Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Howdygram Store is selling cloth face masks now!

MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2020. I have zero motivation tonight. ZERO. Sam and I just finished watching a ridiculous horror movie called The Wasp Woman (1959) starring Susan Cabot, and next up is the biopic They Died with Their Boots On (1941) starring Errol Flynn as General George Armstrong Custer. I don’t know if the Custer biography is accurate or not, but it’s definitely top-notch entertainment with some unforgettable performances.

We’re crazy about Errol Flynn movies here, and I’ve probably got nine or ten favorites stored on our DVR. We never get tired of them! In addition to They Died with Their Boots On we also have Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Dodge City (1939), Virginia City (1940), Dive Bomber (1941), Gentleman Jim (1942) and Objective: Burma! (1945). (Sam and I have watched Captain Blood so many times we can recite the dialog verbatim.)


Know what? These are probably some of the best free fonts I’ve ever shared with you! Tonight’s list includes some breathtaking scripts (“Asnita,” “Winters,” “Stayline,” “Winnie Marrie”) with a vast number of fancy alternate characters and swashy things, large families of traditional serif and sans serif fonts (“Basier,” “Mantonico,” “Open,” “Roboto,” “Rubik,” “Hartwell”), excellent layered fonts (“Steamed Hams,” “Nigthwel,” “Chicago”) and several wonderful display fonts (“Beauty Angel,” “Herold,” “Parisio,” Narrabeen,” “Ryder Gothic”). I think my favorites are “Winnie Marrie,” “Ryder Gothic” and “Monkey Alone.” I can’t wait to use them!

Download links will appear below the graphic. Enjoy …



WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020. Ready to add something chic to your social distancing going-to-the-supermarket wardrobe? You’re in luck, because I’ve just created my own line of snazzy CLOTH FACE MASKS for The Howdygram Store! Woo-hoo! The yellow and black tiger-striped design (see below) is the one I ordered yesterday for Sam, but there will be approximately 45 designs to choose from by the time my entire line is uploaded and ready for shoppers about 48 hours from now. Everybody in your family needs one of these! In addition to the aforementioned tiger-striped mask (the one I ordered for Sam), the other designs pictured here are a black and red photorealistic burlap lumberjack plaid, a gold and black cheetah print on a coral background, and teeny red hearts on a silver gray background.


I’m also working on new mug designs, more iPhone cases and a new collection of greeting cards for Christmas 2020 featuring a series of stupid cat cartoons.

Believe it or not, if I didn’t have occasional creative projects like these to get my artistic juices flowing I think I’d probably blow my goddamn brains out. Nobody wants to lie in bed day and night feeling: 1) limp; 2) achy; 3) miserable; 4) immobile; 5) useless; 6) creatively unfulfilled; and last but not least … 7) completely crappy. When I design a few face masks, number six magically disappears!


THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2020. I would have published this post on Tuesday night except I’M CONSTANTLY SOUND ASLEEP, which makes it practically impossible to finish a paragraph you’ve been writing and writing and rewriting for three days.

Yes, while as I’m on the subject, this sleep hoo-hah is driving me crazy. Yesterday, for example, I woke up a few minutes before 10 a.m. — just in time for my visiting podiatrist appointment* — then conked out again as soon as he left and slept another eight and a half hours until 7 p.m. so I wouldn’t miss dinner. (I try never to miss a meal if I can help it.) My hospice R.N. says that long periods of sleep is a definite sign of “decline” … along with peeing more than I drink, changes in my digestion (i.e., pooping patterns) and so on. I’m learning a lot.

My regular podiatrist (Dr. Wright) didn’t come over this time because he’s elderly and wants to quarantine himself from the coronavirus. So the practice sent me a new one. He was very pleasant, didn’t talk much, and was so gentle with my feet that I fell asleep while he was cutting my toenails, which can be tricky because I’m diabetic and my nails are as hard as concrete.

So here’s what’s going on at Howdygram headquarters for the rest of the week.

THURSDAY, 4/16. It’s almost 3 p.m. and Sam is expecting his buddy Bob to ring the doorbell any minute now. Bob is a social worker for the hospice that’s taking care of me. Oddly enough, he only has a relationship with Sam … not with me! (I’m okay with that.)

FRIDAY, 4/17. We’ve got our maid coming around 11 a.m., and sometime in the afternoon my hospice R.N. (Martha) will be here for my weekly checkup. With any luck, I’ll sleep through both events … same as I did last week and the week before!


It’s time for a snack and this week’s episode of “Top Chef All-Stars.” In case you’re interested, I don’t enjoy the All-Stars as much as I do regular “Top Chef,” because the All-Stars are such egomaniacs.

Thank you for reading this.
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