I thought I’d try selling my ipad to make some cash to upgrade to an ipad 2. This is kinda dumb, given that I won it in a drawing and I don’t really need the ipad in the first place, but ipad 2s exist, and I have the ipad 1, and I’m a geek so some nagging part of my brain says I’m pretty much required.

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I had seven days off over Thanksgiving, and figured it’d be a good time to work on A1. But I got a bit distracted.

He did a double-take, consciously bringing his eyes around to the sign that his subconscious, peeking around the side of his vision while he was otherwise occupied, had read with enough alarm to make him take notice. But again his inner self had proved to be a very attentive, yet unreliable observer — when it (he?) metaphorically stiffened its theoretical back and wordlessly exclaimed, “hey, that sign says ‘Get Fit, Chicago!’” he had to see it for himself. However, it simply said “Get Fit Together”, which was a much more tolerable proclamation. 

Had his subconscious been correct, he would’ve joined it in its mild irritation.

That form of bluster rarely seemed appropriate — “hey, do this RIGHT NOW, Citywe’rein!” — especially as now, when the command was issued from the front window of a storefront gymlet, down a side street of a side street, hardly able to make its demands known by people a hundred yards away, let alone the entire population of a major metropolitan city. As it was, however, the experience just left him amused at what effect reading a good book will have on the way he thinks. 

Yep I’ve been inactive, creativity-wise…and actually reading the last thing I wrote here, whoo that’s a bit maudlin. Well, these days I’m a lot better, but instead of going the “okay! I’m going to create things again!” route, I appear to have gone the “you know, maybe it doesn’t bother me if I don’t create things” route.

I appreciate the concern and appreciation of those of you who had written things here. Thanks. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the last few months thinking about…oh, the point of it all, I guess. Creatively I think I’ve historically been driven by a need to be heard, to be appreciated, and to get an audience; but I’m coming around to the question, do I really need to? And I’m kinda thinking no. Which for me, in terms of the typical turmoil in my head, is a good thing, because the turmoil’s been pretty calm lately, and I’m thinking of my life less as stresses I create to force myself in certain directions, and more as taking myself in directions because I feel like it.
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Think it’s time to put Scribs on hiatus again. It’s been a long time since I’ve really been inspired to draw anything, and I’m kinda in the process of learning that you can’t just wait around for inspiration, but…well I’m saying it’s time. I started drawing an arc that I haven’t finished, but you’ll see that it even feels like a farewell thing. Or maybe that’s what it turned into, or…I’m not sure. My relationship with characters I draw tends to be a little complex, I forget a little if I’m the chicken or the egg.
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I just ripped a really rancid fart and I thought I’d write a post about it.
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I went a bit out of sequence with this Scribs; I still have three more comics for the Nina arc to do, but I had this idea that I worked on over the weekend that I wanted to publish.

For years and years I’ve had this idea of a comic set up in a grid format, such that you can start from the top left, and go either right or down from each panel, with the strip still making sense in whichever order you choose. I never really took a shot at it because my thought process generally went:

1) hey, that grid idea
2) whoo, tough
3) lunch

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I’ve spent a fair amount of time pondering what’s going wrong with my podcast, and I think I have a hint. Which kind of sucks, because now I’ve had A Thought, and The Thought is getting in the way of my doing another one.
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or is it???

Anyway, Schrödinger’s Cat is back. If you find that a bit interesting or not at all, there it is. If you find that a lot interesting, then there’s something extra there for you.

One of my stats things says I have 400 readers. If it’s to be believed, I mean…I guess that’s good? Right?

Doing another Ustream tonight, probably for not more than an hour. My mom will likely be present, so take that. tonight I’m going to be coloring Scribs I’ve drawn. Hopefully three, but I probably can’t do that many in an hour, because these particular ones are more complicated than usual.

http://www.spinnwebe.com/ustream/

I’m ridin’ the Ustream train that the kids are all loopy about these days. If you have a particularily boring time pencilled in for 10pm EST this Wednesday, I’m going to be live streaming formatting a “see also” comic that I’ve been meaning to get to for a while.

http://www.spinnwebe.com/ustream/

I forgot to mention that the third podcast is at Keep Being Awesome. I’m getting desperate already for people to call the phone number I bought for it. Just call and leave any sort of nonsense.

The next podcast is up over at Keep Being Awesome.

It’s not fully together, but enough so, I think:

http://www.keepbeingawesome.com/

I’m going to wish I integrated that blog with this one, the same way I did with Scribs, I just know it.