But the chocolate almonds were delicious, and the company was delightful. Thanks for carving out some time in your PDX schedule, literaticat, and it was great to meet you, lkmadigan!
Archives for July 2008
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I commend you for having sidewalks upon which I can ride my bicycle, thus avoiding the scarier traffic on the busier thoroughfares, such as the Avenue of Roses. However, I must regretfully also mention that curb cuts are present only inconsistently, and that this, while inconvenient and slightly painful for a timid cyclist, is absolutely [...]
I was remiss in not reminding San Diego attendees to cheer for him, too. Yay for Reading Comics, winner of the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book! Entirely unrelated aside: The cat just sneezed six times in a row. Do you suppose it means something? Okay, so the reason I didn’t go to San [...]
Hey all — if you’re in San Diego for Comic-Con, and you visit Steve Lieber’s table in Artist’s Alley, GG-14, you can find my books and comics. And stickers and buttons, even! I am sorry that I’m not there, but it means, I hope, that I will have new stuff at least slightly sooner. Other [...]
I got my braces off. The dental assistant offered me the plaster casts of my teeth that they used to fit me for my retainers. “As, you know, a memento. You have a nice bite.” “Oh, yeah!” I enthused. “It’s kinda like owning my own skull!” But her ghoulishness wasn’t equal to mine. “Not very [...]
The best one today: “Teenage Girl Obviously Having Affair With Bat.” Obviously. I am sorry that I am only writing about spam. I am fighting a cold and trying to get things done and neither of these things are conducive to scintillating blog entries. But I will make one more spam observation. I get two [...]
“Crafting tractable cohesive contender.” I’m trying, comment spammers, I’m trying.
Robots. Also, monsters. Joe Alterio’s genius project: robots and/or monsters, designed based on three words. Here is Kingbot, aka typing, music, defenestration: Nigel-Bramsford-2.0, aka outgoing, Victorian, bicycle: Tubble — hedgehog, rumbly, tricky: You owe it to yourself to see the whole set.
Four not terribly related things: See what YA authors look like with our mouths open: a set of photos from the YA Author Coffee Klatch (which was super fun) is up. Here’s one: I forget what I was explaining, but I look pretty intent about it. Lovely hummus treatise by the equally lovely Hanne Blank. [...]
Skim. I just discovered this graphic novel at Floating World. Read this Sequential Art interview to find out more about creators Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (they’re cousins). You can download a PDF preview from Jillian’s site. I couldn’t decide which I liked more: Mariko’s smart narrative (“You can tell when Lisa’s nervous because she [...]
