Sara Ryan

Or rather, a meme I hope to inaugurate. I just got a copy of What It Is, and I find it as wonderful as I thought I would. Barry’s looking at the process of creating any kind of art — how we shut ourselves off from it out of fear, how we can open up [...]

Excerpted from a series of email exchanges, with a Helpful Illustration and a Poem. Why? Because wombats.
carapace_green: Article found today on PubMed while I was looking for a particular article on D. discoideum: FAITH M. WALKER, ANDREA C. TAYLOR, PAUL SUNNUCKS (2007) Does soil type drive social organization in southern hairy-nosed wombats?
Molecular Ecology 16 (1) [...]

From my spam filter:
Wedding Rings Class Rings Pearl Harbor
What’s the funniest and/or oddest spam you’ve gotten lately?

Do you have any?
I’m gonna update my FAQ. (Where F=”at least twice.”)

It is already Tuesday and Friday after work I will be on a train to Seattle for the Emerald City Con! All with the books and comics and buttons and whatnot!
I put those exclamation points in to help inspire myself, because right now this second I’m thinking dang, I am tired and it would be [...]

I’ve been reading Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude, the audiobook version, and just got to this passage:
It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, [...]

Yikes, I almost forgot!
Sometime before the end of today, I will release a copy of Empress into the wild. Not sure where yet. Perhaps a community center…

James Jean for Prada.
Tilda Swinton is a fan.

And hey, buying a bag means never having to worry if it’s going to fit.
Though the silk organza skirt is pretty darned amazing, too. See more about the collection over at Comics212, where I found out about the whole thing.

We flew from winter to spring. Came home to lots of kind cards, all much appreciated. Last night there was a small gathering of comics folks and I got to meet Larry Marder. Good conversation, comforting normalcy. The quotidian reasserts itself: cat is overdue for checkup, furnace needs inspecting, we need new window coverings due [...]