DE-CLUTTERING

This blog began four years ago today. Time for me to take back control. Less words, more cartoon action, more often. My Ego will go on telling her life story, on her own page. This is my space.

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CHANGES IN THE OFFING

Only two days to go until my fourth blogiversary and you can expect a new look over here. Every so often I get an irresistible urge to change my surroundings which sometimes takes the form of moving heavy furniture or painting walls a different colour or even relocating to another country. But a blog is not unlike a physical environment and re-inventing it is a bit less drastic than any of the above. Let's just say I've been thinking.

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THE BOOK LAUNCH REPORT, FINALLY

A voice keeps nagging in my head: get back to the blog, blog the launch, blog the blog, tote that barge, lift that pail, lalalalala or you'll land in jail. No, that's ridiculous, but if I stay away from the blog too long I will, in fact, lose all of you, my blogging buddies. If bloggers I often visit stop posting for long enough, I stop visiting them. So why should others not do unto me as I undo unto them?

The problem occurs when the sense of duty takes over from the sense of fun.
Have to blog = bad.
Want to blog = good.

To tell the truth, I just haven't felt the urge to blog, or the urge to do anything at all lately . The build-up to the book launch took so much effort then there was the excitment of the day itself and then I had my sister staying for a few days and hence a lot of Going Out but now it's back to normal: ie more STGN. You don't know what those letters stand for? I'll let you guess. Whoever gets it right gets a free book.

You're asking : how did it go?

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A DOODLE FOR TODAY IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY

GOOD FRIDAY MYSTERY

The days are longer now and about seven last night when I was coming back home on the bus, a wide cadmium orange sunset stripe was splashed behind dark purple houses and above it the sky was a light, intensely bright cobalt blue. I was staring at fragments of this fauve painting as it appeared and disappeared between buildings when suddenly I did a double take.....

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Slideshow of pages from The God Interviews

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The God Interviews is the book version of a comic strip by Natalie d'Arbeloff originally posted on her blog, Blaugustine. The book is available from Lulu on this page:

http://www.lulu.com/content/610429

Further details are also here.

BLOG FATIGUE

It happens, doesn't it? Not a desire to give up blogging. Not at all. Just a temporary lull, when writing even the shortest post is too much effort and merely clicking on the links to favourite blogs, or to anything at all, is too much. Maybe it's just that I'm tired of effort in general at the moment, especially the kind of teeth-grinding effort required for self-promotion. When does it stop, the necessity to get attention? Not attention for one's self - that's irrelevant, unless you're a performer or a politician - but for the work, the offspring of one's mind.

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IMAGE THIEVES AT LARGE: BEWARE !

Guilty:

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/

fashla2002/album?.dir=/fc2fre2&.src=ph

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/fashla2002/

detail?.dir=/fc2fre2&.dnm=1dfescd.jpg

A casual look at my stats tonight made me curious about a Yahoo URL which was browsing my Paris photos. Lo and behold, a snap I took of a nude statue in the Jardin des Plantes in June 2005 is up for sale on Yahoo, part of the "photo album" of fashla2002 who, as far as I can tell, is ripping off every image they can copy from private and public sources, including museums, and blithely selling prints of them via Yahoo...

(read the rest on BLAUGUSTINE)

COME AND SEE THE SLIDE SHOW

I've just posted The God Interview pages here and also on my blip.tv page . I was going to add a soundtrack but that made the file even bigger than it is so it's a silent movie. Any animated film makers out there want to do lunch with me?

(MORE on the main Blaugustine)

COMIX THING REPORT

It went well apart from too heavy baggage and too exorbitant taxis but I sold a lot of books and met a lot of good people and was pleasantly dazed after a good day amongst the comics.

(MORE on the real Blaugustine)