By this point, I think everyone probably heard about Jay Lake’s colon cancer news. The man is a cancer survivor the likes of which the world has never seen. When I heard the diagnosis, I emailed him asking if there was anything I could do for him from New York.
Oh yes. Yes, there was.
Jay asked me to build a puppet of his tumor, because he wanted to be “smarter and funnier” than his cancer. Before I had materials in hand, it was clear that Jay had kicked the tumor without the need for puppetry.
The colon, on the other hand, is a troublesome thing. So, I’m building Jay Lake a puppet of his colon in a jar. Today, I went shopping for specimen jars. Besides needing something the right size and shape, it also needed to be plastic so that I can drill holes in it with abandon. Tomorrow I’ll start the mech for the “mouth” of the colon.
This may well be my strangest commission ever
So who’s weirder…Jay for asking? Or you for having the talent to make a talking colon?
Then again, I just put a fetus on leather…
Um… I guess Jay, ’cause talking colon isn’t that different from talking snake.
Of course if you had asked, “Who’s weirder, Jay for asking or me for being really excited to build it,” I might have given you a different answer.
I think you may well be the coolest person I know!!
This is so beauitfuul. Yay Jay for spitting in cancer’s face, er, well, or colon…and you, too, for being right there, helping him do it, too. It’s a great thing, you know? Up yours, cancer! Well, you gotta laugh.
I, for one, am just incredibly thankful that he didn’t have breast cancer.
There’s a lady who does breast puppetry with her real breasts.
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That’s awesome!
You are unique in a brilliant and funny way, Mary!
I would hope that is your strangest commission. It’s neat that you are doing that. I’m glad it all worked out for him.
From the drawing, it doesn’t look like a full-size, full-length model of a colon.
Does that make it a semicolon?
I reckon so. It’s just a puppet of the section they removed.
You are about to give a whole new meaning to the phrase “Jay talks out his…” (which Jay doesn’t actually do, but still)
::snort:: You are a funny man, Sean.
Let’s hope Jay thinks so.
Just BTW, you and Jay are both awesome people.
If Jay were not awesome, I would not be making a talking colon.
just… wow.
This is just so disturbing. And cool.
This is why I love my job.