Random Thoughts and Demons

Random thoughts at 3:18am while waiting for a flight from Oakland…

My new website, Michael Hopkins Cartoons, is now working and available on the internet! The genesis behind the new site is to create an online location where fans of my art can access everything that I have created through one location. To use airline terminology, a kind of *hub and spoke system for Michael Hopkins Cartoons stuff. 

*hub-and-spoke

adjective

ˈhəb-ən(d)-ˈspōk 

: being or relating to a system of routing air traffic in which a major airport serves as a central

point for coordinating flights to and from other airports

My new site does exactly that, which includes the following,

• The Michael Hopkins Caricatures Online Store 
• Michael Hopkins Event Caricatures 
• The Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog 
• My webcomic, Cosmic Fowl 
• My webcomic, Missed Approach 

I have also included an event calendar so people can see where I'll be appearing at events (and I have some ideas for some pretty quirky events, so stay tuned). This way, people who are interested, can get their caricature drawn. I'll also have my prints available at these events. So, checkout my website and let me know what you think.

Michael Hopkins Cartoons

My plans for the future also include a revamped iamscribbles YouTube channel (because my last attempt sucked!)

Welcome to My Nightmare

I actually had a nightmare last night, something that was totally unexpected. The premise of what seemed like a short nightmare, was that I was living in a house which had several items that were possessed (that’s right! evil spirits!!). Anyways... these items had to be removed from my house to exercise these demons (which I did, thank you)…and then I woke up. 

My amateur analysis of this dream is that I have to remove certain things/bad habits from my life that are impeding me from achieving my goals (i.e.,success). Although I'm not going to get into what these personal demons are (that's too personal), however, they are in fact, impeding me from achieving my goals. I definitely can identify these demons and I'm definitely going to exercise (exorcise?) these personal demons (that was a bit of a clue)...and no, I don't use drugs or drink too much alcohol, so guess again :)

Well, the flights here, so I need to go pump some Jet A into a well used Boeing 757.

 Enjoy the rest of your sleep!

 

Lollygagging

One of those thought provoking moments happened the other day, while discussing my future caricature events with a *wantrepreneur.

*wantrepreneur a person who aspires to be an entrepreneur, especially one who never realizes this ambition -https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wantrepreneur )

I realized something during our conversation, this guy’s got his shit together more than I do (which doesn't mean he's got his shit together, it just means that he's got his shit together more than I do) The difference between him and myself is that he has specific, formulated and even some activated plans. I don't know if I’d agree with him that his plans are good plans, but at least he's got plans and I respect that. Lately, I feel like I’m just lollygagging through this life of an artist (with an end goal of self independence (or happiness, as I like to put it.) He’s proactive about his goals, I’ve been reactive about mine.I need to become proactive.

Skip : You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!

Larry : Lollygaggers!

Skip : Lollygaggers.

Bull Durham (1988)

To that end I have decided to quit lollygagging. Sure I've gotten by as a Lollygagger. Luckily my talent has been carrying this reactive person through life lately. However, the talent side of my brain is getting tired of carrying the load, so it's time to wake up the other side of the  brain and become, Proactive Man!! (UGH! I’m going to need more coffee…). With that end in mind, I'm working on my first step.. I’ve reutilized the name Michael Hopkins Cartoons, built a new website and now I’m just waiting for Internet Gods to recognize my URL, michaelhopkinscartoons.com (in the Internet Gods defense, it’s been a while since I used that URL) Through this new website, one will be able to access all my stuff though one website

• The Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog
• The Michael Hopkins Caricatures Store
• (Booking) Michael Hopkins Event Caricatures
• Missed Approach (webcomic)
• Cosmic Fowl (webcomic)
• A list of upcoming Michael Hopkins Event Caricature Events. 

So as of this moment in time, I'm still waiting on Squarespace to get it's shit together and help me get my shit together. I'll keep you updated.

Following are a few highlights from my latest gigs. Enjoy!