#choo-choo train

[thatsbelievable]

[johnbyrnedraws]

John Byrne with his Choo-Choo train drawing. 2014.

There have been many influences in my artistic career, but the one who I will always credit as having jumpstarted the whole thing was my paternal grandfather, Frederick Arthur Byrne, who, when I was a baby, would hold me on his lap, hold a piece of chalk in my right hand, and draw on a small slate. 

I still have the slate, recovered from my grandmother’s house when she died. On it is a choo-choo train which she preserved and which, given the damp English climate, has eaten into the board to the point that it cannot be erased. The oldest existing John Byrne original, vintage 1952!!

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus,

Things to note: You have some crayons that have Sesame Street characters on them, so sometimes you refer to all yellow crayons as “Big Bird,” red ones at “Elmo,” and orange as “Ernie.” Also, you like lining things up into a “choo-choo train.”

Dad

North Little Rock, Arkansas. 9.30.2019 - 6.09pm.

[avicinda]

choo choo!!!

[avicinda]

I love that Infinity Nikki calls the train Choo-Choo Train but today I learned from the CN map it is called there 呜呜列车...

呜呜 is wūwū which is literally pronounced "woo woo" (flat tones) I love that so much (the last 2 characters just mean train)

[wickedzeevyln]

Nests

Spend quality time with your children. I know you’re tired, but they aren’t. They’ve been waiting for you all day. They’ve been waiting all week. In this lifetime you only have a small window to spend around the people to whom you mean the world. Tough day at work? Leave it at your doorstep. You’ve exerted a lot of effort to maintain a positive image. You’ve mustered all the strength to push the…

Nests

[new-ship-blog]

I'd like you to meet the gishies...

[grapesofcath]

into the whiteness.  from a cozy amtrak window seat.  nyc-bound hudson line.