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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Pat McCuen Draws a Fine Line with I.B. Nosey




NOSEY: Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter! I’m officially unofficially on my way to an interview with… yuck! *sounds of struggle* Hey, what’s this goop on the sidewalk? I - can’t - *strains* get -loose…

VOICE: Nosey, that’s an official unofficial ink puddle. My ink puddle, as a matter-of-fact.

NOSEY: Huh? Who are you? Wait… you look kinda familiar with that bearded jaw and— what’s that crazy gizmo you’re clutching so tight there, pal?

PM: Name’s Patrick McCuen. And this is my pencil. It never leaves my side.

NOSEY: A pencil? Who uses pencils these days, fella? Everything’s gone wild and ‘net techy, just in case you’re not rolling with the latest news.

PM: But you are?

NOSEY: I are what?

PM: Yeah, I’ve often wondered what you are too.

NOSEY: Sure, I’m— huh?

PM: *chuckles* I’m techy, Nosey. But I happen to need pencils.

NOSEY: For what? Adding two and two? Let me help ya out there, dude. Two and two comes to the grand ol’ sum of…uh…er…um…

PM:  Uh huh. Like I said, I need pencils, Nosey, for drawing things. Like my comic strip, “The Devil & Gandhi”, mushrooms, greeting cards. And you.

NOSEY: Whoaaa! *blinks* Me? Did you say me?

PM: Yep. As a matter-of-fact, you’re right now in the middle of my newest ink puddle sketch.

NOSEY: *frowns in thought* Ya know, there's something about you... Yeah! *snaps fingers* Your beard, that’s what it is. Did ya know that curly strand number 1,356 does NOT match strand 1,357?

PM: *whistles in wonder* You can count?

NOSEY: You bet your inky pinkie fingers that I— heyyy!

PM: But there’s a problem, Nosey.

NOSEY: There sure is. You’re smearing smudges all over my atomic Nosey microphone!

PM: Not that. It’s your dark sunglasses. Maybe I need to lighten ‘em up a bit…

NOSEY: *sounds of hand slapping* Don’t touch me, fella. Haven’t you already done enough?

PM: Like what?

NOSEY: Hellooo! Like the smudges, Mr. Artiste. Yeah, and besides that, you’re the one who gave me this long, pointed nose.

PM: But, Nosey. It fits you.

NOSEY: Yeah, well, this blazer doesn’t fit. Does NOT fit.

PM: What’s wrong with it? I thought you were hip-hop cool about your...shall we say, unique... coloring.

NOSEY: Nothing wrong with the tweedy-weedy style, man. The problem is that you left off my muscles!

PM: *coughs* Um. Did you say muscles?

NOSEY: Yeah, give me huge Rambo muscles. After all, if you’re gonna sketch a macho guy like me, ya need to get it right, heh heh.

PM: Ah. I do see one muscle that needs a touch-up.

NOSEY: Which one?

PM: Your mouth.

NOSEY: *gasps* No dice, fella! *pulls leg out of sticky-wicky ink puddle* I’m outta here!

PM: Nosey! *races behind the fleeing Nosey* Get back to my drawing board!

GANDHI: *awakes from meditation and watches the bizarre scene*…Friends, remember this wise Gandhi proverb: ‘Where there is no Nosey, there is peace and sanity.’

NOSEY: Hey, you. Mind your own business! *streaks past Gandhi* Don’t be giving this mad cartoonist any bright ideas!

PM: Too late, Nosey! *waves pencil in air* I have an eraser and I know how to use it!

NOSEY: Aaaiiiiii!



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