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March 2010
- More tips on writing comics: what artists wish you wouldn’t do, part two
- More tips on writing comics: what artists wish you wouldn’t do, part one
- Getting a robot to make you a sandwich and other tips for writing comics
- Poetic spam, etc.
February 2010
- In praise of binge-viewing for writers
- New What A Girl Wants post is up, and here’s my response to #10
- Full disclosure
- I did not expect to be writing an identity-related post tonight
- I love this bit from Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City
- Earbrass vs. GoshWow
- Hat Tricks
- Hey, I’m gonna be on the radio.
January 2010
- Slight, but slightly too long for a status update
- Photo post
- It is already almost February.
- A few bits of Boston street art
- Boston Gothic
- Sub-optimal feline storage
- Couch
- Twenty Ten
December 2009
- Some balancing acts I’m thinking about at the end of the year and decade
- Salvaging cooking fail
- Hey remember how I went to France?
- Early experimentation with the graphic format
- A few links I would have tweeted if I were tweeting this month
- What A Girl Wants: Repost of my response to #8, and new post is up!
November 2009
- In which I am both more and less available
- Exceptions
- Usual Undisclosed
- Tom Waits, Kool Keith, and Fluorescent Hill
- Why did you do that to your characters? Spoiler warning.
- Appearance: Lake Oswego Library, Tuesday 11/17 @ 7 pm
- Eleven thirteen
- Okay, since PW is talking about it, I guess I can too
- Latest acquisitions
- Rainy Saturday
- Repost: What A Girl Wants #7: Because we are not all rich girls. Also: WAGW #9 is up!
- Some travel reflections
October 2009
- Tonight I was going to write a long France post
- Okay so here are a few pictures from France
- Down time
- Repost: What A Girl Wants #6: Loving a bloodsucker. Also: WAGW #8 is up!
- Rules for Hearts podcast continues: Act II, scene iv
- Upcoming! (aka: OMG it’s October already.)
September 2009
- One block over
- Like riding a bicycle
- (Belated) What A Girl Wants #5 repost
- Surveillance photo of the cat
- Is “recursive” the word I’m looking for?
- Small trades
- Some things I learned from our Hollywood adventure
- Some things I saw at the Getty
- Surreal
- Against the new.
August 2009
- #Snagfail
- Advise me about my upcoming conference talk, Internet friends
- Saying no and saying yes
- Tiger, tiger
- Agonizing, organizing
- Short takes: I’ve been reading/listening
- What A Girl Wants #4: repost
- Photo post
- Objective significance
July 2009
- What A Girl Wants #3: Belated repost (not a remix this time)
- Photo post
- In which I am a tease
- On not wanting to miss it.
- What A Girl Wants #4 is up
- Four things that shocked me when I learned of their existence.
- Photo post
- Why yes, I am going to Chicago.
- Significant Objects…
- How to write a sex scene
- How far do you live from writing?
June 2009
- Photo post
- What A Girl Wants #2: extended disco remix
- Scraps
- What A Girl Wants #2 is up
- Post-Father’s Day
- Public Service Announcements.
- Cynical optimism, or vice versa.
- Rules for Hearts podcast, part five
- Proof.
- What A Girl Wants #1 — extended disco remix
- Quickly now
- The Order of Odd-Fish by James Kennedy
- Rules for Hearts podcast continues
- What A Girl Wants
- Photo post
May 2009
- By popular demand: the Rules for Hearts podcast returns!
- Two abandoned rooms…
- Mine eyes have seen
- Revenge of the sub-optimal feline storage series
- Pelecanos at Powell’s
- The necessity of habituation
- Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop by Kate Wilhelm
- Sub-optimal feline storage series
- Bidding for Bridget
- John Linkqvist on horror
- Feeling like a writer
- Workspace
- This is not going to morph into a political blog
April 2009
- Flytrap #4: Performance Anxiety now readable and orderable online!
- Photo post
- The Order of Myths
- Book tour report!
- Stumptown ‘09: lovely as always
- Stumptown Countdown, etc.
