Hubris

A couple months ago Matthew Dick, propriator of the blog exquisitethings  published a kind review of my book Inkweed.  Now he's followed that up with an interview... with myself.

I say all kinds of crazy things... Also It was an email interview, and I made some spelling mistakes etc...  So sorry about that.

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 I'm not worldly enough to know whether people would actually dare to drink this stuff but fake or not these are potent images.

Yeah so Bea Arthur died, and it's funny because I was just watching a bit of The Golden Girls the other day, haven't seen it in like eighteen years or something, and there were two gags right in a row that I not only did not understand, but were so surreal that I couldn't even begin to unpack them. Maybe I need to watch more of The Golden Girls... or maybe I'm just an idiot.

In other news David Duke was arrested in and kicked out of the Czech republic for holocaust denying. He wrote this book which I guess was being translated and went to promote it... If you write a book in which you deny the holocaust you should always make sure that you only visit countries that are cool with that. Jeez what does that say about us... I know we have that whole first amendment thing but I kind of like how the Czechs just don't fuck around with that shit.

Blacklung is going steady, I am about to embark on what could be considered the final "part" I've got it all mapped out. I am afraid that it's going to be pretty unpleasant... I don't know if anyone is actually going to want to READ this thing. On the upside I think I'm getting a lot more confident artistically.

Thursday My fellow fellow Alec Longstreth and I are doing the old exit interview and presentation at CCS. I'm figuring out which portions to read for the class. I want to traumatize them. I won't though.

Oh yeah and seeing Feiffer was really really cool. I've never had a strong connection to his work, though obviously I think it's brilliant, but he is just one of those guys, those old timers who are mostly all dead now. Seen much, done much, and so fucking smart. It was a pleasure to see him with friends and then go to Pizza Hut (I know I know) and then buy a bottle of scotch to yell into the morning with. Good day. Dane David and Brandon.

I forgot why I was here.

Justice department must prosecute.

My Athens friends should be careful, there is a gun crazy professor on the loose.

It's not the bird flu after all its the pig flu.

OH and here is a really excellent podcast I found. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/

I listened to a two hour thing about Beethoven last night it was glorious.

I saw Jules Feiffer speak at CCS and Dartmouth and it was really romantic and wonderful.

I'm almost half way through Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse, and I think I am declaring it one of my favorite movies ever.

It's like pornography for people who like watching other people make art.

It's also like pornography for people who like seeing Emmanuel Beart naked.

Is Twitter going to be one of those things that I shake my fist at angrily but end up caving to in the end? Like cell phones, and facebook, and um, livejournal?

I hope not.

Normally I'm not so into the whole... whatever this is... James Kochalka type novelty song thing but, well I think this is pretty cute.



Speaking of Kochalka what is the deal with people pronouncing his name Kolchaka? Do they know something I don't know? Does the L actually move from spelling to pronounciation? I'm being serious I don't know. I mean after all Mike Mignola's name is apparently correctly pronounced Minyola. I just want to know.

Also, I like James Kochalka

Massively authoritative Picasso biographer John Richardson on the artists late work.

Some person named Buffalax on youtube who makes his own bollywood translations... I'm not sure how funny I think this is, but it certainly is a thing.

I started doing sketchbook drawings again, hopefully be posting regularly.

 My Inkstuds interview is up.  You can listen to me stumble over my words and forget the names of things until your heart is content.

www.inkstuds.com

I'm still working away on Blacklung. I've been meaning to post regularly again but who knows if that is going to happen.

A couple of kind reviews of Inkweed from Chris Mautner, and Charles Hatfield

Also I'm doing an Inkstuds interview on friday, I shall let the people know when it is going to be up on the site.

I feel like I've got a big post to make that hasn't quite finished gestating.

Anyway, love to you all

Harold Pinter died

Somebody seems to have hacked my account and put up this dragon avatar thing... Weird... I think I'm going to keep it... until I can't stand it anymore.

Also, Odetta died

Studs Terkel died.

He was 96 but it still makes me sad.

Normally I am not one to bring the cute, but this is just too much.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/27/lion-cub-wrestles-puppy-p_n_138391.html

Inkweed made it on to Heeb magazine's top ten comics of... something, I don't know if it's an annual list or not... Either way that's nice.

And no it's not a neo nazi publication, I think it's dedicated to young Jewish people... Ones with senses of humor.

Anyway, here is the list.

http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/1050

I saw Tropic Thunder, it was bad. 

There were funny parts but it was bad.

There is a very nice review of Inkweed on Rob Clough's sequart website. 

Next stop, New York Times.

My guest artist tenure began at www.partykausa.com today. Check them out for their awesome to incredible drawings and so on.