Ladder to the Stars

BirdyNamNamofficial | May 29, 2009 (via Awesome Robot)

January 16, 2010 half the month is gone just like that. I'll blink and half the year will have passed. I feel as though as I age I become more comfortable with ephemera. I will always be something of an obsessive documentarian of trivialities and minutia, but I think things have been slowly evening out through the years. I would say that my life is a testament to the triumph of the termite over the white elephant.

I now have all the things needed to fix my guitar so I suppose that will be what I will be doing this afternoon. If I can fit in tinkering with my bluetooth transmitter, maybe I will overcome the fear of permanently botching the job----or electrocuting/burning myself. Lately I have been clearing out a lot of old things on my dusty to-do list.

Three reasons to give oculoid a peek.
http://oculoid.com/mail-out-by-jainai-jeffries/
http://oculoid.com/illustrations-by-richard-wilkinson/
http://oculoid.com/moleskine-by-james-jean/

I think I've been severely remiss at mentioning the other blogger.com bloggers I blog, uh, follow. So in no particular order here is a list of people and blogs you should become familiar with, should you wish to survive the new year:

1) Mark Kardwell's Bad Librarianship
2)Asaf and Tomer Hanuka's Tropical Toxic
3) Bob Flynn's Jinx the Monkey
4) David Apatoff's Illustration Art


kinagrannis | January 13, 2011 (I have a secret crush on Emi)

Wobbly Arms

rundrummer — February 03, 2006 — Gene Krupa takes over the drums for a band and goes on a ride

http://www.stumptowncomics.com/ The stumptown comics festival was this weekend. I didn't go, and as usual I am left with emotions of longing and loss. I need to get out of my rut and be someplace some of the time.

In the meantime these wonderful projects are ongoing:
http://drawn.ca/2010/04/21/the-page-100-project/
the uniform project

Also there are these wonderful things keeping me connected to the artist paradise I seek:

http://www.inprnt.com/artists/

How to be a Retronaut

Lines and Colors is one of my favorite blogs of all time! Where else would I learn about:

wei te - the cowherd's magical flute
tropical toxic - tomer and asaf hanuka
alexa meade

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Giant Ant Colony is a World Wonder - Watch more Funny Videos


Dog Goes Nuts During Soldier Homecoming - Watch more Funny Videos
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I discovered Archer this weekend and summarily decided it is excellent by virtue of its hilarious cast.

I also caught up with the latest chapter of meredith gran - octopus pie and realized how wonderful this little web comic actually is.

I am now seriously (yeah right) considering developing a
kickstarter project. What I really need is a kick in the pants, however.

A Princess of Mars has been on my playlist for the last 2 weeks. I am only 2/3 of the way through since I blank out every other chapter and need to skip backward. I'm not sure where I got these Marc Nelson narrated files, but they are par excellence. Is this the same Marc Nelson of Arthur fame? Oh wait, I see that its Marc Brown who did that.

I found myself recently reading about euhemerus after finding out about his take on the Greek myths (especially the sirens). I knew there had to be a word for modern demythologizing; well one that sounds literary anyway.

I found Smilla's Sense of Snow by chance and now I am captivated. I'm going to finish watching it tonight.


chimpsnatch — April 15, 2010

p.s. Happy DNA Day