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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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on February 13, 2009
Hey, Sergio Aragonés is doing a lecture at UGA tomorrow!

Hi to all the people who came by from Kate Beaton’s blog! And if you haven’t seen her comics, check ’em out. I’m a sucker for gossipy history, for reals. I’d have actually learned something in grade school history class if they’d told us the juicy bits.

More monsters next week!

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No nudity here… today.

on February 12, 2009
There was a life drawing session today at the Ga Museum, and I got some pretty good sketches done. This is not one of them, though:

I’ve been rereading the Scott Pilgrim series recently.

…Isn’t everybody?

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