Happy New Years all! Hope 2023 is a Rockin' one! Comic by Dan Smallegange.

 

My Friend Found a Mixtape I Made her at Carleton University in 1994 (and sent me a picture)

 

I would recognize my chicken scratches anywhere. I loved those times.

Transactional

Transactional she said

Transactional you are

Or seem to me to be

Always making deals in order to be getting some thing

In return

Your nature she said

Transactional

Why not see other things she said

Don't worry so much about

Endings

Happy or otherwise

See beauty in nature and pause and take it in inside

See the lovely things birthed by decay also

Pause and search through the dust and refuse

The reactions of daily strife

There are lessons there to sift and find

Superficial she said

You can be this too you are this

She said

The surface is not sublime

It is the mind which lasts the long haul can't you see this pal

It is deeper things that last through time

A quagmire too this life we live

Always wanting always yearning you are

Sensating what is all you do

Pulsating your heart quickens

You won't last either

Your heartbeat gonna crash crash crash

You'll soon begin to wither

Without better nourishment son

Than surface dreams and desires

Without better accoutrements

You won't last far or long

You growl and think you are wise and giving

But something always in return you're getting

Change your ways oh brother

She said

Stop being so damn

Transactional

By: Daniel Smallegange

Buzzard and Rat. Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

Comic by Dan Smallegange. Snail Bros (For some reason I draw a lot of snails lately :)

 

In Honour of World Cup, Discovered My 1991 High School Soccer Team Pic. (I am next to goalie)

 

Snail Whodunits Comic By Dan Smallegange

 

Snail Melodrama. Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

An Unusual Condition

Your ambition at this time and place

Is unusual

An unusual condition

You and your ambition

It stings my eyes when I

Reach out and stroke it

It collects anger and indignation

In the folds and cracks

Where it gathers

Where it drips

At such an unusual time

Your condition presents

Your ambition I dare say

Is coming to fruition

Unusual timing

Better to retreat in the face of

Such attrition

Or compromise

You're in no condition

For such ambition

It stings my eyes

However this situation is fluid

An unusual condition

This time and place

This newborn ambition

Presenting

By: Daniel Smallegange

It's neat ArtBar @ Clinton's in Toronto Posted a Pic of Us Open Mic Readers

I think I found my soul mate and it's a hat

 

Horticultural Power Bro 7 minute short written and performed by Dan Smallegange, edited by @thisisblisstopia or @blisstopiaprods

Happy Halloween from Me and My Date. (Pic from a sci-fi show I worked on as prop buyer called Defiance.)

 

Spoiled Lizard Children. Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

Failure to Act

Who would have thought

Failure to act

To do a thing

Would fill one with

Such a sense

Satisfaction

Failure to act

To resist the lure

Of long time habit

Resistance of an action

Who would have thought

This could engender

A kind of happiness

Failure to act

By: Daniel Smallegange

All this and... Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

Like a Fist Strike to the Jaw

 Last and first and in between

Always there and far from here

Never forgetting seldom seen

You cannot come or intervene

There and near and far from clear

Send me somewhere far from here

First and last and in between

I cannot run I cannot scream

You will not aid or intervene

Cancel fear or breach the scene

I cannot seem to find the thought

All this hope is over wrought

Last and far and near from naught

Your sense of self you are self taught

No matter who becomes distraught

So far from me how can it be

A glance from you I cannot see

Like a fist strike to the jaw

Turmoil in a glass

Chilled like revenge

Coarse like first love

Pinned down

Like an insect in a box

Caught like a fist in the jaw

By: Daniel Smallegange

Cat on orange and purple edging, by Dan Smallegange

 

Cat Purrs: Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

Acquisition Madame

 You are talent

Said the Acquisition Madame

But you can't be in love

As when so afflicted 

You make bad poetry and awkward movements in general

Please shake free of it like the dogs when watered

And remove this break to your talent throttle Sir or

I can't use you at all

Or even one bit

As you no longer equal

Talent

When so afflicted with this disease and detriment

You become lesser-than

Like a sideways V pointing west

And my purpose and profession is that acquisition called

Talent

It says it right there on the door stenciled nicely

As everyone and even you can read

When perambulating through it to this here office desk which you sit

Parameters being what they be

Talent being that

Which I seek

So please fall out of said cause and or affliction

Forthwith

Said the Acquisition Madame

By: Daniel Smallegange

It Smarts It Hurts

 It smarts it hurts

It's like a regular

Relationship now

It comes at you like a long downhill run in an auto with

Impeded break function it does

It hurts and smarts

And is unrelenting which is irksome to all of my

Auras and chakras and lines of ley

Like a dream in which you cannot

Beat adversaries down or cause them damage or defeat

Like a dream when you are unprepared for the test or task and tremble

Coming at you now rolling growing in a wave

Coming your way with such fierce and unrequested candor

A furor and a stir

A proper mind fuck

It smarts it hurts

It smarts it hurts

It's like a regular

Companionship now

A part and parcel of my headspace now

It comes intermittent but not to be missed

It comes all ill humour and rancor taste with bitter kiss

It hurts it smarts

This here foil

Comradeship here now

It smarts it hurts

By: Daniel Smallegange

Stretching is Important Before any Hardcore Bro Intense Gardening #HorticulturalPowerBro

 Horticultural Power Bro hosts Horticultural Power Hour w Horticultural Power Bro

Cats: Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

Horticultural Power Bro ep 2 intro, my new comedy thinger

 

Fish Bros. Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

Our Hearts So Bound

 In the throes of heated things

Through the groans of displaced dreams

You come into the dappled light

You take my breath and blur my sight

I can only gasp and sigh

So long it's been

Since we cast the die

That lead us down this sorry road

We've long since lost our moral code

It's cost so much in blood and treasure

Ours sins run deep

One cannot measure

And yet you take my breath away

The same back then and to this day

You twirl around and take a bow

My heart it burns and then I vow

To make it all be worth the cost

This road we've run

This long way travelled

Through so many hopes unraveled

Our hearts so bound with vows and curses

And all the counters and reverses

Blood on our hands we can wash away

Through the birth of a new day

By: Daniel Smallegange

Gardening Ninja Moves from Horticultural Power Bro

 

My First Acting Gig, I Dug up... Haagan Dazs baby.

 

It was only shown in the UK and Ireland, maybe S. Africa. I dug up as doing Some New Comedy Stuff. Stay Tuned! Horticultural Power Bro!!!

Horticultural Power Hour w Horticultural Power Bro on the Youtubes.

 Horticultural Power Hour w Horticultural Power Bro - YouTube

Run of Song

You must follow the run of song

No matter the consequence pending

Nor the dire threat of result

Come along and

Follow the consequence

Impetus of songwaves

Impetuous motions gyrations are

Approved

This comes from the highest authority

At least seven feet in height anyways

And leaning from above

Follow the run of song

Rings the shout

No matter right or wrong

Move along to the run

To the soundwaves and strive

Impetuous

Follow the run

The pattern and run

Of song

By: Daniel Smallegange

Happy Valentine's Day from Zombie Dan!

 This is from a photo shoot a little while back by the epically awesome Blake Morrow. I am a zombie on the left.

I am Proud to Have Worked on Nightmare Alley as the Props Buyer

Proud to have worked on this one as the Prop Buyer. Props, Sets, Greens, Construction, Paint and Art dept all fall under the Production Design category. Congratulations to the woman in charge of all that, the Production Designer Tamara Deverell.