Instagram Refresh

Refreshing the connection between my Instagram (“free”) and Squarespace Blog (~$300/year)

Look at How Beautiful Things Used To Be

BLOGGER ERA DESIGN. I don’t even know if, when I clicked on the email, I clicked on spam, but I was stopped in my tracks, I gasped, I was struck dumb, etc., by what was on the screen before me, what a beautifully designed web page! Was this the golden era of design? Ha ha I’m joking. Anyway I searched and not even Reddit had anything about a "Blogger legacy claim spam” or scam, yet the URL was weird: it ended in a “dot g.” I don’t want to write it out…it was fishy.

O, tell me, will the Substacks become the Blogsnarks, and the TikToks the Yahoos, as we slowly adjust our climate control and grocery shopping habits, as we raise our grandkids? As we log into our MyCharts? We have some secret Yahoo email accounts, we have some secret Twitters. Will we keep them up, will they be entered into our legacy? our “If I die, here are my passwords?” Burn it all in the yard, all the letters, is probably best, if you’re worried about it. Will the Archies bleed into the Love and Rockets, the Mickeys into the Spongebobs? What will become of Bart Simpson, O Death? We click away, our nation turns its lonely eyes to shadow work, to breathwork, to our anger management class workbook.

 

Xmas Wish - Everyone Stays Alive

Working on my Christmas List, what a world. I wish all the children could live together, etc. This is what I want: Ivory 11x17, like 20 lb, (preferably 24 lb. but good luck) paper, though honestly I’ll take it at any weight. You’re not supposed to ask for business supplies, or something? I don’t understand how it works, and as I get older I get more and more confused what for what, not that, that is good to ask for. Socks, ties, new portable computers. These aren’t business supplies, this is what I do to stay alive. “But that’s just me.” If you would like to donate to the Fielder Media Paper Fund this holiday season, here is a (link). Though, honestly, I’ll be fine. How are you? Have a blessed winter, or summer.

Recent Reading

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F e-zine October 2023

Can be obtained from here (link) by subscribers. 64 pages, sketchbook-heavy, but also there’s some “Comics College Chicago” (handouts for students in my class at SAIC) and new comics pages, etc.

 

Forget the whole thing

Where is the Center?

Is blogging the thing, or making .pdfs, making “electronic magazines?” Why don’t I publish them also on the blog? Does anyone read the blog anymore? I don’t check the stats (“mental health reasons”) but maybe I should? First thing in the morning, what do I do? What should I do? What do I want to do? What do I have to do…I thought “I’ll dig into the Fblog folder and publish the oldest thing in the folder.”

agh, pictures of envelopes

I thought it might be making these zines and sending them out to subscribers. Simple, right? I can make a great minicomic in my sleep. Then the proliferations and implications start to pile up…envelopes, wait for the shipment, stuffing envelope party, can you do next Tuesday? check the postage, venmo the Shipstation money, track down the addresses of the subscribers who keep getting their mail returned…Actually all the money gets spent, there’s not really any profit, hmmm. Not good at math. Meanwhile, I should work on some new pages…Is this helping dismantle the homeless oil climate structure? Sure is warmer and warmer, decade by decade. Check the internet and see who died. See which events are coming up.

 

Desk Jacket Movie

found this file I made, though I don’t remember why I made it, and now I’m uploading it here as an experiment

 

Recommended & Reposting

Chris Cilla, from his daily patreon strips.

 
 

Tiny Tim (via Ken Parille)

 
 

various images grabbed from various Facebooks


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Heads

Heads drawn in my sketchbook while eating at Lou Malnati’s back when Dash and Sammy were in town, back in May.