Archive for June, 2008

Harpies and Peanuts

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Wilde attributes this joke to Carlyle: a biography of Michelangelo that would make no mention of the works of Michelangelo. So complex is reality, and so fragmentary and simplified is history, that an omniscient observer could write an indefinite, almost infinite, number of biographies of a man, each emphasizing different facts; we would have to [...]

Hand Flower

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Doorknob Maze

Friday, June 20th, 2008

It’s been a while since I posted any drawings. Actually, it’s been a while since I posted much of anything. I’ll try to fix that in the weeks ahead. This is an idle sketch I drew a while back, probably while watching TV. Recently I’ve been inking some of these things to keep in practice.

Another Short Note on Something Away From This Site

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I have a review of Kate Orman’s Eighth Doctor book The Year of Intelligent Tigers in the latest issue of Shooty Dog Thing, a Doctor Who fanzine edited by Paul Castle.

In Which I Worry About My Attention Span

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I started this blog—ages ago, in internet time—to get my brain working, force myself to react to what I read, and put my thoughts in order. But I’ve never kept it up for very long at a stretch, and longer essays—“longer” in blog terms, anyway—are rare. I feel like my attention span has atrophied. I’ve [...]

Rocks are Inadequate Monsters

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I have a guest comic strip up today at Scary Go Round, having managed to score a runner-up slot in this year’s strip competition.