- Books That Built Me: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Off the grid, under the radar
- In which I am obsessed with old group photos
- Interview with Katie Lane of Work Made For Hire
- Emerald City ‘09 haikus
- Movin’ right along
March 2009
- The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
- Estate sale photos
- Hey, in case you didn’t catch me
- In which I am obsessed with driftwood
- Haiku meme
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Interview with Liz Funk
- Going places, doing things
- Author discovery: Theresa Rebeck
- SCBWI Oregon Author/Illustrator Gala
- Photo post
- Sub-optimal feline storage series continued
- Punk list for Miss Cecil!
- The great thing about writing advice
- More writing advice
February 2009
- Dreams from my president
- Snag knocks stuff over
- Gym philosophy
- Books That Built Me: archy and mehitabel by Don Marquis
- The times, signs of
- Dystopian future, early eighties edition
- Double-tracking, a small example
- This might be my new favorite recipe
- New interview up
- Photo post
- Tonight! Live! I am on the Erika Moen show.
- Truth-telling
January 2009
- In the meme 2525
- Hey, I’m downloadable!
- “The ‘teenager’ seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.” — Edgar Z. Friedenberg
- You already know this
- Another inauguration
- Red balloons
- Day-making
- Mishmash
- On the power of anthems and projection
- Grocery confidential
- “Take to the Sky” behind-the-comic
- Conclusions and the avoidance of leaping to them
- Rules is out in paperback
- Publishing, or not, for teen writers
- Not a profound New Year entry
- Fast away the old year passes
December 2008
- More entries in the sub-optimal feline storage series
- Writing and risk, redux
- Obligatory OMGSNOW photos
- The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. — Robertson Davies
- Misconceptions and ideas
- Balancing, juggling, maintaining
- Lackluster
- In lieu of a long post, a podcast interview and a review
- Continuity, comics, prose, etc.
- Two brilliant and beautiful posts you should read
- Help me hive mind
- A few more photos
- Ambushes
November 2008
- Moody fall photos
- Thanksgiving 2008
- Flytrap #4 is coming
- Dad zine excerpt: “The man who reads dictionaries”
- Optimal feline storage
- And somehow it got to be past the middle of November
- November roses
- Book awards photos, as promised
- Some things on the Internets that you should know about
- The letters “OBA” are so auspicious
- Hi, may I geek out at you?
- Heads up Portland: Wordstock is this weekend
- Exhaling
- Just in case
- Halloween aftermath
- Disclosing, a little
October 2008
- GSA giveaway update: all the copies are spoken for!
- Assorted trivia and a reminder.
- Mountain Goats redux: cheerier this time
- This Year
- L.M. Montgomery, the books/life disconnect, and blogs
- Three-part cat story
- Friday Five
- Rules for Hearts giveaway for gay-straight alliances
- Three quick things
- Entropy resistance
- Cat photo Friday (give or take a couple hours)
- For Caitlin in Australia: Comics or books?
- Misreading of the day
September 2008
- Interview up at Hollywood the Write Way
- KidLit 08 and the New Minders of Make-Believe
- Very quick post from KidLit 08
- Photo post
- Upcoming!
- TechGnosis: myth, magic, and mysticism in the Age of Information
- Meme Friday
- Sub-optimal feline storage re-redux
- No Country for Old Spooks
- The ambiguous messages of the street
- Yet more bicycle euphoria
- This is just to say
- Good news Monday
- Photo post
- My dad the zinester (and proto-blogger)
- Not always on
- Note to self
August 2008
- The lure of presumed autobiography
- Linkblogging
- Photo post
- Books That Built Me: Emily of New Moon series by L.M. Montgomery
- Sub-optimal feline storage redux
- Another bike-related post (Soon I will stop, I promise.)
- Convalescence, commuting, congratulations
- Photo post
- Writing and risk
- More retreat photos
- Posting from retreat
July 2008
- Disturbing cow creamer is disturbing
- Dear City of Portland
- Congratulations Douglas!
- San Diego — I’m not there but my books and comics are!
- Nice Bite.
- Spam again
- Spam fortune
- Robots and Monsters
- Various
- Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
- Your own snakes
- Recipe for a nearly perfect evening
- Thrifting, estate sale
- Ellen Kushner comic, Nicola Griffith essay, Speakeasy, etc.
- I might have more to say about Anaheim
- Anaheim
June 2008
- Two hats in Anaheim
- Shifting the quotidian
- Cemetery visit
- You know it has been too long since you vacuumed when
- Behold, the only Barbie I have wanted in a loooong time
- Personal Days
- Wordle!
