let's start this bitch!

ok, so enough procrastinating!  i've been talking about starting this blog for a while to share some of the "sickness" that we've been creating for a few years now.  this whole mess started innocently enough with a quick doodle here and there to vent, make fun and just pass the time.  as a waiter in a restaurant you've always got a pen and pad of paper on you and a dining room full of characters to be inspired/annoyed by, so it was bound to happen. 

i've always been a doodler and a collector of said doodles and odd keep sakes.  i have a folder full of drawings and passed notes/dirty drawings from high school and a stack of old notebooks that i've kept just because of the doodles in the margins of most of the pages.  at this current restaurant where i work i have become the curator of piles of drawings, fucked up notes and bizarre newspaper clippings that my cohorts and i have come to know as "the satchel of life". (don't ask!)  i have a fucked up o.c.d. thing where i need to save and catalogue mementos like these.  one or two drawings were thrown into our junk drawer, then a few more were added to an envelope for safe keeping and as the months went by envelope after envelope were then transposed to an old school, sticky-paged photo album.  the drawings and clippings just kept coming as the stuffed envelopes were taken out of the drawer to my home for safe keeping.  now we's bout to git all internetty in this piece!

a couple of ground rules to help make sense of "the sickness": 
i will be making posts when i can in a somewhat chronological order but more so thematically - i ain't that o.c.d. with it!  i'll credit the person responsible for their contribution to the satchel - i'm not gonna be blamed for all of this sick shit!  due to a nervous nelly owner/boss i will be keeping the name of the restaurant anonymous.  i'm going to try to tag recurring characters and/or themes to make it easier for new comers to understand who's who and what it be.

aaaannnd heeerrre we go: 


i guess i'll start with our demented version of "exquisite corpse". wikipedia says:

Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

our version started with a creepy little image of a girl (?) in a pink beret that i found on the side of a produce box (spinach, broccoli rabe - does it really matter?).  i posted it up at the wait station when she was quickly named by Mikey as "Francine".  Amy, Amanda, Joe, Mikey and i added to the legend of "Francine" from there.



Francine