On this, my 'professional' blog, I usually try to avoid posting the frivolous self-gratifying fan art which fills up most of my sketchbook. But the thing of which I have been most proud, recently, is the most frivolous and self-gratifying of them all, and deeply dorky besides.
The song is to the tune of The Legionnaire's Lament by The Decemberists.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3VtG43-lHaE/TF-QVC87bkI/AAAAAAAAB7M/31hG29AzDzM/08-2010_legionnaire1_sm.jpg)
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3VtG43-lHaE/TF-QVHcTbQI/AAAAAAAAB7Q/hLzVSqu1p1g/08-2010_legionnaire2_bw.jpg)
![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-lhrYJMJle4s/TY5Jb2mAmFI/AAAAAAAACUE/fWnWubom8Xg/s800/08-2010_legionnaire3.jpg)
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If the ghost of Titus Oates comes and burns a spectral blubber stove in my living room, it's no more than I deserve.
The song is to the tune of The Legionnaire's Lament by The Decemberists.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3VtG43-lHaE/TF-QVC87bkI/AAAAAAAAB7M/31hG29AzDzM/08-2010_legionnaire1_sm.jpg)
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3VtG43-lHaE/TF-QVHcTbQI/AAAAAAAAB7Q/hLzVSqu1p1g/08-2010_legionnaire2_bw.jpg)
![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-lhrYJMJle4s/TY5Jb2mAmFI/AAAAAAAACUE/fWnWubom8Xg/s800/08-2010_legionnaire3.jpg)
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3VtG43-lHaE/TF-QVYK02II/AAAAAAAAB7Y/lBkAkDLAi_8/08-2010_legionnaire5_bw.jpg)
If the ghost of Titus Oates comes and burns a spectral blubber stove in my living room, it's no more than I deserve.