The retrospective

Do panic

If it isn't working, maybe I'm just not panicking hard enough!

What it takes

The creative spark

Don't want to argue

"It's not why you think."

This contest needs context

Crustacean loot

This year, I got some much-appreciated crustacean loot as gifts. I wish to encourage this practice in the strongest possible terms.

My grandmother applied some serious textile wizardry to make me this hat. It's reversible and the lobster claw is on both sides of the text:

I both love and fear this stunning lobsterman sculpture from the extremely talented Sharah (backdrop added):

And maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise that this was on the bulletin board of my old bedroom:

The gift of responsibility

The means and the end

(The answer being, of course, yes, but that doesn't stop this guy's arguments from being pretty convincing inside my own head sometimes)

The body takes care of itself

Or, Life...uh...finds a way

Our life as TV

Consider books

The above image is taken from the cover of the brand-new, in-progress Volume III of A Treasury of Crustacean-American Literature:

Acceptable awkwardness

Fear fear and more

Dumb and stupider

On the market

You're bound to love this one

Heedless counsel

Keep it to yourself

Better neither than only only one

Ornithological insults

Seems like an important detail

"Well gee, I guess I'll just zip on back to the human store. Because that went well the first time."

I am about to prove myself right

Two perfectly overlapping categories

The obvious diagnosis

Self-improvement with a definite end point

The season makes monsters of us all

This is not an attempt at symbolism or deep meaning. These are doodles from my notebook that began to follow a theme, and also I couldn't think of anything else to post today. Idea juice supplies running low. Please send help.

What I was supposed to enjoy

Subjective consensus

"Hey, the floating head of Salvador Dalí?"

"Yes?"

"Are you mostly just messing with me all the time?"

"Would it make a difference if I told you?"

"Yes?"

Free is not enough

That precious gift

Just kidding. Give me gifts.