Running into Robot Johnny Down South

Before Wendy’s friend Liz took us to Mama Dip’s for some good ol’ unhealthy-but-yummy southern cookin’, she took us to Carr Mill in nearby Carrboro. Carr Mill is a mill that’s been converted into a shopping centre for offbeat and “alternative” shops. One of the shops in Carr Mill that we visited was Wootini, which seems to be Carrboro’s answer to the Magic Pony store on Queen Street West here in Accordion City.

I was looking at the art on the walls when I saw a painting I thought I recognized:

“That looks like Robot Johnny’s work,” I thought. I looked at the card beside the painting and saw:

Scary Monsters, Super Creeps
John Martz

“It is Robot Johnny’s work!” I said. “How’d it get down here?”

The answer, it turns out, is in a blog entry from May.

It was preety neat seeing your artwork travel far and wide, John. Maybe you should do your next “fear” piece on chicken fried steak — some people find it scary.