For Valentine’s Day, my lovely Laura gave me something I’ve always wanted – a Nohohon Zoku. Nohohon Zoku (which literally means “carefree clan”) are adorable little round-headed things with contagious smiles and heads that nod gently back and forth, completely void of any worry or stress. My Nohohon Zoku is a pale orange “Carrot Type” from the “Vegetable Seven” line; he sits on my desk at work and I find him pleasantly hypnotic and irresistibly cheerful. He brightens even the gloomiest and most boring of wintry workdays. He’s like a bouncy little rocksteady beat in paperweight form.
In fact, my Nohohon Zoku has been such a positive influence on my daily life that it has inspired a new cartoon. The words in the following strip were copied almost verbatim from text messages I sent to Laura last week, and I rendered the art in the style of America’s most beloved and neurotic cartoonist (besides me.)
He has tiny little New Balances!
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I think this entry has made me love you even more. You are a cute peanut!
PS: I can’t read the title of the strip, What is it?
Ha! You’re on a hot streak with excellent blog postings lately.
The art teacher at my school keeps a desk lamp on all day to activate her Nohohon Zoku.
What other vegetables does he come in?
You got it wrong. Cathy doesn’t say “aauugh!”, she says “ack!”. -X
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thanks so much, had the same problem! btw great site (i love the design!)