hermlet

on February 20, 2009
We went to the circus in Atlanta last night. It was amazing.

I haven’t been to one in decades, and never one so elaborate. They had big electronic displays and at one point they were playing what we all swore was a calliope’d version of Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up,” but the attempt to stay hip with the kids just made the whole thing more charming. Also, goats riding on ponies. 

Thanks for hooking us up with the tickets, Mr. Clark!

More monsters on Monday.

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Be our guest, be our guest

on February 18, 2009
We watched Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast” the other night, and of course the Beast is the most memorable part. Cocteau reportedly undermined his own “happy ending” on purpose, to point this up! What a beautiful and flawed movie. I guess this sort of fits in with my monster sketches?

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on February 16, 2009
Yesterday Eleanor and I celebrated “Velenxmas!” What’s that, you ask? It’s a holiday combining Valentine’s day, Eleanor’s birthday, and Christmas. It is celebrated only on years that your girlfriend Eleanor spends nearly a month away in Arizona over the holidays and then you’re both too busy to give each other presents for another month. Traditionally, one goes out for sushi and a beer before presents are exchanged.

It’s one of the more obscure holidays, I think maybe it’s Babylonian in origin.

Hey, Sergio Aragonés did a sketch with my pen in my sketchbook! This is not it:

He thought the pen was inadequate, but is a very funny and charming gentleman nonetheless. Catch some of his UGA lecture here.
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