Reply #15: Gawd. In 5th grade I painted a clown that freaked my teacher out. She called my mom... [View All]

[Hekate]

... to complain about the eyes I had drawn into the clown's buttons. Apparently that seemed like the sign of a disturbed mind to her. My mother told her there were a lot of art books around the house, including one of Salvador Dali -- of whom the teacher had never heard. Mom thought she was a moron, but never told me about this until years later. :rofl:

At least Mrs D didn't call the freaking cops.

As for Jordan's scary picture: every grade-school boy I've ever known in my life has drawn similar pictures -- air battles, Godzilla, gore -- they seem to just love that stuff. Most of them eventually grow out of it.

Hekate