just touching base ~

[lookingland]

the internet is up, the internet is down. it's been goofyland here for the last few days, so i am sorry if i haven't been responding much, etc. but without internet, i've washed dishes, washed laundry, made a macaroni casserole, done a lot of reading, completed a couple more pages for Reconstruction, and watched a few movies. sometimes it's hard to remember what life without internet is like. then you realize it's probably a great deal more productive on some levels.

all that said, this guy is my latest hero. i like to believe that anyone who is truly dedicated to something will eventually "make it". i like to believe that the only thing between me and success is a willfully obstinate laziness and lack of discipline. anyway, read his story and be inspired.

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on the creative front: i'm working, i'm working. slowly but surely. 5 days to launch. i'm sorta excited, i guess. nervous too. too many false starts last year. feeling a wee shy.

doodling today, i made this scribble of a couple of very random young lovers wandering in the countryside on an auspicious evening for the amusement of good company over at jwb1865.


more and more i am considering just randomly doodling the Poppet book digitally (without regard to trying to make "art" of it), and just sort of pastiche-ing it together out of quotes from 1001 sources. and making it a wee more epic in scope ~ kitchen-sinking it, in other words. i dunno. prolly just off on yet another looloo with this. so i will let it sit until a more concrete game plan comes along. a local friend has threatened to buy me a summer "outfit" and make me wear it every week if i don't finish a draft within the next few months. anyone who knows me well knows this a seriously horrific threat.

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Comments

[minstrel-ivare.livejournal.com]

What a sweet picture!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thanks ~ !

seems to me no self-respecting account of the booth clan can help including the star shower on the night of edwin's birth.

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[ryan-howse.livejournal.com]

I learned about Jonathon Coulton a few weeks ago. He's really great; I quite enjoyed "Re: Your Brains" and he also did the song for the ending of Portal.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

yeah, i bumped into him on the internet by accident last week ~ now he seems to be popping up everywhere! good for him. he seems like a stand-up kind of guy.

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[faynudibranch.livejournal.com]

uhm you're amazing. And I picture, elsewhere, a frantic Junius Jr. on horseback! In stark contrast. :) So pretty.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

ha thanks ~ ! my original thought was to put junius galloping through, but for i wanted a more "sheperds watch are keeping" thing going.

i s'pose if i were to be serious about doing this, there's no reason we couldn't have both.

not so much the bloody caul though.

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[faynudibranch.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha -- no, it's perfect with just the lovely, peaceful scene. I'ts just fun to imagine Junius is secretly out there too :).

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

maybe it could just be a footnote.

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[faynudibranch.livejournal.com]

I was going to say "I can't believe we're both awake" but it occurs to me you're probably in a time zone where this is secretly 7:42 -- still too early -- but nonetheless morning. Anyhow, with your picture in mind, I'm now going to sleep ^^.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

awww, i'm actually central time ~ it's 6:45 in the a.m. ~ my dogs get me up before dawn.

sleep well!

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[sparowe]

Your scribble made me smile. :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

yay ~ ! thanks!

i hope your back is feeling better!

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[lanyn.livejournal.com]

That might just now be my favorite picture of yours ever! I'd love to put that one on my wall. Not only is it beautiful, but with an astronomer for a dad, I've been hearing about (and seeing the famous wood cut illustration) since before I could talk. Meteor showers have always been special. We'd go out every year for at least one shower and spend the night in sleeping bags on a concrete slab in the middle of nowhere where my dad could take pictures, and we could watch all night (and drink hot chocolate from thermoses and eat cookies, which was often more important to my sister and me at that tender age than counting meteors in an hour, LOL!).

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

awwww, what a wonderful childhood memory! thank you for sharing it!

and hot cocoa is still pretty high on my list compared to staring at the night sky ~ nice that we can do both.

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