October 6th, 2008
[I’m re-posting the last post, ‘you do not have to be good’ because some pharmaceutical spammer seems to have lodged a zillion links in it. I was able to delete them, but the comment box is still disabled. So I’m just opening a new post.]
This morning, in the biography of William James that I’ve been making my way through at the pace of about two paragraphs a day for the past year, he described the New England autumnof 1908 as “heartbreaking in its sentimentality.” And indeed, even one hundred years of disastrous human history and climate change later, the foliage is so spectacular, it’s almost maudlin. Here’s the moose yesterday, carrying Mt. Abe on her shoulders.
And here’s a movie I made this afternoon while I was yanking up roots from the garden and flocks of wild geese honked by overhead.
Check out my pal Phranc’s daily variety show on YouTube. If Mister Rogers and Peewee Herman gave birth to a l’il bulldagger, this is what she’d be like.
October 5th, 2008
This morning, in the biography of William James that I’ve been making my way through at the pace of about two paragraphs a day for the past year, he described the New England autumnof 1908 as “heartbreaking in its sentimentality.” And indeed, even one hundred years of disastrous human history and climate change later, the foliage is so spectacular, it’s almost maudlin. Here’s the moose yesterday, carrying Mt. Abe on her shoulders.
And here’s a movie I made this afternoon while I was yanking up roots from the garden and flocks of wild geese honked by overhead.
Check out my pal Phranc’s daily variety show on YouTube. If Mister Rogers and Peewee Herman gave birth to a l’il bulldagger, this is what she’d be like.
October 2nd, 2008
Something’s going on with that last post–you can’t make comments on it. Let’s see if you can on this one.
October 1st, 2008
If you’re in NYC, get yourself to the First Annual Sarah Palin Book Club Fundraiser at Cattyshack! Thursday night October 2! 7pm! Help raise some much-needed dough for the Lambda Literary Organization.
October 1st, 2008
Yesterday I paid a visit to my publisher, Houghton Mifflin, in Boston, and got to meet these two guys who work on the American Heritage Dictionary. Read the rest of this entry »
September 26th, 2008
I’m home in Vermont after a three-day jaunt to the midwest, and look what happened while I was gone! The woods are aflame.
I carted State By State on my trip with me, which Read the rest of this entry »
September 23rd, 2008
This is me on the stage of the auditorium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I will imminently be giving a lecture. Out front, they have a computer set up with my blog on it. So I thought I’d make the blog be about the event.
I would like to have posted a picture here of the blog on the computer outside the auditorium. But I couldn’t manage that because I don’t have my camera cable, and my computer, with its magic internal camera, is all hooked up for the presentation. But I was able to use the magic computer camera to take this picture of me and the auditorium screen, which WAS projecting the camera image of me…but it got washed out at the moment the photo was captured.
Could you follow that?
Is anyone at the SAIC looking?
September 18th, 2008
Am I imagining it, or does there seem to be a lot of nostalgia lately for New Deal programs? A friend just sent me this beautiful postcard of a poster created for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. There was a show on tv the other night interviewing old guys who’d been part of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
And today State By State: A Panoramic Portrait of America is released. This is an anthology Read the rest of this entry »
September 11th, 2008
Thanks to the couple of folks who reminded me that yesterday was not just my birthday, but the birthday of another lesbian cartoonist, the phenomenal Kris Kovick. Read the rest of this entry »
September 7th, 2008
What is UP with For Better or For Worse? First she was gonna retire, right? Then she was gonna run old and new stuff alternately, which she seems to have done for the past year or so. Then there was this big finale last Sunday. Now she announces she’s gonna start over again from the beginning?! Read the rest of this entry »
