MEET RYAN LOISELLE >>>

No better time to gaze at a skunk then after the Dow dropped 600 points. Apparently Amocat Café in Tacoma has local artist Ryan Loiselle's Tacoma skunk decals in stock – in a wide range of colors – for $6 a pop.

Who is Ryan Loiselle?

Daniel Blue profiled him in July 2008 as part of the Tacoma Files series that ran on this blog:

Ryan Loiselle moved to Tacoma in 1989 and quickly dug in his heels like a stubborn mountain goat. The kind of mountain goat that has a face shaped like a pentagram - yes that kind. I don't know if Ryan ever played Dungeons and Dragons, but if he did his character would be a black wizard.

An artist and a scholar, Ryan works for the Tacoma Public School District and creates strange and wonderful artwork in many mediums, such as paint, graphics, music, beer and film.

Ryan is friendly and honest. He loves the humanity of humanity, and the fragility of sanity.

Recently he was at the Urban Art Festival riding around on the tallest bicycle I have seen since Bellingham. I mean tall here, like if you fell you would die.

Thanks for all the danger, Ryan, in the words of Batman's for the Joker, "This town needs an enema."  I wish you were my sixth-grade teacher, but I was home schooled so that's kind of like saying I wish you were my mom.