happy fun club

Concerned Fish, 2026

I've been away from Tumblr for a couple of months. It was not intentional - in fact, the only reason I didn't log in is because I have two factor set up and I didin't feel like grabbing my phone to do it (I try not to keep my phone near me while on my office computer).

During this break, I spent a significant amount of time looking inward: practicing mindfulness and thinking deeply about life.

Spring is upon me and I share with nature the experience of rejuvenation, rebirth, and the blossoming of my life.

I've lost some people and gained others. I've had heartaches and triumphs. All of it magnificent.

I've drawn a lot and noticed that I don't draw for the piece - meaning I don't draw for a desired result. I draw because it feels good to do it and, therefore, many of my drawings are random sketches. Pages and pages of random drawings. Some of them are done on Adobe Fresco, which I've shared here.

BTW I bought a bunch of amazing Photoshop brush packs and textures from G.A.R.M., Retro Supply Co, and True Grit Texture. So much fun! If you need recommendations for brushes and textures let me know. I have most of their popular products.

Are you fascinated by life? I am. Its infinitely amazing. I love learning and reading and staring out purposelessly at the horizon. I'm so curious what each day brings, what each interaction with someone might provide - an opportunity perhaps to share or receive joy.

I was in the 6th grade.

There was a kid named Aaron Lau - an early 90s foreign kid. He had a strong accent and a different way of dressing.

In an attempt to make friends, Aaron approached me and my buddy Alex in the hall. He handed us each a Snickers and a little flyer.

"HAPPY FUN CLUB" it read at the top. "PLAY GAMES AND WIN PRIZES"

Aaron was trying to make friends by passing out flyers and candy bars to encourage schoolmates to join a club he started called THE HAPPY FUN CLUB.

I didn't join the club, sadly. I wasn't mature enough to see through the social and cultural boundaries all around us for what they were: illusions. To me he was some strange foreign kid who wanted to make friends by starting a silly little club. If I could go back, I would have joined that fucking club.

The people who say "this isn't what I voted for"

Listened to him say grab em by the pussy

Watched him mock a disabled person

Let him say that he prefers soldiers who weren't captured

They're eating the cats and dogs

Mexico is going to pay for the wall

Cheated on all of his wives

34 felonies

Epstein's best friend

Incited an insurrection

but THIS isn't what you voted for? You dumb piece of shit this is EXACTLY WHAT YOU VOTED FOR.

A narcissistic, opportunistic, corrupt, greedy, pervert, liar, conman.

This is what history will speak of the MAGA "Christians" who from one side of their mouths praised the words of Jesus, declared virtue, and professed democratic values - and from the other demanded subservience, scoffed at the suffering of others, and abandoned empathy.

They sent in police on horseback and shot rubber pellets at journalists. They carried with them tear gas, batons, and hostility.

The escalated military presence was in response to the people's resistance against the unlawful kidnapping of immigrants and people who look like immigrants.

Beneath the reprehensible dystopia was a flow of solidarity - an aura, invisible to the naked eye and immune to hegemonic poison, connecting everyone in their opposition to an authoritarian outbreak.

We have in common our humanity. It is but a natural response to protect one another from those who seek to unjustly force their will upon us. They despise class mobility, fear any challenge to the status quo, and guard the crypt of massacres where they attempt to bury their past.

The irony of how this nation was built in the first place is not lost on me.

I grew up in Los Angeles. I have a peaceful nature... and I have a street nature - equally trained in survival as an animal in the jungle.

Baby, this is L.A.

Eminem M&M Sticker

The collab we've waited for. Marshall Mathers as a candy coated chocolate bite sized snack. Stickers are fun to stick on stuff and gift to others. Be kind.

Get it here! :

Welfare Queen and Greed Stickers are here!

(From left to right you can see the progression from a rudimentary painting aesthetic to a standard digital art painting to one that has more realism applied, the Thai pepper.)