G U S H E R !

What does Gusher mean? Well, I dunno. These graphics are a perfect example of the visualization of a word. Tommy J. was nothing more than a vague concept when the word "gusher" popped into my head. This surrealist was watching the skateboarders on Elliewood Avenue from a third floor studio window when she had a vision of TJ on a skateboard with what else, a frog. Froggie is not impressed or amused which is ironic inasmuch as Froggie IS the muse.

ANECDOTE: One fine Spring day some years ago, a young surrealist braved the trite "Deadman's Hill" on her skateboard. She was scantilly clad in a bikini, those being the days before guards and helmets, or even clothes. The road was lined with onlookers cheering madly for her. She conquered the hill that day and in her exuberance, instead of walking away in all her glory, she responded to the hails from the crowd by returning to the top of the hill for a second run. The ambulance EMT was not sympathetic and the nurse scraping the gravel (she got most of it) from her back was not gentle.

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