PUKEY PALS: puking and a pachyderm

I almost feel like I cheated on this one. It didn't take as much time or ink.

PUKEY PALS: Snobbery and Putting on Hairs

The more of these I make, the less proud I become of myself.


Finally! A non-gross one!

PUKEY PALS: Fatty Mattie and Electric Eric

My mom taught me a poem when I was little:

Fatty Mattie, Two by four
Couldn't get through the kitchen door

I never understood the two by four part. Two-by-fours are 2 inches by 4 inches. That's not big. Just yesterday I googled the poem and found the real version.

Fatty, Fatty, two by four,
Couldn't get through the bathroom door,
So she did it on the floor,
Licked it up and did some more

Yikes! It still doesn't clear up the Two-by-Four part. I was saddened to learn it's Fatty Fatty, and not Fatty Mattie. Anyway, this is what I've always imagined Fatty Mattie looking like.

When I was a kid, I touched both the + and the - prongs of a 9-volt battery to my tongue. The sensation was quite unpleasant. As miserable as it was on my tongue, I know it would be even worse on an eye.

PUKEY PALS: Pie-Hole Pete and Ivan the Amish

PUKEY PALS: Tony Toesuck and Snake Zombies

Zombies are scarier in groups.

PUKEY PALS: Girl-rillas and stuff

What color is sweat?

PUKEY PALS: un-mustache and ear food

This one actually makes me a little nauseous. I don't know why it's worse than any of the others to me, but it is. I couldn't decide which name was better.



And this one is inspired by a person I know.

PUKEY PALS: Psoriasis Sam, Warty Warbler

PUKEY PALS: Ed Dead, and Ro-Bat

PUKEY PALS: Rancid Randy and Rabie Baby

HOMEMADE BOMB MOVIE PROP

I'm wanting to make a small movie about a mean robot alien who comes to Earth. I've been building several props for this movie. Earlier I posted the robot and a gun I made. I still need a few more items like a miniature version of the robot and a UFO. This particular item is a retro-style bomb for dropping out of an airplane. It doesn't really explode but I think I can do that with video editing and sound effects. When the button on the top is pushed, it acts like an unstable bomb ready to blow at any second with warning lights and beeping to signify danger.

Here's what the bomb might look like in action.

These are the things I used to make the bomb. A large funnel, a waste basket with fins (it came that way from Target,) old broken electronics boards pulled from a radio, clear plastic trading card boxes, some electronic parts such as blinking LEDs, battery pack, a buzzer, an ON/OFF push button and some wire. I got the electronic parts from Radio Shack for about $10.

I soldered all the positive ends of the LEDs and the buzzer to the positive end of the battery pack. I soldered the negative ends to the on/off button, and soldered the other end of the button to the negative end of the battery pack. These LEDs will blink on their own. They also make non-blinking LEDs but I didn't think they would be as exciting.

On a bandsaw I cut out just enough of a radio electronics board to fit inside a trading card box. These electronics won't do anything other than just sit there and look electronicky. I remember on the Six Million Dollar Man tv show, when they would roll back the fake skin on his arm, it would look like this.

To make a hole to receive the electronic trading card box, I pencilled off where I wanted it to go, and drilled as many holes as I could along the inside of the pencil mark.

Then I used a chisel to finish off the smooth edge of the hole. There are probably better ways to do this, but my arsenal of tools is limited.

I used some of that 2-part epoxy putty to mount the ON/OFF button into the funnel spout. Before I epoxied it in there, I roughed up the funnel spout's surface with coarse sand paper to give the epoxy something to grab onto.

While the epoxy was still soft (you have about 15 minutes) I smoothed out the top surface the best I could. This was the largest button they had at Radio Shack. I would have liked it to be bigger. Someday I'd like to expoxy a larger wooden knob onto this button to make it bigger.

I made a hinged and latched door way on the back side of the body to change out batteries when necessary. The wooden block will be screwed and epoxied behind the door, inside the body as a containment area for the batteries. That way they won't slop around all over the insides of the bomb when it's jostled. Also I used the back side of this wooden block as a place to mount the beeping gizmo.

I cut circular holes and mounted small caps inside the holes to make cup-shaped recesses. I put labels with "WARNING - CRITICAL" and "LIVE" in the recesses. I drilled a hole in the center, and mounted an LED inside each one, and put them behind clear plastic windows.

Here's a size comparison next to a weiner dog.

I hade a total of 4 LEDs so I mounted the other 2 inside the trading card box faux-electronics. The funnel and the base were screwed together with pan-head screws. The trading card boxes were mounted with epoxy putty. I had extra screws so I put them around the body to give it a riveted look.

This is after I painted it. Here's the battery door in action. The 4 screws you see around the door are holding the wooden block in place.

The paint I used is Krylon "brown metallic hammered." It looks like old iron. It's made specifically for plastic. Normal spray paint will eventually flake off as the plastic ages. Before I painted it, I sanded it to give the paint some tooth. TA-DA! It's done!

Watch this video to see it work.

PUKEY PALS: Snotty Dotty

Sorry in advance.

PUKEY PALS: Yodelin' Yolanda

Not gross, just icky.

PUKEY PALS: Siamese Sneeze Eaters

I'm mixing in a few gross cards so the set is worthy of having "Pukey" in the title.

PUKEY PALS: Sylvia Saliva

PUKEY PALS: Dirty Dirt

This card was dirtied up a bit more than the others.

PUKEY PALS, part???

I felt like if I wanted to call these things Pukey Pals, I was gonna have to make them more puke-inducing. I remember, as a kid, the mind-boggling bewilderment caused by what the sun did to poo on the sidewalk.


This is an older drawing I felt fit in this gang, so I colored him and gave him a number.

MY BRAIN REGURGITATED ANOTHER PUKEY PAL

Bobby Bi-Clops, the two-eyed cyclops.

PENG!

"PENG!" is like BANG! or POW! in Chinese. I was experimenting with simple shapes and symmetry in this picture. I added a drop shadow so it would look like paper cut-outs.

CHICAGO

I just got a new camera with the panorama feature so I'm wearing it out. These pictures were taken in Chicago.

The 1st 2 pics were taken from the top of the Sears Tower.
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This is Lake Michigan, and the boy is my friend Kevin. He was the ring-bearer in my wedding.
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Left to right: Mei's sister JeiJie, me, Mei, our friend Connie. Actually Mei's sister's name also happens to be Mei, but we call her JieJie which means "big sister."


Here's Kevin trying to catch himself after almost falling off a concrete wall. We all just stood around and had great laughs as he tried to pull himself up. Boy, was it funny!
(Just teasing. I used magical trickery on this pic.)


I got lucky with this shot. A seagull just happened to fly overhead when I snapped the picture. I'm submitting it to prove I'm able to do nice things. See?! Now that I've gotten that out of my system, it's probably back to puke tomorrow.