Happy Halloween from Kristin Leigh and C.O'D.

I made this as a poster for The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. My original idea for a COD piece was a cartoon of the witchy woman performing sinful acts in ritual worship of the Dark Lord.... but this is a more tasteful option.

I was very excited to see such a great response from the other rally-goers... And I'm sure dressing up like Sarah Palin had something to do with it. So many people were eager to snap a photo of/with me, and those who didn't still chuckled, grinned, gave me thumbs up and even hugs! The hugs were my favorite because it was two cute grampas and a high school punk kid.

Here's a better look at the creepy crawlies in the background of the piece. I plan on eventually turning them into a fabric pattern.

My dearest thanks to Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central, the National Mall, the volunteer workers especially the two who started laughing as soon as I came up the escalator into D.C. en garb, the guy who shared his animal crackers, the Minnesota family who helped me get on camera and raised their tall son to have manners and let me get in front to see, the American flag greenmen for being awesome, anyone who smiled at me, Mandy and Eric for driving, Megan, Greg, Sarah, and Scott for allowing us to stay at their houses, anyone who gave me food, and all the drunk U.D. freshman who provided delightful evening entertainment after the rally.

Aqua Buddhists for Rand Paul.

My latest sea monster:

Aqua Buddha

What's an Aqua Buddha, you ask?

Let me explain...

This is Dr. Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, and candidate for the Kentucky U.S. Senate seat. Just like any other good Christian politician, he's got a closet full of non-Christian skeletons. Back in the day, when young Randy was just a lad attending Baylor, he was part of a super fun secret society known as the NoZe Brothers, whose mission was to terrorize the administration, pull all kinds of wacky liberal pranks, and apparently force female students to smoke bongs and worship bizarre deities.

photo: The NoZe Brothers. Rand is the one who could pass for Church Lady dressed as a Vietnamese rice farmer.

A woman who knew Randy and the funky bunch (pictured above) in their glory days reported that one time after trying to convince her to get high with them, the crew blindfolded her, took her to a creek, and forced her to bow down in worship of a god called "Aqua Buddha."

This story is far too good to let slide by. I've given it some very serious thought, and come up with my idea of what this Aqua Buddha fellow looks like. I may even go L. Ron with this one, and start my own religion, and write a whole series of holy books, of course featuring young Randy as prophet number one. Probably not though. I do intend to put this on a shirt though. Let me know if you want one.

Here's the underdrawing: