on May 19, 2017
A lovely woman gave me her daughter’s ticket to Nick Bollinger when it was supposedly full.
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on May 17, 2017
Jennifer Niven, James Shapiro, Ivan Coyote and Francis Hardinge at AWF 2017.
I missed the first half of Jennifer Niven’s talk and then really gave her a zombie face. I promise she isn’t a zombie.
Ivan Coyote is cool.
on May 17, 2017
More drawing heads in the dark. Floating, incomplete heads. Like a bad imitation Star Wars poster, without a lightsaber focal point.
You’d think, considering I saw the most of MC, Michelle A’Court, that I would have captured her better. Instead, I became mesmerised by the beautiful comic book certainty her hair had under lights and drew her twice.
The consequence of the nominees reading their work is everybody is looking down and, in the case of some, are more hair than face. The consequence of two minute readings is that my drawings are missing skulls where their heads met the dark and are undressed. Now, if the consequence was them undressing, that would be more interesting.
I have taken students to Julie Arliss’ conferences for the last few years. I don’t always agree with all of the underlying premises but there is always something to think about. 
on May 5, 2017
Today I learned that a felt tip pen and a piece of already-photocopied-on paper is good enough for taking notes.
