David Bowman
@dlbowman76.com
Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
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My New Year's resolution is 3840x2160.
December 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My New Year's resolution is 3840x2160.
Hmm, on one hand, I know that I'm going to see MARTY SUPREME at some point.
On the other, someone I trust said that it's as anxiety-inducing as UNCUT GEMS so I know I have to be in the right frame of mind for that experience.
On the other, someone I trust said that it's as anxiety-inducing as UNCUT GEMS so I know I have to be in the right frame of mind for that experience.
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Hmm, on one hand, I know that I'm going to see MARTY SUPREME at some point.
On the other, someone I trust said that it's as anxiety-inducing as UNCUT GEMS so I know I have to be in the right frame of mind for that experience.
On the other, someone I trust said that it's as anxiety-inducing as UNCUT GEMS so I know I have to be in the right frame of mind for that experience.
"Professor! Are you aware of the gravity of this situation?"
"Well, that depends."
"Depends? Explain yourself!"
"Are we regarding gravity's behavior as a particle or as a wave?"
"...Get out!"
(One for the physicists out there.)
"Well, that depends."
"Depends? Explain yourself!"
"Are we regarding gravity's behavior as a particle or as a wave?"
"...Get out!"
(One for the physicists out there.)
December 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"Professor! Are you aware of the gravity of this situation?"
"Well, that depends."
"Depends? Explain yourself!"
"Are we regarding gravity's behavior as a particle or as a wave?"
"...Get out!"
(One for the physicists out there.)
"Well, that depends."
"Depends? Explain yourself!"
"Are we regarding gravity's behavior as a particle or as a wave?"
"...Get out!"
(One for the physicists out there.)
Did ever any film director photograph Venice as beautifully as Luchino Visconti? I thoroughly recommend SENSO. The color is so lush you practically want to plunge your hands into it.
Senso - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Luchino Visconti • 1954 • Italy
Starring Alida Valli, Farley Granger
This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti stars Alida Valli as a nineteenth-century Italian countess...
www.criterionchannel.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Did ever any film director photograph Venice as beautifully as Luchino Visconti? I thoroughly recommend SENSO. The color is so lush you practically want to plunge your hands into it.
Hive mind! My local shop has just started carrying all the different flavored varieties of Topo Chico. Are any of them particularly worth trying out?
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hive mind! My local shop has just started carrying all the different flavored varieties of Topo Chico. Are any of them particularly worth trying out?
I feel like rereading "The Ballad of Halo Jones" now. I think you could make a case that it's one of the best things Alan Moore ever wrote. Ian Gibson's art is dynamic and so stylish.
December 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I feel like rereading "The Ballad of Halo Jones" now. I think you could make a case that it's one of the best things Alan Moore ever wrote. Ian Gibson's art is dynamic and so stylish.
One of my great regrets is that my cousin who's a bit older than me was a huge fan of 2000AD and he would send issues to me when he was done with them. I had almost all of them going back to about prog 4 and when I went off to university, my mother sold them.
*SIGH*
*SIGH*
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
One of my great regrets is that my cousin who's a bit older than me was a huge fan of 2000AD and he would send issues to me when he was done with them. I had almost all of them going back to about prog 4 and when I went off to university, my mother sold them.
*SIGH*
*SIGH*
Does anyone else remember "Dan Dare"? I've just realized that Stephen Miller reminds me of Dare's nemesis, the dreaded Mekon.
December 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Does anyone else remember "Dan Dare"? I've just realized that Stephen Miller reminds me of Dare's nemesis, the dreaded Mekon.
Ah, I see that I need to go to the art supply store this evening. What a chore. (Not really.)
December 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Ah, I see that I need to go to the art supply store this evening. What a chore. (Not really.)
“Last and First Men” by Olaf Stapledon is perhaps a bit stodgy but I’ve got to give the guy credit — He definitely thinks big.
December 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“Last and First Men” by Olaf Stapledon is perhaps a bit stodgy but I’ve got to give the guy credit — He definitely thinks big.
Baking xenophobia into the law books isn't just hateful and morally wrong, but to be blunt, it's terrible for business. Availing your company of a global talent pool gives you access to the best and brightest regardless of where they hail from.
December 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Baking xenophobia into the law books isn't just hateful and morally wrong, but to be blunt, it's terrible for business. Availing your company of a global talent pool gives you access to the best and brightest regardless of where they hail from.
If you want to feel your brain melting, read up on the mind-bogglingly stupid libertarian concept of "charter cities". These people's ideology boils down to this:
• Regulations: bad!
• Taxes: bad!
• Labor laws: bad!
• Property rights: good!
These people would get eaten by bears in a month.
• Regulations: bad!
• Taxes: bad!
