Hi everyone!
Just like everyone to know that during football season, The Achillian Graphics Company takes a temporary backseat to Wolfpack Cartoons. This year, I’m pleased to announce that Wolfpack Cartoons has launched an all-new look and increased user interactivity. So head on down to Wolfpack Cartoons and browse around. Even if the football team don’t play all that well, we’ll still be there, plugging away for the next game.
It’s no secret that NC State University has seen some trying times recently.
But we’ve got to keep going, not only for the good of the school, but for North Carolina, the nation and the world.
In times of trouble, it’s important to recall the words of the great Wolfpack basketball legend Jimmy V.
And that’s how I arrived at the above cartoon.
“Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”
In the meantime, we’ve been given a wonderful new Chancellor in Dr. Jim Woodward, and there’s no question that he knows exactly what it takes to get the job done.
The Old Lamp-Lighter (external link - mp3)
by Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra
For some reason I became obsessed with this song, “The Old Lamp-Lighter,” a couple of years ago while listening to a 1920-50s singers & standards station on iTunes radio. Well, the station has since vanished, but the song marches on. I have no idea why in the world the little nugget bounced back into my brain the other week, but for a couple of days I couldn’t stop singing it over and over (much to the frustration of my girlfriend, Robin, as we were on vacation in Old Wilmington.)
So I’ve decided to incorporate it into something that makes a little more sense (as much as anything makes sense in my imaginary world,) and use it as a set-off point for a chore of New Achillian’s night-shift patrol (General Gestalt and MekaØscar) to perform. Seems to me, the two people who have to man the graveyard shift’s first duty is to go around the populated areas of town and light all of the lanterns so that everything’s not completely dark.
Then they can get back to sitting by the alarm bell waiting for something to happen in the quiet, sleepy ruined-metropolis of New Achillia.
