Slinking Suburbs

October 14, 2009

I heard a story on NPR the other day (ok, maybe the other week) about a weird trend in recent post bubble real estate, where realtors pay ACTORS to pretend to be neighbors in suburbs, with staged barbecues and invitations to nonexistent little league games, so that an empty neighborhood would seem to have people

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Flying

October 10, 2009

I haven’t even gotten around to drawing last week’s Illustration Friday theme, “germs” (I really wanted to do that one but I probably won’t) but I’ve got something old-ish for this week’s theme, “flying.” Probably a better title would be falling but…I drew this image after reading Rogue Planet (a Star Wars book) by Greg

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Fan Girl (me)

October 5, 2009

On Sunday, Matt and I went to see Neil Gaiman reading at Cleveland Public Library. Amazingly, this event was free. I mean, I would have paid to see Neil read, but free is fantastic. Our libraries rock. Anyway, Matt is wonderfully supportive of my fan-girl-ness. It probably helps that he is also a big fan

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