- Lynda Barry meme
- For Father’s Day: “let us begin,” Bandwagon number eight, january 1961
- Lycanthrophilia
- Best of LCD: the art and writing of WFMU-FM 91.1
- Conceptual art
- Wednesday Is Wombat Day.
- Same as it ever was.
May 2008
- One of these things is not like the others
- Burning questions
- One day at Sasquatch
- Sometimes you can fix something by just playing a song.
- Trying to step up
- It was a real search
- Sunday. Darnielle.
- Friday Five
- Emerald City Comic Con 08: Five Seven Five
- Man alive, people.
- Songs of Innocence and Experience
April 2008
- Maintenance
- Stumptown 2008
- Dubious Taste Friday
- Stumptown! Comic Book Tattoo! All comics all the time!
- Teen Book Fest photos!
- Estate sale photos
- I was looking for an August Sander photo
- The drop and the rocking thereof
- The Dancer
- Seasonal Affective Order.
- A return to frivolity
- You’d like to think
- ‘Tis the season
- More on the Teen Book Fest
- Shoutout to Emi, Anna and Sarah
- At the same hotel where the Teen Book Fest authors are staying…
- Ineffective behavior modification.
- Rochester Teen Book Fest…
March 2008
- Story starter.
- In which I am interviewed by an eighth grader. :)
- Richard Price at Powell’s, 3/24
- Books That Built Me: Pogo and other Walt Kelly books
- Bits, pieces, things, stuff
- Cat photo Sunday.
- Decadent Fashion Friday, redux.
- Re-entry.
- No, really.
- Two pictures
- Distance
- Four out of five
- 1930-2008
February 2008
- I hope this will actually be a few Wondercon thoughts
- Various
- Fan disservice: there's a great discussion…
- Heads up SF! I am going to WonderCon.
- This Riot Life by Veda Hille
- Oracular signs, redux
- Valentine Vignette
- I seem to have written this…
- John Darnielle on craft, politics. Etc.
- Signs, not wonders
- The study of art history is always rewarding
- Writing and publishing questions and answers
- Fashion Zen
- One Mississippi, two Mississippi
- Late-night inadequacy brought on by too much Internet
- Periscope Studio’s new site
January 2008
- Hardcore
- Joseph Conrad tells it like it is
- CD cover meme.
- Total eclipses and fragments
- Tiny update.
- Sub-optimal feline storage, redux
- Books That Built Me: the Inferno by Dante Aligheri, the John Ciardi translation
- If you like The Wire, read Gang Leader For A Day
- …
- Seen in Philadelphia
- You know you’re not really ready to travel when
- The Wire: great interview at The Sound of Young America
- And Now We Are Going To Have A Blog Entry
- January 2nd, 2008
December 2007
- Probably my last post of 2007
- Post #546
- Books That Built Me: Finn Family Moomintroll and other Moomin books
- Gym story
- This, that
- There ought to be a name
- If the writing, librarianship and cartooning don’t work out
- Another kind of coming out
- Wire prequels
- Right, then.
- Briefly noted
November 2007
- Some of this trip’s discoveries
- Paging the runners who read this
- Generic, specific
- Ten things about the Mid-Ohio-Con
- I have invented a new measurement
- ALAN report, finally.
- I decided on the little carryon
- More pre-travel panic, etc.
- Abiding
- Snag, Bunk
- Nice Nick Hornby quote about YA books
- Rules for Hearts podcast continues
- One of those obscure, overly dramatic posts
- On the road again: West Coast, East Coast, Midwest, go!!
October 2007
- Halloween
- Kind of cool, kind of sad
- Carla Speed McNeil, Geoff Ryman
- Friday Five
- Rules for Hearts podcast begins…now.
- Computer-assisted bibliomancy
- Estate sale photo post
- Off
- Non-optimal feline storage
- This post is mostly for Sharyn
- Photo post
- When a trend has gone too far
- Trivia redux: thrift score
- Still odious after all these years
- Literary events, Portland and elsewhere
- Plundering the dead
- Dear Internet, here is a trivial question.
- Drive-by
- Portland 1997/Stumptown 2007
September 2007
- Um. Yeah.
- A few literary-themed links. Also a question for y’all.
