Lost Day

Practiced today with Matt and Mike and then slept, slept hard, for five hours, and it was dark outside and I felt like I was the only person left on the planet. Fortunately Panini Panini is open until late on Sundays so I bicycled over and made a little headway into "Word Freaks" with a V8 and a couple of small but bottomless cups of coffee. There's something very unpretentious about Panini Panini that's nice, but the coffee isn't anything special.

Help!

The only place in town I could find a DVD copy of The Beatles' Help! was Facets on Fullerton. The movie is out of print, Best Buy and Target don't sell it, Blockbuster and Hollywood don't carry it. On Amazon you can get a copy for the low low price of $134.90. You'd think that for a band as popular as The Beatles finding a copy of Help! would be easy, but then you'd have another think coming.

Blah.

Practices scheduled. Bills paid. iMac dual monitored. Web hosting consolidated. Emails winnowed. Glasses fixed. CDs from Cheapo ripped to computer. Song mixed down and posted. Contact made with Chicago 24hr comic event organizer. Tired. Long work day. Must sleep.

Sunday Evening

It's only been a day I've been back and Minneapolis already feels like a long ago trip. Spent the day fighting traffic getting errands done. Went to Michelle's birthday party. Bought some groceries, spent a little time on the elliptical machine. Got my broken eyeglass frames replaced.

Another Doodle

After a couple of hours I started remembering how to cartoon with ink - it's been a good eleven years since my last intense cartooning phase (which makes me how old?):