The Carnage

[tealin]

This morning, I had a coffee explosion.



If anything, it's an underexaggeration.

And now...


Inspired by the freaking out at the beginning of ... some chapter or another. After Miss Dearheart says "Last month was 'the old days'?" (I'm probably paraphrasing.) I've had this thumbnail sitting on my desk at work for quite a while...(the thumbnail's always better... I think I need to lift his head more.)
Oddly enough, I hardly even noticed this great opportunity for a drawing the first time through the book. What will I pick up next time? Who will restrain me from making the next time tonight? (Well, dirty dishes and coffee shrapnel, for one...)

9:22 pm
Ubiquitouspitt is AWESOME. Behold.

Drew this for Romanilily:

At least there are no crackers.

Comments

Dishes!

[(Anonymous)]

Good thing you had not done them yet, you would just have to do them again.

Re: Dishes!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

If I had done them, they wouldn't be on the affected side of the sink.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

OOHH DUDE! The same thing happened to me, back in 2000. I'm an avid fan of Cuban Espresso, which is just like regular espresso, except that the froth is made by whipping a few teaspoons of sugar together with the first few drops of percolation from the espresso maker (mine's a classic stovetop).

Anyhow, back then I was using my grandmother's dime-store cheap one because my then boyfriend had taken my good one to Pittsburgh for college. And just when I was whipping the froth to a perfect peak, BANG! There's still coffee splattered all over my kitchen's cathedral cieling! I got some nasty second-degree burns to the skin around my navel, too! Not fun! The diagnosis was that the "valve was plugged"....whatever that meant. :-|

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I'm glad to know I'm not alone. Yup, it was my stovetop percolator, and I think it was because I was too groggy to remember to put in the filter piece but to the best of my deduction surely that would just end up with grounds in the brew...? Anyway, lucky for me it didn't get my skin, and there had been hardly any hot brewed stuff in the ... top thingy ... so it was just an extremely cartoony SCHPLAT all over everything.

[bananabasket.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear.

[eggo-waffles.livejournal.com]

Wow. Talk about a wake-up call.
Can't imagine anything more graphic than your underexaggerated illustration... that must have been one hell of an explosion!

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

Ack, that must've sucked. :( I'm sorry!

Although I do love your drawing of it so I suppose I'm somewhat grateful? xD;

[brendanm720.livejournal.com]

Are you okay?

[jamiegoucher.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! That's almost as bad as my grilled cheese sandwich accident! LOL!!!

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

....WHOA! How the dickens did THAT happen? ... but that drawing is really, really cool.

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

Holy... oil lamps and coffee perculators? TEALIN. The 21st century is your friend, for heaven's sake... take a hint!! *covers face*

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

The plug-in ones are too complicated. You have to sit there and watch them and flip the milk steamer thingy at such-and-such perscribed time, and find counter space for them, and all that jazz. I can take mine camping – assuming I ever actually go camping, as much as I'd like to. It's easy to clean. It's transportable. It doesn't have any wires or fiddly bits. It was from Ikea.

AND my oil lamp came in very handy during the recent four-hour power outage. So there!

SUE!

[(Anonymous)]

Check the coffeemaker for poorly manufactured parts. If you find one, that would be grounds for a lawsuit.

[black-nightess.livejournal.com]

omg u ok? how could u have a coffee explosion. but i supose if i can set fire to a grilled sandwich in da griller, u can have a coffee explosion! lol