Here’s the latest. This temporary slowdown to one strip every four weeks is working out pretty good for me. I’m starting to make a dent in all the other stuff I have to do. Read the rest of this entry »
Look, this came in the mail yesterday. The official publication date is June 5. In a couple weeks I start flitting hither and yon again, and not a moment too soon–I’m almost out of tiny hotel bottles of shampoo. (Uh…I have a dim recollection of having made that feeble shampoo joke before. Sorry if I’m repeating myself. It must be a side-effect of too much travel.) Anyway, come see me read at one of these places:
New York:
May 30: Barnes & Noble, UWS, 2289 Broadway @ 82nd, 7 pm
June 2: Book Expo, BEA, Signing & Panel Events Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a real movie for you. The trailer for The Hollywood Librarian, an amazing film being made by Ann Seidl, a sometime poster to this very blog.
It’ll be premiering at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in D.C. at the end of June. Here’s the Hollywood Librarian site.
I’m glad I read the comments to the last post through to the end–that was a bracing exchange on the French election, modern European history, and amnesia.
I also loved the range of responses to the first archive episode–the deeply nostalgic ones, and the ones from people who weren’t even born yet.
This evening I made a movie about the progress of the flora in my woods since my last report on April 27. My woods…I know, I know, that’s obnoxious. The woods. Is that better? I don’t know why I keep subjecting you to these slapdash video projects. It helps me decompress or something. From my fast-paced, stressful life in the woods.
Hey, Fun Home won a prize on Monday. The Publishing Triangle-Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. It’s a pretty cool thing. You can read about the other winners here. Right now I’m reading one of the other nonfiction finalists, Different Daughters, A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement. It’s fascinating. How did those women have the nerve to do what they did? In the fifties? I don’t know. But I’m glad they did.
Okay, today my new plan goes into effect. Recently I explained that out of necessity I’m cutting back to one new strip a month for a while. And in between I’ll post re-runs. I’m beginning at the beginning, twenty years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
My flight from Pittsburgh to New York this morning was, as seems much more likely than not these days, late. It arrived at La Guardia minutes before my connection to Burlington was scheduled to leave. I sprinted the half mile or so from the arrival gate to the departure gate only to find that my Burlington flight was indeed “closed.” They booked me on another flight that will—theoretically—leave in two hours. I started walking aimlessly around the terminal, adjusting to this new plan and Read the rest of this entry »