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It’s funny how motivation grabs you. At some periods of my life I carried a sketchbook everywhere. This would usually result in a lot of drawing. These days if I sit down with a sketchbook I doodle out the same old faces, a few squiggles. It doesn’t tend to excite me.

My wife Faracy and I have been playing more music lately – I play guitar and she sings. Maybe that’s part of the reason I haven’t got the need to draw. Seems weird though, the idea that playing music would make you draw less. Can’t see how that would make much sense.

I’ve got a stable job at the moment for the first time in a while, teaching at University of Brighton. I’m trying to build some routines around the regular hours – exercise in the morning, make stuff in the evening.

Finally, I want to put in a brief plug here for issue 4 of the Comix Reader, out now. I submitted a couple of old Carl Garbanzo strips – should have done something new, but see paragraph one.

I ‘m having a go at the meme business.

I updated the About page on this website with a survey from a cat magazine.

I found this while looking for wordless comics with the popular search engine “Google”.

The blog it comes from is pretty mysterious, but I love the comic.

I included a pop at graffiti a couple of blog posts ago. Just to redress the balance:

Art by Bien Arbain, photo by E. Murcia Artengo

I have been listening to a lot of the PBS pop-science podcast Radiolab recently. This one talks (in passing) about a question Lewis Carroll raised in Through the Looking Glass: is mirror milk any good to drink? It got me thinking.

The thoughts soon ambled down a philosophical dead-end, but I won’t spoil it for you if you want to think about whether the reflection of milk has a taste. Trust me, there’s worse things you could do with your time.

Snapped this “giant spider” earlier today. This illusion occurs because the spider is in the foreground and therefore appears larger than things in the distance.

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