During the past few days I have been thinking a lot about what my life consists of. Maybe it's my impending 35th birthday, maybe it's post-Slovakia ruminations, maybe it's just me thinking about my life as a series of losses ( Read more... )

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I was a little sad when I read a month ago that Frank Frazetta died. Frazetta was a huge influence on me when I was just starting to draw the human figure. Most of the early "Fighting Man of Aranas" comics I drew in high school were practically love letters to him and Edgar Rice Burroughs ( Read more... )

I was cruising around HowStuffWorks and found a list of famous people who died before the age of 40. I was actually looking for something else, but read the list when I got there ( Read more... )

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So, the other day, Steven Hawking declared that the chances of alien life making a friendly visit to slim. He said that the visit would be devastating to human beings ( Read more... )

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Miriam gave me two suggestions for dealing heartbreak, and I have been doing them about every other day for the past two weeks. One was to keep a journal of letters never sent. (Admittedly, most of these are just lists of questions or lists of things I miss about her ( Read more... )

It seems as though I may have an opportunity to go to Slovakia this summer after all. That would be a welcome escape, if only for a week. This time I might even be staying in the mountains outside of Martin, where I hiked and was so inspired to draw a few summers ago.