- Einbahnstrasse Waltz: a case of successful vampirism
- Celestial navigation
- Retail theory: two vignettes
- Fall, dreams (not falling dreams)
- All the Empress of the World podcasts
- I tried to do that one career meme
- Another “recipe”
- Neighborhood moment
- Vita brevis, ars longa
- Symphony Domestique
- Three things for Friday
- You are now running on reserve battery power.
- Cat photo Thursday
- Site Redesign in Progress
- September song
August 2007
- Decadent Fashion Friday.
- Comics: Not Literature Since 2007
- Twelve things on returning from Ashland
- Those of you who’ve been reading this a while will know what a thrilling discovery it was for me to learn…
- About to be an audience member
- Opposable paws
- I suppose it is telling
- Overheard in PDX
- Revival
- It’s nearly Wednesday.
- On learning bad news via the Internet
- Zine Symposium Sunday yes. Also a Cheese Note.
- Zine Camp Reading/Reception Report!
- Portlanders: Zine camp reading and reception — tonight!
- Panel coverage!
- Odds and ends
- “Click,” illustrated by Dylan Meconis, is up on ComicSpace
July 2007
- Comic-Con Report 2007: Wigless Medusa, etc.
- Drive-by, scattershot con impressions
- It is not real spray paint in the photo
- My Comic Con so far
- I briefly appear startlingly productive as a comics creator
- Cats redux (Comics soon)
- Enough about books. Time for more cat pictures.
- End of an era: Harry Potter’s peers grow up
- Sequels, series, expectations
- And three photos from 2007; detritus and urban decay
- Two directives and an old picture for your amusement
- Then, now, soon
- Distilled to its essence
- Interview, review
- If you just emailed me about doing a radio interview
- On Saturday we went to the dump.
- Heat, and the avoidance of same via blended beverages
- Because everybody’s doing it: my Simpsons avatar
- Brief, unoriginal thoughts on Deadwood
- Hey, I’m in a YALSA Podcast
- STOP TERRIFYING MY CAT, AMERICA
- My current reading material looks like a spam subject line
- A small point of information
June 2007
- Five for fighting (I mean Friday)
- In which I appropriate content
- I might say more about ALA
- From Washington, part two
- From Washington
- Bins
- Booklist review
- New work from old favorites
- About that next airplane I’m getting on, etc.
- Sunday Several
- Yes, even in the heartland
- I can’t believe
- John Crowley on Rosamond Purcell
- Two green chairs
- Found in the basement
- A duck, a disembodied arm, and some German Village inhabitants
May 2007
- Evidence
- Berne bears: idle curiosity
- Status report
- Hey hello hi
- We don’t always keep him in here. Promise.
- Why I love Goodwill, #587
- Fair use
- The importance of local coverage
- A night to remember
- Juxtaposition and Context
- Dear internets, I would like your advice about my cat.
- Coincidence?
- Ill-advised
- Ah, Portland
- Tempting fate?
- Reading report
- You guys know
- Music heard on a neighborhood walk
- Brave! New! Available!
- Thanks for the excellent distractions, everyone
- Friday trivia
- “Drawn into the games and drama…”
April 2007
- Last week’s future
- I’m sorry, Snag
- If you haven’t seen Hot Fuzz yet
- First Portland reading!
- In which I am predictable
- NYMBC!
- From the airport
- Heads up San Francisco!
- And the winner is…
- Housekeeping, in various senses
- Snag blocks access to my author copies
- Catching up, cleaning up
- “Limited finances, fluid sexuality, and complicated relationships”
- Rules and Empress sites
- Rules released, Flytrap #2 reviewed
- It’s a small town after all
- Baked tofu for the listless
- Personal to Cassie in Yakima
- More website notes & questions
- Testing LiveJournal CrossPosting
March 2007
- Emerald City
- Eyes on the ground
- Rules icons
- Empress: I read the whole entire book. Also, website news.