• Labor laws: bad!
• Property rights: good!
These people would get eaten by bears in a month.
December 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If you want to feel your brain melting, read up on the mind-bogglingly stupid libertarian concept of "charter cities". These people's ideology boils down to this:
• Regulations: bad!
• Taxes: bad!
• Labor laws: bad!
• Property rights: good!
These people would get eaten by bears in a month.
• Regulations: bad!
• Taxes: bad!
• Labor laws: bad!
• Property rights: good!
These people would get eaten by bears in a month.
*East London voice*
"Well, we all know that West Ham is the best ham."
"Oi!"
"We've beaten Millwall before and we'll do it again."
"Well, we all know that West Ham is the best ham."
"Oi!"
"We've beaten Millwall before and we'll do it again."
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
*East London voice*
"Well, we all know that West Ham is the best ham."
"Oi!"
"We've beaten Millwall before and we'll do it again."
"Well, we all know that West Ham is the best ham."
"Oi!"
"We've beaten Millwall before and we'll do it again."
If you work from home, every once in a while, take a late lunch and go have a 30-45 minute nap. It's glorious and rejuvenates your power supply for the rest of the workday.
December 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If you work from home, every once in a while, take a late lunch and go have a 30-45 minute nap. It's glorious and rejuvenates your power supply for the rest of the workday.
Reposted by David Bowman
“War-hamster 40K” (pencil on paper.)
December 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“War-hamster 40K” (pencil on paper.)
A lot of people are posting "insults they'll never forget" and I just can't. I've been on the receiving end of so many doozies over the years that I'm in no mood to revisit any of them at the moment.
December 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A lot of people are posting "insults they'll never forget" and I just can't. I've been on the receiving end of so many doozies over the years that I'm in no mood to revisit any of them at the moment.
Speaking with young people, by which I mean people who don't remember the early 1980s, it's really difficult to explain what it was like as a kid to be continuously thinking: "Will it be today? Will the great tear of blinding light rip the sky apart before the total burning of everything?"
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Speaking with young people, by which I mean people who don't remember the early 1980s, it's really difficult to explain what it was like as a kid to be continuously thinking: "Will it be today? Will the great tear of blinding light rip the sky apart before the total burning of everything?"
A milestone: I just finished entering the last of my 2025 household fixed expenses and have started the 2026 spreadsheet page.
(I lead a glamorous life, I do...)
(I lead a glamorous life, I do...)
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A milestone: I just finished entering the last of my 2025 household fixed expenses and have started the 2026 spreadsheet page.
(I lead a glamorous life, I do...)
(I lead a glamorous life, I do...)
I will admit, I wouldn't have thought that the great Korean director Park Chan-wook would've been a natural match for Donald Westlake but five people whom I know and whose taste I trust have been absolutely raving to me about NO OTHER CHOICE.
December 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I will admit, I wouldn't have thought that the great Korean director Park Chan-wook would've been a natural match for Donald Westlake but five people whom I know and whose taste I trust have been absolutely raving to me about NO OTHER CHOICE.
Reposted by David Bowman
Alright, let's go through this once again...
November 22, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Alright, let's go through this once again...
Woot! Biopsy results back. "Negative for adenoma or malignancy" (that was polyp one) and "Negative for high-grade dysplasia or malignancy" (polyp two).
This is a rare fine thing to read as I enjoy my morning coffee.
This is a rare fine thing to read as I enjoy my morning coffee.
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Woot! Biopsy results back. "Negative for adenoma or malignancy" (that was polyp one) and "Negative for high-grade dysplasia or malignancy" (polyp two).
This is a rare fine thing to read as I enjoy my morning coffee.
This is a rare fine thing to read as I enjoy my morning coffee.
AHA! Remember that guy I was telling you about who hated my art because it was "full of lies"? I've figured out what's going on with him. Someone introduced him to Plato's Republic. Now this is a dude who has never taken a philosophy course in his life. You can see what happened here.
December 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
AHA! Remember that guy I was telling you about who hated my art because it was "full of lies"? I've figured out what's going on with him. Someone introduced him to Plato's Republic. Now this is a dude who has never taken a philosophy course in his life. You can see what happened here.
“War-hamster 40K” (pencil on paper.)
December 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“War-hamster 40K” (pencil on paper.)
If the forecast holds, this coming weekend is going to be absurdly warm and then winter weather will return on Monday like a vengeful specter.
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If the forecast holds, this coming weekend is going to be absurdly warm and then winter weather will return on Monday like a vengeful specter.
The one significant downside of using PTO is that my inbox now resembles the digital equivalent of a Japanese knotweed infestation.
December 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The one significant downside of using PTO is that my inbox now resembles the digital equivalent of a Japanese knotweed infestation.