All weekend long, my brother kept sending me photos and videos in real time of his son, my 10 year old nephew, at an archery range…. shooting bows and arrows… his beaming face blinding anyone in the near vicinity as he proudly posed beside the bulls eye he just killed… (well, the actual target was on the side of a wooden sculpted deer… somehow, he shot perfectly straight into the deer’s butt hole… bulls eye).

After properly praising him for his awesomeness, I joked and told him how amazing it will be when he can someday shoot apples off the tops of people’s heads and rob money from rich people to give to the poor…

Thus, the idea for last week’s Santa Monica show poster was born… nothing fancy, just a lighthearted doodle of a kid with an apple on his head, and arrows narrowly missing him (and the apple)… a memento keepsake for the downtrodden and their i-Phone background or iPad wallpaper…

1) It occurred to me, after the fact, it is probably not a great idea to enthusiastically encourage a 10-year old how cool it would be to shoot apples off people’s heads… I will feel especially terrible if he tries it with his 8 year old brother…

2) After i posted the poster and sent it out everywhere, I also realized… that just two days before, in Santa Monica (where we were playing) they had the tragic murder shooting spree by that evil monster Libyan idiot piece of garbage… killed 5 people… it was a big, national story…

I know, there’s a big difference between guns and bullets, and bows and arrows… but I probably should have waited to draw a boy getting shot at… at least, in the same town during the same week as the horrible tragedy…