Sara Ryan

1. Can’t stop listening to Busdriver.

Anyone have some “if you like Busdriver, you’ll like…” suggestions?
2. Love this post from Jonathan Carroll that begins: “Part of creating is letting go.” I needed to hear that. You, too?
3. A chicken with a skull necklace:
4. Been thinking a lot about this quote from Mark Haddon, whose A [...]

Hey didn’t we just do this? Yes we did. (Relatively speaking.) Here we go…
Cannot believe how many people managed to cram into Cosmic Monkey for the trophy awards & Comic Art Battle. I was happy to meet Matt Silady and Kirsten Baldock (comics writer, librarian, and bartender — I knew we’d get along) and Jason [...]

I couldn’t believe this when I saw it, so naturally I had to document.

Photos from TBF Live! 2008 a few weeks back, courtesy of the fabulous Sarah Hodges. Thanks, Sarah!

Anna and Emi, handlers extraordinaire! Note that Emi does not actually have someone else’s head growing out of her shoulder.

Me and Sarah, also a handler extraordinaire and official Adult!

Me and Anna.

At one of my sessions. It delights me that [...]

Conversation en route to the sale: “Well, it’s Sunday, so probably someone’s already bought the skull.” “Yeah. Oh well.”

My grandparents had this same thermometer/barometer. Theirs still had the man with the umbrella, though.

There was a plethora of anticommunist and Catholic ephemera. And one, lone, girlie picture. (But it was the last day of the sale. [...]

and found the Fraenkel Gallery. Fell in. So many gorgeous, haunting images. So many stories.
This is the one I was looking for –

doesn’t it look oddly like she has an iPod?

(…I like the way this photo came out. Considerably less lame than most of my camera-phone shots.)

Because we didn’t have enough going on already.

This was taken right before we left. Snag has used this suitcase-sitting strategy before. So far it has not succeeded in preventing us from traveling, but I’m glad he’s still trying.

There are some very cool old buildings downtown.

There are, of course, many things you can practice, improve, better.
But I am increasingly of the opinion that the hardest things you have to do, you can’t practice for.
P.S. Apparently, the sign’s actual purpose is to prohibit student drivers from the parking lot.