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Normal History Vol. 320: The Art Of David Lester

Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 31-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.

Martin Lewis pulled his old school bus into a parking spot a block away from The Black Dot Museum of Political Art and switched off the engine. He sat there looking straight ahead, listening to the sound of rain falling on the length of the metal roof—a sound he found vaguely annoying.

Am I ever going to see a sunny day in this city?” he said out loud, trying to recall a single trip to Vancouver when he’d been able to get errands done without having to deal with the rain. It was only 9:30 a.m., and he already felt like it had been a long day. He yawned loudly, stretched and scratched his head all at the same time. Maybe I should take a little nap, he thought to himself. But a nap will throw things off schedule.

[to be continued]

“Man Thinks Woman” from Jarred Up (K, 1993) (download):