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... continues to accrue graphic goodness, day by day.

Amazing artist Nick Derington's on board, now,
gonna be providing a huge page of original sequential art.

Jon Adams of Truth Serum fame is working on a two-pager for the antho.

Lance Myers is putting his nonpareil talents to paper & ink for Minerva's, too.

Patty Leidy's working on an angst-ridden-yet-somehow-kawai tour de force.

And Angelica Brenner just showed me the roughs for her one-page comic.

And, textually speaking ...
I have an article due from Marc Savlov on Friday;
Marrit Ingman just turned in her terrific
"What the Alamo Drafthouse Means To Me" piece;
Kirk Lynn's new short story ~ that I commissioned so
it could be Nori-fied ~ is excellence itself; and Hannah Kenah
just finished recording her roundtable discussion with the Rude Mechanicals ...

Slowly, slowly, the edition accumulates ...

Just a day after Shando McCormick snagged me
for hosting duties for part of next Thursday's line-up at
the Out Of Bounds Improv & Sketch Comedy Festival ...

... I got a call from Paula Hanna of Riot Ink,
who asked me to be the featured reader at the next iteration
of their twice-monthly poetry reading series on that very same night.

No way, of course. 

But she'll be calling about some future spot in the months to come.

Ah, so much to do, so much to do ...

• 12:42 I'm trying to write ahead on some blog posts for work that will cover my upcoming vacation. I'm running a bit empty of ideas, tho. #
• 14:13 Suddenly, nose running & eyes watering. I hope it's not a cold :-( #
• 16:43 At the post office - I can't remember when I've experienced such persistent upselling. When I didn't upgrade delivery, she tried stamps. #
• 17:20 The nice big batch of gazpacho I made when it was in the mid-80s seems less inviting today when it's raining and 63 degrees. #
• 18:34 OK, now I really feel like I'm coming down with a cold. Darn it. Will try to fight it off with some extra sleep tonight. #
• 19:40 Listening to an amazing early live recording of Siegfried - just a year away from the Seattle Opera 09 Ring Cycle. #

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The Chronicle's Arts Editor, the redoubtable Robert Faires,
has assigned me to write the feature about Rubber Repertory's
The Casket of Passing Fancy, for our October 10th issue.

I'll have a length of between 2,000 to 3,000 words to work with.

I'm very happy about this,
and look forward to exercising my craft in ways that befit
what those Rubber Reppers have accomplished with their own.

The Chronicle's Arts Editor, the redoubtable Robert Faires,
has assigned me to write the feature about Rubber Repertory's
The Casket of Passing Fancy, for our October 10th issue.

I'll have a length of between 2,000 to 3,000 words to work with.

I'm very happy about this,
and look forward to exercising my craft in ways that befit
what those Rubber Reppers have accomplished with their own.

Favorites from the wedding of my nephew Tony and new niece-in-law (?) Erin, August 16 2008.   

Getaway 1

Sister Julie, me, brother John.  You'd never know we were related, would you?

Breakfast sibs

St.L. from Cahokia mound

Cahokia Mounds is very close to where Tony and Erin got married, in Collinsville, IL.    This is shot from the tallest mound, about 400 feet above the prairie - in the right middle ground you can see a smaller mound, and of course in the distance the city formerly known as 'Mound City', for the now-leveled remnants of the Mississippian culture that thrived here a thousand years ago.   At that time, the area was a native american city more populous than London.

Sibs

In our glad rags. None of my dress shirts button at the collar, suddenly.

Michael and Rose

This is Tony's elder brother Michael, with his wife Rose.    I didn't wind up with a shot of their toddler Gabriel.  

Happy Pete

Tony's dad Pete getting in to drive the getaway-mobile.   

Getaway

Love this one.  If you know Tony, you know the sheer relief flooding through him at this moment.

IMG_0413

My favorite Texans.   Basically, I'm very lucky in the matter of nieces and nephews.   Stewart was another photographic escapee this trip, along with Audrey and Judy.  

Pete'n'Julie

These two now have all three of their kids married off.    Can you tell?

Elements-required

I haven't decided what complicated curse this spell is for. I'm open to ideas.

ink & watercolour, 8x10 inches. This drawing appeared in Abracadabra, a book of over 30 collaborating artists who created artwork around the theme of magic.

its about imortality
Originally uploaded by geozila.

if you go to my link page at yahoo geocities you will see that i have signed up for many free websites and blogs in the last ten years ...yep there all free and there all suported by adds or something and some of them have bin there for ten years ...and even though i have never made a cent or paid a cent ...if these servers last for even one hundred years ..i have created some form of imortality for myself in cyberspace ...like the valley of the kings or the great pirimids ...in fact in the next add suported 200 years there is a posibility that someone will dig up my free site network and do a documentary on me and twice the population of this entire plannet today will see me

Every year after the all of the fruit from the trees has been devoured they, the ants, move indoors.  To my kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom sink - they must be thirsty?

I always place Grant's Kills Ants around, but they don't care.  No matter how clean the house, I would either wake up to or come home to find a nasty thick black line of ants munching something overlooked on the floor, like a piece of kibble the cat dropped, then have to get the can of Ant Spray out, then have to clean the dead ants and ant spray off of floor so the cats wouldn't get sick from the poison.

I saw a documentary not too long ago about these ants in the jungle and how the villagers looked forward to them coming every year because they'd take away some material that attracted some other bigger badder something or something like that. 

I know there isn't ANY food in my bedroom so I wondered what the ants were eating and was about to get the spray out and do some damage and then I recalled that documentary and realized they are probably eating dead spiders and bugs hidden in the dust bunnies under my bed and dusty corners of my closet and all-what-not, so this year I decided to let them have at it and clean the house for me this time around.

That was about 3 days ago and now all of the ants are all almost gone, I've only seen a few so far today.

But the other night there was a grain of rice on the counter and you should have seen this group of little ants all working together to move it.  It was a pretty damn freaky sight, I was afraid they'd grow and mutate in the night and carry me away so I took the rice grain away from them.  Letting them eat is one thing, but feeding them is another - I can't have them get too strong...

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