In fact, it is probably best to get someone to hide your computer from you so you do not accidently find yourself doing work. And I agree with judybusy – don’t feel the need to blog about it. It is well earned and very belated, as I’m sure you would have needed one after completion of Fun Home, as I imagine creating that as well as the strip would have been utterly exhausting and draining (though of course well worth it as it is a wonderous book). THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER YEAR of all your wonderful work!!!ĭo please take a break. The final jewel in today’s crown was finding a christmas tree lot (albeit, 10 miles out of the city) that was selling perfectly lovely white pine trees for a mere TWENTY FIVE BUCKS!!! TWENTY FIVE BUCKS!! (usually all the trees start around $45 (The artificial trees don’t smell like christmas!! )Īlison, may you find peace, revitalization, and SLOTH in great quantities. Either he is extremely open to style, or else he is gay and his gaydar went off for this quiet neighborhood bi-woman. Then I walked into the neighborhood liquor store where this very good looking mediteranean man who works there did a double take and gave me total affirmation. Ostensibly it was a charitable gesture from a person who has lost two old friends to cancer this year and is herself a survivor of radiation therapy, but really, it gave me permission to go back to my 90s look. But today I found a slammin’ barber who gave me an awesome flat top fade and I sent my 15 inch braid through the mail to LOCKS FOR LOVE (which is a foundation that makes wigs for children with cancer.) People move from the DC area to Baltimore and they stop cutting their hair. The other topic I wish to weigh in on is the “great relief of being able to get a haircut” (to paraphrase an old John Sebastian song.) Today, for the first time in TEN LONG YEARS, I got a haircut. Whenever friends or co-workers tell me that their child has gone away to college or overseas or something and HAS NOT CALLED IN (or e-mailed), I tell them that unless one breaks all connection with “home,” one cannot truly experience travel. It will personally make me very happy to think that you have severed all connection with your fawning and desperate blog fans (of which I count myself one), because a BREAK is most invigorating. (Or else they totally feared creativity.) The Catholic Church was all wrong in making SLOTH one of the 7 Deadly Sins. Creativity (in my experience) demands periods of SLOTH. (I forget who said that, but it has comforted me for years.) Guilt is the least productive of human emotions. Maybe I better crank out those strips after all.īoth comments and pings are currently closed. Lewis Trondheim is one of the most prolific authors of his generation, and has published more than thirty-five books in a period of ten years.įuck. Lewis Trondheim is winning the Grand Prix this year. But it means another big intercontinental schlep that I hadn’t accounted for in my schedule.
Gentle reader plus#
Plus I just found out I’ve been invited to the Angoulême International Comics Festival in January. Even without the spam, my email inbox is utterly out of control.
Gentle reader install#
And to install SpamSieve, which has caught 80 of those penny stock emails in the past 24 hours. Already I’ve had time to get a much-needed haircut. They’ve just been piling up all year while I’ve been flying hither and yon promoting Fun Home. So I mulled over her message for a day or so, and decided she was right.
I think my haggard Family Zone photographs alarmed her. This person was, in fact, telling me to give it a rest, but she didn’t mention anything about staleness, just suggested that a little time off might be rejuvenating.
I feel pretty bad about it for many reasons.ġ.) I only feel like I deserve to live if I’m actively producing work.Ģ.) Remember that episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where we learned that Ted had never taken a vacation? He was terrified he’d get fired once the network saw how smoothly things went without him.ģ.) You guys just chipped in all those donations to the website, and now I’m stiffing you two episodes.īut Wednesday evening I received an email from a reader entitled “your sabbatical.” I opened it in a panic, assuming it was someone telling me the strip had been getting stale so I should give it a rest. It’s the third deadline I’ve missed this year. And here I am today, after having decided to send out re-runs of my comic strip this month. Here I am Thursday, facing my staggering workload.
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