It’s a funny building, this. I have drawn it before of course, but I like this one a lot. The G Street sign being the only bit of colour reminds you that this is downtown and not in some enchanted glade in the Black Forest. I have never been in there (Bubble Belly, I think they do baby clothes) but it’s such an unusually shaped building. I stood outside Jack in the Box to draw it. It was that time of the month that was still really hot. Now things are finally cooling off (it’s 81 degrees today, which for us is positively autumnal), and it’s nearly Halloween for which I will not be dressing up. I never do. I like the spooky decorations everywhere though. I’ve often thought that in the spirit of the spooky season it would be funny to write in the letters “HO” in between “G” and “ST”. We could go further along the spooky sign changes: add “EA” on the B Street signs, “ORE” on the F Street signs, or “POOKIE” on the S Street signs. Or to be completely non-scary and a bit pointless, “RMRE” on the A Street signs. Or maybe add “HRI” on the C Street signs, maybe followed by “MAS” to keep it holiday themed, as they say. You get the idea. I always liked the end credits of the Simpsons when they would do the Treehouse of Horror specials and change the names of the cast and crew to silly scary versions. It’s something a lot of people do now. I’m Pete Scary at this time of year. Or Pete Skully. I was trying to Halloween-ize the F1 drivers names in the US Grand Prix last weekend, with your Pierre Ghastly, Lance Troll, O-scare Piastri, Jaws Russell, that sort of thing. I don;t know, I find it hard to get into Halloween as much any more. There was that one year where I went a bit crazy drawing loads of Halloween stuff, decorating our whole whole with hand-drawn Halloween decorations, and we had a fun party for the kids from my son’s pre-school with these really detailed invitations, I was so into drawing bats and spiders and vampires. I suppose it’s just in the past now. Some of our neighbours go all out with the Halloween stuff, with so much stuff. We will probably carve pumpkins, though I prefer to paint on them now, they don’t go mouldy so quickly, and it’s a lot easier. Anyway, this building looks like it could be a witch’s cottage in the forest, but it’s not, it’s just a clothes shop on G Street. Or maybe that’s what the witches want us to think…