WaffleDevoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.Feral return and art swap- February 25, 2008 As you'll have seen by now, Feral has returned as promised, and the surprise I had in store was an art swap with Aggie of American Gothic, she of the recent fan arts and the many side comics relating to the Crossover Wars. For the next few weeks, Aggie will be drawing my scripts for Feral and I'll be drawing American Gothic. Both comics will update weekly - less than they used to, but more often than they have lately. We're both using the opportunity to overcome creative blockage, and having a..http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002181.html Essential reading for aspiring freelancers: John Scalzi's unasked-for advice about money- February 24, 2008 John Scalzi has a great post up in which he gives Unasked-For Advice to New Writers about Money. Read it if you're in any free-lance profession, and read the comments and the Follow-up post as well (via). You'll thank him, and his commenters, later.http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002180.html Feral to return as a weekly comic on February 25- February 22, 2008 This is going to come out of left field, but... Feral will resume publication on Monday, February 25, as a weekly comic, on all the websites it is shown on. There'll be some other changes as well, but you'll see that when you see that. I'd been delaying the post in which I explained that waiting for Feral or any of my other comics to return would be hazardous to people's health, with deadlines pushed back to July or even September, and excuses ranging from the pressure of my day job, to my...http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002179.html Why the Muslim hordes aren't going to overrun us, and other stuff- February 21, 2008 From a very link-rich post at A Fistful of Euros focused on telling us who the people are that make such dire predictions of European demographic collapse and where there funding comes from, comes this long post from 2004 clarifying some demographic trends among muslim immigrant communities in France, particularly that the fertility rates in these communities are falling and will fall further. I argued the same point privately a couple of days ago but didn't have a source ready. The AFOE...http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002178.html On bookshelves, book lice and book hoarding- February 16, 2008 From the "Dude, I wish I had your problems" files: Martin Wisse: On bookshelves: It's that perennial middle class literary question: should your bookshelves accurately reflect what you read, or should it have the books read by the kind of person you would like to, as Ezra suggests: Bookshelves are not for displaying books you've read -- those books go in your office, or near your bed, or on your Facebook profile. Rather, the books on your shelves are there to convey the type of...http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/002177.html |