One can't have it both ways and...

This is a really good read, I recommend it and well as her other books.

Started Spring Semester on Monday and it's shaping up to be an excellent one!

Cupid, Draw Back Your Bow and Let Your Arrow Flow

... straight to my lover's heart, for me.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

"Cupid" by Sam Cooke

And for you folksy types: a folksy version by Colin Meloy and Laura Gibson. This is the version I saw at the "Colin Meloy Sings Live" concert in Somerville two springs ago, it was excellent and we got to meet them afterward, they were really nice.

Subway Dogs

It's true.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a for-real Pentel Pocket Brush Pen after several months of believing I already had one when I really had this.

I am dangerously in love, it's like it was designed specifically for moleskines, it's ridiculous.

Here are some star trek doodles I did testing it on my sketch paper.

They all look like creeps.

"Black Orpheus"

Wow, I am way behind on this. Embarassing...

"Six Movies" Project: Black Orpheus by Marcel Camus (1959)

A modern re-telling of the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth set in Rio de Janeiro at the start of the Carnival festival.

Final Piece:

My scanner didn't pick up a lot of the very light blues but it still looks o.k. I'm not that good with watercolors but every once in a while I decide to pick it up again. This came out not as good as I would have hoped but still much better than it could have been. I had a good time none the less.

Next time: The Virgin Spring