Sara Ryan

Funny thing.
When you write a post that resonates strongly (counting LJ, Facebook, and sararyan.com, that’s more comments than I’ve gotten on a post approximately ever, and I appreciate all of them) you find yourself suddenly shy. Or rather, I do. I don’t know if you do. But if you do? I totally get it.
See, FYI, [...]

I have recently become a fan of the Grilled Cheese Grill. Its sandwiches are delicious, and the mural on the ceiling of its seating area — a schoolbus — is fantastic. See:

The artists are Eatcho and Jason Graham. I’m particularly impressed by how they blended their styles.
Now for a tiny nap, and then to start [...]

He looks a little Burning Man-y.

Showing my medieval festival geek roots, I first thought this was a sword; in fact it is a spinal column.

Not intentional art, but what the heck.

I finally got around to uploading more photos to Flickr.  Popular subjects include architectural detail, street art, window displays, public transportation, the really cool hotel we stayed at in Rouen, the beach at Saint-Malo. Also: occasional evidence that Steve and I were present.

Sugarplum Squeampunk (Especially “On This Odd Day.”)
Frank Talk With Lady Gaga (Can’t stop listening to her lately, and I’d been looking for a long-form article besides the ones that attempt to explicate her status as a tool of the Illuminati.)
The Danger of A Single Story (Some of you have probably already seen this brilliant talk [...]

I’m working on the graphic novel all day today, and listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
While staring into space (because that is, of course, an important component of working) I suddenly noticed the pleasing industrial geometry above. If you look closely, you can see the reflection of Steve’s drawing table.

…and then my voice went hoarse and my head went strange, and I thought about all the coughing people to whom I was in close proximity during the recent travels. And then I coughed. A lot.
So instead: a picture, then Nyquil.

More beach glass than I’ve ever found before. Are people in St. Malo less obsessive [...]

No time for a long post yet, but:

Here I am on the street near our hotel in Paris.

View from our hotel room.

Detail from one of the pillars at the Musee Cluny.

Sundial designed by Salvador Dali.

Stickers Soup.

We saw several of these seriously tagged white vans.

Actually it is just my typical bad cell phone camera shot. But it has that quality, don’t you think?

On our way to sell/donate books at the majestic Powell’s warehouse in the northwest industrial district, we saw this:

Any Portlanders familiar with this tiger? My Flytrap characters would’ve scaled the fence and done circus stunts on it.