TOO MUCH TIME, TOO LITTLE

Because I spent so much time with superpaint yesterday, I failed to do my laundry and did not go to the bank. So that's what I'll have to do today. See, the restaurant where I head for lunch on Wednesdays closes at three, and they prefer not to have too many people come in close to that time. Which, having been in the restaurant business myself, I can understand. So instead of doing laundry in a timely manner before lunch, I continued drawing an illustration of a virus till after one o'clock. I'm a bit obsessive that way.

Lunch, pipe smoke, errands, shopping, tea at a favourite bakery.

Crystal pears (水晶梨 'seui jing lei') for the Indonesian woman downstairs, and some big Toishan filled buns (台山大包 'toi saan taai baau') for my landlady. Neither of them get out to Chinatown much, I fear. Plus two types of odd Asian potato chips for my apartment mate, as well as a toisaan bao for her. She, too, doesn't get down to Chinatown nearly enough.

By the way, all three of them are ethnically Chinese.
And presumably they are seriously into food.
And I'm a Brabander. So naturally I am.

The above is not yesterday morning's virus. I drew it after returning home to relax. Along with some birds, and two landscapes. Did I mention obsession? Viruses are elegant, sometimes, and their pictures could very well be company logos or cigar band illustrations.
"Smoke Rotavirus Nicaragua Perfectos! People love Rotavirus!"
Or Chikungunya Hondurans, maduro panatellas.


You know, there are good reasons why I am not in Marketing. And I really loved S. Frog's advertising campaign for Conquistador Instant Coffee, name changed to Conquistador Instant Leprosy. As featured on Monty Python's Flying Circus.


"Conquistador Coffee brings a new meaning to the word vomit!"


A free dead dog with every jar. Conquistador: the tingling fresh coffee which brings you exciting new cholera, mange, dropsy, the clap, boils and athlete's foot.

Brilliant. Could really make coffee drinkers stop and think.
And they'll finally know the name Conquistador.


Perhaps you don't want Rotavirus.
At least not in your mouth.


You know, I would be keen to try Conquistador.
It sounds exciting and hip.



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