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Thanos needs a hug, not a twin.

Just Asking : Thoughts on Civics, Character and Elections.

You are needed now (the day after Election Day 2016).

We brighten or darken the days of those around.

The agony & the ecstasy of collective bargaining.

Pipsqueaks & popcorn: let fame live upon our brazen tombs.

People who falls.

‘You are a supporting actor on other people's stages.’

Something pretty in the ruins (I will write this well to remember it well).

Acceptable risk.

amblings and ramblings

On top of a mountain with one wife, four kids, three cats, a goat, a dragon, and two billion books.

Young children playing with handmade wood blocks

Make hiker in his 40s trying to look all cool by a lake.

Twins reading newspaper and on typewriter

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Recent podcasts

Mar 16, 2021

This is the Long Version, episode 014 : Micro-musings

Mar 16, 2021

Dec 24, 2020

This is the Long Version, episode 013 : Christmas

Dec 24, 2020

Oct 29, 2020

This is the Long Version, episode 012 : Election

Oct 29, 2020

Gallery of J.X. Long (our 10-year old son’s political cartoons)

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Some Other Stuff

Design : Handbook for Artists

Excerpts from Joseph Long’s “Survival Handbook - a guide for Artists, Explorers, Filmmakers, Fisherpeople, Vegetarians, Storymakers, Magicians, New Guinea, and Harold.”

illustration, graphic design, thoughts on creativity, education

Illustration : 44Rockstars

An ongoing typographic alphabet of musicians and rock stars, as created from bits and pieces of everyday detritus such as food, metal, wood, and flowers.

44rockstars, music, typography

Illustration : This Is It

Illustrations and drawings, mostly about childhood, parenting, music, and observations on life in the 21st century.

illustration, design, children, family

Illustration : Lee is Legend

Illustrations and drawings about my dad, Lee C. Long, from childhood to dadhood, as created with my five-year old daughter.

illustration, design, children, family

Illustration : Warriors and their pets

An illustrated series of famous warriors and their pets, including Athena, Saladin, Leonidas, Harold II, Joan of Arc, Achilles, Joshua, Hannibal, the Amazons, Hercules, Richard the Lionhearted, Thor, Genghis Khan, Odin, Alexander the Great, and King Arthur.

illustration, design, warriors, pets, heroes, history

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