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David Bowie Secrets

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Steve left a party by saying, in a somewhat loud but very cordial tone, “Good evening.” Once he was out the door, I said, “What a Dracula!” Ben Blacker replied, simply, “’Steve Agee’s Dracula.’” And then this.

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I want to see them all.

Posters of european animated feature films projects selected by professional Cartoon Movie 2016 festival. - “Little Jules Verne” by Regis Vidal with designs by Fabien Mense - “A childhood of Martha Jane Canary” by Remi Chaye (Long Way North) - “A Skeleton Story” by Mad Entertainment (L'Arte della felicita, Cinderella The Cat) - “Cinderella The Cat” also by Mad Entertainment - “Another Day Of Life” by Platige Image - “Louise en Hiver” by Jean-François Laguionie - “Tulipe” by Gagnol & Felicioli (A Cat in Paris) and Folimage studio - “Domenica” by Ugo Bienvenu & Kevin Manach (former Gobelins students) - “Tistou of the Green Thumbs” by David Berthier (former Disney animator) and Amandine Taffin (Le Jour des Corneilles) - “Moustique, Cigale et Cambriole” (was Travel to Mama) by Cedric Babouche

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"As a matter of self-protection, not letting people know you is safer than letting them know you and then not liking what they find." Maybe this is the year that I confront this voice.

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Some of the 23 spots I drew for the latest New Yorker on the theme of keeping warm (yes, again, first time I did it two years ago). Only 2-3 of these got printed, but I’m rather fond of the unpublished ones, especially the dog and the fellow with the pipe. Dunno what to do with them now…

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Baby girl got a little bob. 😻 #Hairbrained #smithanddavissalon #imadeabob #bobsnbangs #lilcrimper #crimpinainteasy #undercut #boxbob #littlebob #modernsalon #americansalon #btcpics #behindthechair

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I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.

The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah

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Seven Things I Did To Reboot My Life

About twenty years ago, I had a portable spa in the back yard of my first house. One day, the heater stopped working, so I called a repairman to come out and look at it. He told me that there would be an $85 charge no matter what, and I told him that was okay. When he got to my house, he opened up the access panel where the heater, pump, and filter lived. He looked inside, then looked back at me.…

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Why Star Trek matters.

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When Franchesca asked attendees at New York Comic Con about the need for superheroes of color on the last episode of Decoded, I don’t think she was expecting such a perfect response on why representation matters. 

Yet here I am, reveling in the truth of that soundbite. *preach*

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All I can say is, it took me about ten years to learn how to write a story I knew was something like what I wanted to write. In the sixty years since then I’ve learned how to do some more of what I’d like to do. But never all.

Ursula K. Le Guin, October 18th, 2015, Gollancz Festival (via ellenkushner)

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Harry Clarke. Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination. 1919.

via 50watts

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Happy 70th birthday, Annie Dillard! One of the greatest writers of our time on how to live with presence.

(Illustration by Wendy MacNaughton)