The ones I see the most often are in Chapter’s Book Store…with the Wannabee-Intellectual crowd. And then there’s one in the trendy part of town, with all the bohemians and metro-sexuals and what-not.

A lot of pained-looking people, underweight, and dressed in black. Drinking their Venti Knobbuccinos.

You’re generalizing about tortured-intellectuals.

The last time I went to Starbucks with Seestor, we were surrounded by quiet individuals hooked up to their free Internet service.

Which Starbucks do you go to?

@Viking Thunder,

I like your idea too. Perhaps one of those Starbuckians will notice Friar’s doodling, and think he’s Hugh MacLeod. I’m certain it’s Starbuckians who purchase MacLeod’s Gapingvoid drawings and business cards.

Damn! That’s not a bad idea.

If I can filter out the tortured-intellectual frappacino-talk.

your doodles may suffer though. You would be doodling about vikings working on thier screenplay paying 5.60 for 12 ounces of coffee.

Yet…he never wanted to paint. Go figure…(?!)

Yup, your dad had more artistic talent than I did. I remember coming home from my first oil painting class and I showed him my first ever still life painting.

He set up chianti bottle of dried Japanese lanterns, and green pepper on the kitchen table. He took a small piece of arborite and proceded to create a much better painting than mine, in a much shorter period of time, with not one lesson.

I guess he took after his dad, who was a master cabinet maker. Just for fun, your grampa created original fine inlaid wooden jewlery boxes with wooden veneer remnants.

Ah, very good then – now we know what we can call Friar when he becomes one – a Graphical Recorder aka Mr. Vee See ARRRRRR…

@Friar’s Mom,

I agree, his doodles are funnier – so therefore, they are worth more money.

I think I must have got my artistic talent from Dad. He was damned good.

Which is ironic, because he never had any interest in drawing or painting. What a waste…!

@Brett
If I can convince people to pay $500 a doodle, I might just make minimum wage!

@Karen
Oh…that woudln’t work. My doodles have little or anything to do with the meeting. It would hurt my brain.

Your dad doodled during long chats on the phone (especially long distance family calls with is mom). Put a pencil or ballpoint in his hand and give him a scrap of paper, an used envelope, or thenewspaper and he’d doodle away. He’d start with an arc, or a square or a letter and outline it, and insert something geometrical. Unlike yours it evolved into a detailed abstract.

@Brett,

I always learn from Friar’s posts. I have never heard of MacLeod’s Gapingvoid. I checked out MacLeod, Friar’s doodles are more humorous.