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owen cyclops
@owenbroadcast
comics and art: religion, parenting, modern life. i do a lot, it’s all here: linktr.ee/owencyclops
Joined September 2016
this is the exact genre of image that lost the most to the existence of AI"Nest 05" by Jakub Geltner (2015)
- three year old heard us talking about social security numbers. asked what his is. i said: ill tell you, but you cant tell anyone. he agreed. i told him his social security number is 9. twenty three minutes later he told the mailman.
- one time i was a camp counselor. the kids were seven. we all had a question about japan. one of our kids was japanese, so i ask him. the kid said: im chinese, not japanese. wow. my bad. later i met his mom. she told me theyre japanese. when i asked him about this he laughed at me
- my friend believes all body disorder originates in the psyche, so if anything is even slightly wrong with me he takes out a huge book, looks it up and asks “did [specific event] just happen to you?” and the answer is always yes. 10/10 the most annoying thing ive ever experienced.
- if you have a space like this, you eventually stop going upstairs and just sleep on the couches. soon you go upstairs so rarely that weird spiritual energy pools up there. very difficult to dissipate. starts to feel like a forbidden zone. ominous. its not yours. few discuss this.the ideal male living space doesn’t exi-
- just thought about the girl who, in her 20s, tried on my glasses as a joke and realized she needed glasses. she thought architectural details on buildings was a purely artistic "to please God" type thing, that people would just think about, but like her be unable to actually see
- when i first started as a cashier, i had a person get furious at me. kind of rattled me. guy i was working with said, “its not you. if you interact with 600 people in a row and its normal 599 times, its them”. true. so thats when i started intentionally enraging 1 customer a day.
- once again
the truth is that if you're not world class in the very competitive stuff by the time you're an adult you're never going to be, and you should stop trying to compare against that tier and do something useful instead - recently a gnome trapped me in a time loop and refused to let me out until i produced a full century of fake 'new yorker' comics, one for each decade. here they are, in order: 1923:
- the bad guy in hallmark movies is a boyfriend who is like “uh no babe i cant drop everything + leave work this weekend im about to close a deal for ten million dollars that will set us up for life” and the good guy is a guy who is just standing there when she gets to her hometown
- the turkish word for “owl” is apparently literally “mr. bird”. could never be comfortable in a place like that
- i used to teach an art class for little kids. we had a unit where each kid drew “someone powerful”. 99% of boys drew: a tank man made of tanks with tanks for arms and his head is a tank. 99% of girls drew a princess. everyone i worked with hated this and it happened every time.
Friend had terrible acid reflux for months—was sleeping upright, taking meds. Disappeared the night he told his wife he wanted a divorce.
