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My name is Erik Mallinson. I draw pictures, make music, and some other stuff. I like playing the ‘ukulele, riding my scooter around Boston, and playing board games.
Follow me on Twitter (@erima) if you’re into that sort of thing. You might also check out my illustration and music studio (@gravel).
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Jan28

25 Random Things About Me

  1. I was born outside Buffalo, NY.
  2. I’m adopted.
  3. I’m an aspiring minimalist. Aspiring meaning I am a slob but want to repent.
  4. I started playing piano when I was 9.
  5. I don’t like clothes that advertise.
  6. I usually get totally obsessed with things, then lose interest in them entirely, like a mosquito.
  7. I apparently have a thing for irish-italian girls who took gymnastics and dance and went to catholic school, as that is representative of almost every girl I’ve dated.
  8. The more houseplants the merrier.
  9. I wasn’t a vegetarian until I lived with Alissa for years and felt stupid about only eating meat when we ate out. Then I read the Buddha Graphic Novels and realized that in our society I don’t need to kill animals to survive, so what’s the point? I do feel bad for the plants though.
  10. I make an awesome pizza.
  11. I do “Fall Studies” each September where I pick something to obsess about officially. Last Fall was Pizza. It was supposed to be learning the clarinet but I need new pads.
  12. The Fall before that was Ruby programming @ Harvard. I flunked but went to all the classes.
  13. I am horrible at budgeting money.
  14. I am in the process of getting braces for the first time ever.
  15. The winter climate is slowly getting on my nerves.
  16. I think being a writer or artist is a key to any door you want to open.
  17. I hate when people complain it’s too hot in the summer and then complain it’s too cold in the winter.
  18. Using an all Mac computer environment has made me much happier on a daily basis.
  19. I’m hardcore into DIY. I even wrote a song about it called “Make everything you can.”
  20. I spent many years tormenting Alissa using incorrect ellipsis..
  21. I’m doing this in part because I want to clog Jarrod’s inbox with more stupid spam memes.
  22. This is the first spam meme I think I’ve participated in, and planned to before #21.
  23. I’m learning to play Go. I’m obsessing over it, though anything that is 4000 years old and still played has a lot of material to work with.
  24. I just started opening paper mail after something like a two year haitus.
  25. I am still interested in the basic stuff I was interested in when I was 12: drawing, music, comic books, writing, playing games.

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