Aliens etc.

'Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing anointment utensil, he poots forths a quarter-ounce green rosette near the summit of a dense but radiant muffin of his own design.'

-'Muffin Man', Frank Zappa

My computer has had a stroke and lost all her memories, but she is recovering with the loving support of family and friend (me). In case you were losing sleep over it.

In lieu of a real post (because it is March), I'm just going to put up some more doodles. Personally, I love this stuff; the things other people imagine can be very surprising, particularly with people who don't draw much otherwise. Only a couple today, until I scan some more.

I don't plan ahead, so most of the time the figures end up sprawled across physics problems. Normally, I would take the numbers out of the scanned images, but because my (mediocre) photo editing software disappeared with much of the rest of my computer, I've had to resort to airbrushing in Paint in order to make the numbers under the actual drawing less visible.

Egyptian style is cool, or I can't draw feet. Also some ill-defined referencing of REM lyrics.

I must be the most impatient person in the world.

I had pie for breakfast

on pi day, hooray.

Powerful, Beyond Words

Some of you may remember the Scholastic store in New York, where I read part of a story and we looked at the harry potter merchandise. (That trip was way too satisfying to my not-very-inner child.) Some of you may also remember leaving the store, only to find out that I was actually quietly busy at the cash.

'It's for my mother,' I insisted. 'Her birthday is coming up.'

('So...you bought her a picture book?'
'It's a graphic novel.')

I finally read (read? looked at pictures, really. but looked intensely) it on Friday, and I was really quite stunned by its beauty.

As always, clicking will tell you more. It's really quite breathtaking, as a story and as artwork. Of course, it's also set in a strange and wonderful world, with strange and wonderful plants and animals and architecture and technology...the sort of things I love best.