- Trying on the past: warning, fashion-related pseudo-profundity ahead
- Personal to intothebassment
- Best book tour blog post
- Redux
- Rules icons go camping
- Cast, pod
- Reading and Signing: Books Inc. in San Francisco
- Snag update
- Rules icons off leash
- This is to say
- Words don’t always work
- Adjusting to the dark
- Reasons to clean house
- Sweet and sour
- Rules icons on the street
- Thank you, Dan from Medford
- Lucky thirteen podcast
- Rivers and Tides: a few scattershot impressions
- In which I watch documentaries and the Internet
- Overheard at the dentist’s office
February 2007
- Rules icons exploding
- Snag bulletin
- Podcast of heartbreak and despair
- From listeners like…well, me
- A few unrelated observations
- Flytrap: “Deep, too”
- Rules icons reloaded
- The aforementioned separate post
- I’ve been meaning to tell you all
- This is the best car trouble ever!
- I suppose I should be grateful
- The Rules for…icons and stickers
- I didn’t know
- If it’s Monday, there must be a new podcast
- Today at an estate sale I bought
- Gluttons for cinematic punishment
- Continued fixation on LibraryThing, musings on
- Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
- Eye of newt and cast of pod
- A few notes from the weekend
- The photo is deceptive
- I was holding off on posting about this
January 2007
- Cat, podcast
- Thought-provoking
- Full disclosure
- Two days late, but in the iTunes store finally
- James Tiptree, Jr.: the double life of Alice Sheldon
- Too bad
- From Seattle
- A story and an invitation
- Because what the Internet needs
- Podcast P.S.
- New podcast is up
- Website: what do you want to see?
- “Last call” auf deutsch?
- Interesting how
- Postscript
- Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
- If it’s Monday…
- Rosamund Purcell=amazing
- More Flytrap in the works
- Your daily online reads?
- Happy New Year & podcast
December 2006
- Extremely short and utterly frivolous entry
- Post-prandial haiku
- Memery
- Podcast 3 is up, etc.
- “Shares”
- What surprising thing did you learn about yourself in 2006?
- New podcast episode: more Empress of the World
- So the power went out
- A manga of demonic charm
- Getting into the spirit
- Podcastic!
- Okay, this one gets to stay
- Gosh it’s nice to be home.
November 2006
- Podcasting and disturbing seasonal decor
- Kudos to Agony
- What I’m not doing for Thanksgiving
- Indeed, they are a scourge
- Away, away
- Two flavors
- Bus bench double take
- Not about the election
- Right now
- A morning reversal
- accent quiz!
October 2006
- Not, in fact, in Kansas any more
- One of those cryptic disjointed posts
- Personal to a gentleman I overheard professing his love
- Last-minute bulletin for Portlanders: Sean Bieri & Aaron Renier
- Inevitable seasonal query
- OMG, more Tim Seibles!
- This should amuse some of you
- Something else I did not buy at an estate sale
- If you plant this…
- boy! girl!
- More like this?
- Advance and uncorrected
- Okay –
- A yoga studio
- Everything that’s online must converge
- Rectangles and a square
- Earth really is full of things
September 2006
- I’m unreasonably amused by this
- My Wire entanglement
- These are the people in your neighborhood
- House for sale
- Tree shadows, cracked sidewalk
- When it’s half an hour before the coffeeshop is supposed to close
- Sacco, Shire and sunset
- A million-dollar idea that I am bestowing upon the Internet
- Lucky?
- Because I want disturbing dreams
- Locking, unlocking
- Brave New Shoutout
- A few pictures
- Where has it gone, where am I going?
August 2006
- Overheard in PDX
- Portland to Coast
- T-minus five and a half hours
- Sometimes, I forget about the Internet
- For the love of DDR
- Her name is Lilly
- Confederacy
- Unexpected, part two
- Unexpected
- Thanks so much
- Just in case you were wondering
- Things I did not do at retreat
- Answers #6, 7, 8
- Can’t believe it’s been fifteen years
July 2006
- Answer #5
- Answer #4
- Answer #3
- Answer #2
- Answer #1
- The ever-popular question meme
- Two cool links my friend Ron sent
- Black Hole
- Another recently spotted tag of which I am fond
- A few things
- A useful metaphor
- And speaking of books that are awesome
- It’s been a while
- Akron??
- Bechdel/Thompson: Great interview
- Yesterday
- A few more NOLA photos
June 2006
- Blogged
- Gutting a house
- Guessing game answer and pre-travel thoughts
- A guessing game
- Latest favorite tag
- An observation
- Pants surprise!
- Read Fun Home
- Aha!
