comedy,” I ask.“No, it’s a […]

Fridays, we open the Larchives, Lar’s extensive archive of art work oddities, and share a few pieces. I’ve never been to San Diego Comic Con. I enjoy Montreal Comic Con, but not as much as the days before the comic convention boom. Sometimes I pop in my Chasing Amy DVD just to watch the opening […]

The binge/starve cycle of streaming shows wears me out. Case in point: Lost In Space. I didn’t get into season 1 right away. It took the right combination of friends telling me “you HAVE to watch Lost In Space, it’s sooooooooo good” to check it out. I liked it a lot, and watched the second […]