Things Behind the Sun

"Love this life....Don't wait till the next one comes"- Crowded House
This is for Mike- who's having a rough go at the moment- You've got
support everywhere you look, brother...you are loved.
Me and Mikey spent a hot august weekend at my sisters cattle farm
in upstate new york. we were doing some hard ass labor-shoveling cattle shite
outta the barn, bailing hay,plowing the land and the sun was friggin merciless!
around mid-day when it became unbearable, we went in to "cool off", but my
sister's farm is old school, and they gots no air conditioning! so she opens the
broken screen door to "cross ventilate" the place. mike and i are chillin,
drinkin beers, and loungin...i decide to pick up the book and throw down
a quick sketch and tell Mike to hold this pose.....anyway- since the screen door
was busted, we started getting overrun with flies. about three or four times during
this sitting, MZ would start slapping at the air around him, saying. "Goddamn Flies!"
and then resume his pose EXACTLY as he was! whatta great heart!
but after the fourth time, I couldn't draw anymore- I was laughing too hard...
I added the "Goddamn Flies" as a goof, showed it to Z- he gave me the finger
finished his beer, pulled the legs out from under the lay-z-boy and tried to go to sleep....
be strong Mikey-
frogdaddy