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Beast Mothers, Blar, book sales and so forth

on September 10, 2005

Here’s that preview of another Blar story, as promised:

This complete story is a bit longer than the last. Those two, plus another short story and a bunch of pinups will be in the Blar mini I’ll have at SPX – I’ll try and post the cover up soon. If you can’t make it to SPX, it’ll be up on the Little House Comics shop shortly after.

This SPX seems like it might be the best yet – a bunch of SCAD-grad friends of mine are coming up, as well as a bunch of people I’ve only met on the internet thus yet. Even though they didn’t use my story in the SPX anthology… I can’t complain too much…

Eleanor finished her “Beast Mother” story a few days ago, and you should totally go and check it out! It’s a bit hard to navigate through the Livejournal, so here’s all of the pages in order:

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19

When you’re done with that, go here and tell her how awesome she is – I command it!

Speaking of Eleanor, we went to a book sale at the local library yesterday. We made sure to get there right as the sale began, since they were advertising a bunch of audio books and cds for sale. The place was packed – Eleanor actually had to leave after a few minutes and spend some quiet time in the rest of the library. Luckily enough, I’ve always had the capacity to completely immerse myself in poring through stacks of books (or comics, or records,) usually until someone physically pulls me away.

The audiobook section was mostly crap, unfortunately – they had an amazing amount of Chicken Soup for the So and So’s Soul books, and others of that ilk. The only real finds were Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, and Susan Cooper’s Greenwitch ( I highly recommend the first few books of her Dark is Rising series – exemplary young adult fantasy novels, if you read such things.) Of paperish books, a couple of Jane Austen books, a book of Guy de Maupassant short stories, and Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point , and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Crafts (and How to Master Them) rounded out our purchases.

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Ultimate Attack

on September 8, 2005

The pulse-pounding, senses-shattering conclusion to The Legend of Blar:

Heh. Tomorrow I’ll post up a snippet from the next Blar story.

Since yesterday, not one, not two, but three people have posted Blar fan art on their Livejournals. I am overwhelmingly flattered.

Eleanor and I went out to Juarez with J.P., Jacie, Joey, David, and Antar. (Yes, almost every person I know has a Livejournal now. Scary.) Eleanor got a spinach quesadilla which consisted of a normal quesadilla with about half a can of cooked spinach inside. She insisted she liked it, but I don’t know. I just had a burrito and taco.

You know, a year ago I didn’t much enjoy going out for even the most typical Mexican food, mostly because I was infamously picky about food – I’d been picky since I was in the single digits. I’ve made a concerted effort over the last year or so to get over this ridiculous mental block I have about food. All it takes is effort. It’s been a real revelation to go to all of these little foreign food restaurants around Savannah. A couple we’ve been to recently: The King & I (Thai,) Taste of India & Curry Corner (Indian.) A couple restaurants we plan to visit in the near future: Kim Chee (Korean) and Kao (Thai)

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The Castle Gllmthwrn

on September 7, 2005

Blar, part the fourth:

I put all of the previous Blar installments onto one page. One more part to go!

And so much more to do before SPX.

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Athens and back

on September 5, 2005

Blar, part the third:

The wedding was very nice… it took place in a one-room church, with lots of candles, a bit of live music, and a pleasant atmosphere. Dean and Sonrisa both looked incredibly happy.

I scored three pieces of wedding cake at the reception.

Getting up to the wedding was a bit of a trial. We managed to get lost twice, despite the fact that I must have driven from Savannah to Athens at least four or five times. We ended up arriving at the church just in time, having lost our 2 hour lead. We did get to drive through Elberton, the granite capitol of the world.

The next day we hung out with Robert, Mary Jessica, Erin and Patrick Dean. Robert insisted on showing us a bit of Jerkbeast – The Movie, which apparently revolves around a real Seattle cable access call-in radio show, in which a large paper-mache monster and his two cohorts insult the callers.

Every time I see Robert, he’s brandishing yet another example of humanity’s creative potential.

We all went out for Mexican food at Agua Linda – which, believe it or not, does not mean “Linda’s Water.” Afterward, we poked around Los Compadres, the Mexican grocery next door. We got a big glass bottle of coke, two popsicles (coconut and rice) and a big sugar cookie. Eleanor tried to get me to buy boots with embossed alligators on the toes. Then we drove home.

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