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@calicotomcat.bsky.social

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weird lesbian guy. draws cats n stuff. vocalist in gutmachine ☕️ ko-fi.com/loosemoose

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · Aug 9

if you wanna help with my overdue credit card payment, I’d be happy to draw a little sketch for you as a thank you! put a little note of what you’d like drawn, and I’ll do my best to whip something up for you :) ko-fi.com/loosemoose

A sketch of a hyena and a little bunny, about to cutely touch noses.

A sketch of a fat butch wearing only underwear and an apron, cooking at a stovetop while smoking a cigarette.

Sketch of a butch gardening, digging into the dirt and touching one of her plants.

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 1d

trying to learn how to program drums in ableton but I just keep making weird break beats with ominous piano chords overtop

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sylvia @sylvibullet.bsky.social · 2d

mr. & mrs. frankenstein, pleased to meetcha.

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 2d

halloween is all about slapping a costume together the day of and praying to god

moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 2d

what the hell man

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 2d

the scariest thing of all happened this halloween day: I got my period for the first time in like 4 years

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 3d

So annoying when I am learning a new skill and I don’t do it perfectly immediately. Life is so unfair

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ppilotco 💫 @ppilotco.faith · 4d

the me that you see is made up of the me within me within me

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Bird 🌲 @nepeteaa.bsky.social · 4d

Gray Fox in the Shoreline
ink and digital color

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thinking about any monster at all.

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 4d

someone tell him

A drawing of a big beetle. It is saying “what the fuck is going on”

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 7d

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

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Part Bear, part Fish, all Pie @bearfishpie.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday Cow Tools! Here’s Gary Larson explaining how it made him “want to crawl into a hole somewhere and die”

A page from Prehistory of the Far Side, explaining the reception to the strip. Copy/paste to the rescue:

The "Cow tools" episode is one that will probably haunt me for the rest of my life.
A week after it was published
back in 1982, I wanted to crawl into a hole somewhere and die.
Cows, as some Far Side readers know, are a favorite subject of mine. quintessentially absurd animal for I've always found them to be the situations even more absurd. Even the name "cow," to me, is intrinsically funny.
And so one day I started thinking back on an anthropology course I had in college and how we learned that man used to be defined as "the only animal that made and shaped
tools."
Unfortunately, researchers discovered that certain primates and even some bird species did the same thing—so the definition had to be extended somewhat
to avoid awkward situations such as someone hiring a crew of chimpanzees to remodel their kitchen.
Inevitably, I began thinking about cows, and what if they, too, were discovered as toolmakers.
What would they make? Primitive tools are always, well,
primitive-looking-appearing rather nondescript to the lay person. So, it seemed to me, whatever a cow would make would have to be even a couple notches further down the "skill-o-meter."
I imagined, and subsequently drew, a cow standing next to her workbench, proudly displaying her handiwork (hoofiwork?). The "cow tools" were supposed to be just meaningless artifacts- only the cow or a cowthropologist is supposed to know what they're used for.
The first mistake I made was in thinking this was funny. The second was making one of the tools resemble a crude handsaw-which made already confused people decide that their only hope in understanding the cartoon meant deciphering what the other tools were as well. Of course, they didn't have a chance in hell.
But, for the first time, "Cow tools" awakened me to the fact that my profession was not fust an isolated exercise in the corner of my apartment.

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"Cow tools." Someone sent me the front page of one newspaper
3 B14.)" T was mortified.
which, down in one comer, ran the tease, "Cow Tools: What does it mean? See In the first year or two of drawing The Far Side, I always believed my carter perpetually hung by a thread. And this time I was convinced it had been finally
severed.
Tenically, when the dust had finally seuled and as a result of aft
"aise" it made,
"Cow tools" became more of a boost to The Far Side than
ayahing else.
so, in summary. I drew a really weird, obtuse cartoon that no one understood edwasn't funny and therefore I went on to even greater success and recognition.
Yeah—T like this country.
"The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon by Gary Larson, obviously went too far to the side some time af0 and threw great chunks of the populace into panalto confusion." - Newspaper Columnist, Chicago
"Tasxed 37 people to explain the 'Cow tools' (cartoon) of last weok but with
D0 luck. Could you help?* -Reader, Califomia
"Enclosed is a copy of the 'Cow Tools' cartoon. I have passed it around. I bave posted it on the wall. Conservatively, some 40-odd professionals with detoral degrees in disparate disciplines have examined it. No one understands it. Even my 6-year-old cannot figure it out...We are going bonkers.
Please help. What is the meaning of 'Cow Tools'? What is the
meaning of life?
-Reader, Texas
'We give up. Being intelligent, hard-working men, we don't often say this, but your cartoon has proven to be beyond any of our intellectual capabilities.
•..Is there some significance to this cartoon that eludes us, or have we been completely foolish in our attempts to unravel the mystery behind 'Cow Tools'?" -Reader, California

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 4d

Guy who has a headache

moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 5d

erroneous the

moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 5d

listen to the media club plus, the bonus show from the hit podcast friends at the table, to hear my wife talk about narfs

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 5d

makes you think

Drawing of me and Sylvia sitting on front steps. I ask, “do you think you would’ve liked ‘Signs’ more if it had a Narf?” Sylvia turns and looks at me. Then she stands with a thoughtful expression, saying, “y’knowww…”

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. Yes.

moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 6d

my fun new challenge: make a comic sometimes

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 25d

what made the cows laydown

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 6d

I’m out

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🥩vee @mogfoil.bsky.social · 10d

i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad) get into woodworking

• In his A support with Tana, in the Japanese version Cormag says that he's thinking of disappearing. Strangely, the English version changed this line so Cormag instead says that he's thinking of getting into woodworking.

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 7d

I like the way you’ve been playing with textures and hard/soft edges!

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 7d

unfortunately I never watched sesame street or any of the muppet movies as a child so it is nice to partake in

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moose aka gayboy @calicotomcat.bsky.social · 7d

just watched the muppet movie for the first time and wanted to cry at least 3 times while watching

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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 7d

A grocery store calling the cops to keep people from pulling food out of a dumpster is permanently etched in my brain as people with money and power deciding if they can't profit, they would rather see food rot and people starve.

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