- Back
May 2006
- Steve did not believe…
- Sunset, also spoilery Empress question
- Less than two hours
- Creativity
- Hey Portlanders
- Cookie fortunes I have saved
- I’m in love
- Small moment of melancholy
- I did not buy this
- Something else to read
April 2006
- A tiny update
- Very very very fine house (books)
- Dear everyone
- Random curiosity
- It occurs to me…
- Two takes*
- Music
- In case you were wondering
- Back from Seattle
March 2006
- Click your heels…
- A Google game
- Plastic horse tragedy
- It must be spring
- A tiny research question
- What do you guys think
- An utterly prosaic tip
- So when you figure out…
- I really like
- Not sayin’, just sayin’
- Can I get an Amen?
- Found in Empress
- Okay, I know that this is a serious issue and everything
- The world’s saddest toy
- Call me obsessed
- Why I love Portland, #567
- The cover
February 2006
- I turned in
- Octavia Butler R.I.P.
- Gratuitous
- Surprising. Also memes.
- Reading in public
- What happens
- The Dumpster
- that day that it is
- I’m remembering
- The Hydra
- Dark horses (not the comics publisher)
- Higher math
- Does this reflect your social circle?
- The dangers
January 2006
- I could not resist
- Even less updating than usual
- I take pictures
- Alas
- Story my cab driver told
- This makes me happy
- Fear of blogs
- Oh, thank goodness
- “He’s a gym teacher. There’s no upward mobility.”
- Message from the universe
- The Rules for Hearts
- For the designers in the house
- Social networking ‘r’ us
- Jokes, double entendres left as an exercise for the readers
- MySpace: yea or nay?
- Random, comics-related
- Love to get in touch
December 2005
- Lunch hour fashion case study
- Spam subject line of the day
- Memes: the last refuge of a scoundrel
- Directive
- I saw Santa…
- PacMan, live
- Graham Joyce addendum
- My increasing Graham Joyce fixation
- Origin unknown
- Noted without comment
- Dear the Academy
- The benefit of a broken iPod
- Unexpected
- I’ve just discovered
- Our luggage got home the day after we did
- Another geeky entry
- Still mucking around with embedding
- Chain of associations
- Everyone go read…
November 2005
- Calling all LJ haxxors
- 5 things
- The horror
- More Spain photos
- We miss you, Marino
- I’m at about 80%
- And what’s the best thing to do for a sore throat?
- I’d forgotten
- Flawed, unsettling, but deeply worthwhile
- Thirty-four
- Patchwork
- Trapeze Life
- Sometimes I try too hard
- Protected: super seekrit job venting
- Nano shame
- Notes to self
- a few shout outs and news items
October 2005
- Exhausted
- Everything but Yul Brynner
- Más sobre Gijón
- Note to self
- Twee as…
- There ought to be a name
- Costumes
- It’s funny because it’s true
- Jet lag, etc.
- All LJ, all the time
- Gijón: five things
- thanks!
- I admire women who can wear heels
- In Spain
March 2004
- Misheard
- Wearing of the…no, not actually
- Graham Joyce
- Safety tips
- Early career choice
- Three cultural products worth consuming
- Thank you, Judge Koch
- Musical interlude
- All the local blogs and journals
- Late onto the bandwagon as usual
- Seattle weekend
February 2004
- Posy Simmons
- Deliberately concealed garments project
- Lynn Ponton
- In the air
- Thanks Ariel
- Race: the power of an illusion
- Past, blast from the
- Fun with titles
- Another one of those gender/sexuality articles
- Banned in Texas
- Trivia
- Time, lack thereof
- If you want to write
- A little less conversation, a little more action
January 2004
- It’s a good life
- Um, yeah
- Moving Day
- Another writing lesson
- She’s not there
- Album covers of your, um, dreams
- Sighted
- Mortal Engines
December 2003
June 2003
April 2003
February 2003
January 2003
December 2002
November 2002
- Better
- Cold
- The Lion, again
- Pulse, etc.
- Girl culture
- Miyazaki etc.
- Um. Wow. Part Two.
- Cold calling, part two
- Why there aren’t Empress t-shirts
- Another argument against consumerism
- Mixed-up Tenenbaums
- A mattress that obeys simple instructions
October 2002
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