Oh boy. The temperature's dropping and I just started reading Pale Fire by Nabokov. It seems boring already, five pages in, but what the hell. Moby Dick was pretty damn boring for the first few pages too, and that turned out to be a great book. Moby Dick was, like, the end of my summer and the whole wigged out move up to Portland. I still love thinking bout the scene when the little whale boat gets towed into the center of this massive pod of whales, where the whalers are all just sort of quiet and tripped out and there are babies and mothers giving birth and couples mating in this whole spiral that goes deeper and deeper into the clear water. All of this sort of calm that could be, and a little boat full of a bunch of stinky guys with spears.

Anyway. Listening to Radio Citizen. Tonight, page 1 and 2 of the snowman zine, but without the narration. Hello to everybody, hello to nobody. I'm so glad this little story's finally coming together.

Hello to everyone (if anyone) who is reading this. This is where I get serious about posting. I've been telling myself I'll post daily for a while now, so let's start with seven consecutive days and see how it goes.

The idea is basically a little note and an image daily. I'm working on a portfolio for the Center For Cartoon Studies in Vermont, and I'll post some of the stuff that I'm sending in. Tonight, I've got a page penciled for the "snowman, a robot, yourself and a piece of fruit" comic that's aimed at the Diamond in the Rough scholarship.

Other than that....

If you're wondering who I am, I'm a guy who lives in Portland (where it's rainy and windy and cold right now), having moved up here three months ago from LA. I was a teacher, and I've probably got some more teaching in my future. I'm married. I'm listening to The Pharoahs right now (which I think is some semi-obscure jazz/ funk reissue from Ubiquity). I draw a lot. I write a bit. I'm almost finished reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, by Haruki Murakami. Been looking at Kramers Ergot 6 for the past few days, too. Other than that, I swim, run and ride my bike.