in my last comic (which I haven’t posted, because I want to send it out), i drew pigeons as triangles, now i’m experimenting with boiling other animals down to shapes. bears on the brain, right now.

• Lester Bangs once said, “In the history of rock n’ roll, no artist has squandered his talent so completely as Rod Stewart.” (Bangs also wrote a mini-biography of Stewart that I’m trying to get my hands on.) I can honestly say that EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY is one of my favorite albums ever. Seriously. Get it.
  
• The Walkmen are doing a live concert on NPR. Although I’m disappointed by the new album (the boring songs, the way-out-of-register singing…Pitchfork had a good review), I’m still looking forward to seeing them later this month.
• Article in VQR on Little Nemo In Slumberland, a favorite read before bed.
• Dancing On Fly Ash is two fellas who post daily 100-word stories. I like some of the stories a lot, and they post to some good-looking magazines I’d never heard of.