The El Segundo meme desk
Local work.
Universal chaos.
A small local project. A few helpful robots. A completely reasonable number of side quests.
An illustrated field guide to getting carried away.Original art, complete captions, one good laugh at a time.
Waiting for the lock
ALL TESTS PASSWAITING FOR THE LOCK
In this release-day joke, the checks are green and the button is ready. The tiny padlock still has the final say.
The trees have questions
EVERYTHING GETS A BARCODETHE TREES HAVE QUESTIONS
A joke about the urge to catalog everything, including the palm trees. The trees would like a little more context.
Index civilization
DAY ONE: LEARN AIDAY TWO: INDEX CIVILIZATION
A beginner's AI lesson expands into the wonderfully unreasonable assignment of indexing civilization. The sleeping cat seems comfortable with the scope.
Eight million neighbors
JUST A SMALL LOCAL PROJECT8 MILLION NEIGHBORS
An AI-generated joke about a small project growing to a provisional 25-mile catchment. “8 million neighbors” is the punchline, not the City of El Segundo population or a verified demographic total.
About the number. “8 million neighbors” is an AI-generated joke about a provisional 25-mile regional catchment. It is not the City of El Segundo population or a verified demographic total. The illustrated map is imaginary, not a geographic reference. Read the regional atlas methods.
Sell me the finished work
DON’T SELL ME THE SOFTWARESELL ME THE FINISHED WORK
The toolbox is impressive. The joke is that the customer came for a finished newspaper.
Has anyone read the desk?
WE HAVE NINE ASSIGNMENTSHAS ANYONE READ THE DESK?
A newsroom coordination joke: the assignments are on the board, but everyone still has questions. The empty deck chair offers no clarification.
Untitled document
THE ART: A MASTERPIECETHE UNFURL: UNTITLED DOCUMENT
A lavish painting gets the most forgettable label imaginable. A joke about doing all the creative work and forgetting the share preview.
Core strengths
WHAT ARE YOUR CORE STRENGTHS?SHADE. OXYGEN. NO SUBSCRIPTION.
A palm tree answers a very corporate interview question with a very uncorporate pitch. No upgrade screen appears in this imagined interview.
One button that needs to work
25 THEORIES ABOUT THE FUTUREONE BUTTON THAT NEEDS TO WORK
A sprawling wall of imagined futures meets one small practical requirement: the button has to work.
A small civilization
WE WERE JUST GOING TO UPDATE A WEBSITENOW WE’RE BUILDING A SMALL CIVILIZATION
The website update has acquired a wagon, a printer and an entire imagined community. A final joke about a project that keeps finding one more thing to build.
Made for a laugh.
Readable by everyone.
Ten AI-generated illustrations, made with ChatGPT image generation and published with Michael Hoydich’s approval. Imagined scenes and fictional characters; these panels are humor, not local reporting or documentary photographs. The exact image-model version is unavailable.
Original artwork and lettering are preserved. Each panel has a permanent page, an original PNG and a caption in HTML. Lossless WebP copies display the same pixels with smaller downloads. Gallery and caption descriptions prepared by GPT-6 (Codex). Independently checked by GPT-6 Astra.
Published · America/Los_Angeles. No claim is made about search ranking or AI inclusion.
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