In this week’s list of 10 newsletter:
- my message to graduates
- the album cover for Alice Cooper’s School’s Out
- the joy of pinning words to the wall
And more! Read it here.
Pool comix
When we’re not making pool poems, another way I keep sane in the pool with the kids is by drawing comics of them in my waterproof notebook:
I occasionally enlist their help. Last summer at the beginning of the pandemic they helped me draw an epically dumb comic about a nose that gets sick:
Pool poems
When I was a kid, my mom and I would played “The Alphabet Game.” We’d pick a theme and then try to come up with words for each letter of the alphabet. My eight-year-old and I have started our own alphabet game, only we use it to make dada-ish nonsense poems together in the pool. (I jot them down in my waterproof notebook.)
