FAVORITE POSTS: I DONE BEEN TAGGED

I ~~usually~~ almost always ignore these things, but Tim tagged me, and I really like Tim and don’t want to let him down, and lord knows I don’t have any NEW content, so:

Go back through your archives and post the links to your five favorite blog posts that you’ve written. But there is a catch:
Link 1 must be about family.
Link 2 must be about friends.
Link 3 must be about yourself, who you are… what you’re all about.
Link 4 must be about something you love.
Link 5 can be about anything you choose.

Post your five links and then tag five other people.

These aren’t my “all-time” favorites, but they’re some decent ones. Here goes:

	FAMILY: A TIME MACHINE STUCK ON REPEAT Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 My grandmother’s 80th birthday. A trip to Salem, Ohio. Family slides, deja vu, and memories of things that never happened. Moments flickered on the edges of my sight that never happened. A life that was never lived. It was something like the opposite of deja vu: what I was seeing in front of me triggered memories that had never existed.
	FRIENDS: CAT POWER OUTAGE Sunday, October 16th, 2005 My buddy Nathaniel, who was going to UVA at the time, tells a great story about going to see Chan Marshall live in Charlottesville, Virginia. A few minutes later, she muttered something about the KKK, claimed she felt “this weird energy,” and literally RAN off stage.
	MYSELF: IT’S JUST A SERIES OF GAG STRIPS WRITTEN IN A SECRET CODE Saturday, June 24th, 2006 The first post where I tried to articulate my thought that an artist’s job is to create his own “secret code.” People talk about voice and style, and I have no clue what they’re talking about. “Find your voice!” they say. Screw that. I’m working on my secret code. Other related posts: THESE CODED DRAWINGS ARE REALLY MY JOURNALS MORE THOUGHTS ON MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF GAG STRIPS
	SOMETHING I LOVE: DRAWING THAT SIGNIFICANT OTHER (SCENES OF DOMESTIC BLISS) Monday, October 1st, 2007 I really love drawing my wife. She’s the perfect model: she’s beautiful, she doesn’t complain, and she’s always around. This post has examples of other cartoonists drawing their significant others. More drawings of my wife:
	ANYTHING I WANT: PROCESS: MY COVER FOR HAWKLINE’S UPCOMING EP, “SHIPWRECK” Friday, July 27th, 2007 This was a really fun project to work on, and I think it gives a really accurate, honest portrait of how I work. I tend to look at everything through the medium of collage: all we’re really doing with art is taking things that we’ve seen and making something we can call our own. Borrowing. Stealing. Mixing. We take the words we know and put them into sentences. We take the notes we know and put them into melodies. We take the experiences we have and shape them into stories.

Okay, I spent way too much time on that. This trip down memory lane is over (thank God). I guess I’ll tag Mark, Maureen, Darby, James, and Adam.

Comments

Tim says

Monday, January 14, 2008 at 8:12 pm

Cool! Thanks for playing!
Maureen McQ says

Monday, January 14, 2008 at 10:48 pm

Damn you, Austin! I’m out of town for the next couple of days, but when I come back, I’ve been tagged.

Maybe dinner next week–unexpected business trip this week. but next week when you come you can meet the new dog!
austin says

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 8:43 am

Sounds excellent, Maureen!
Darby says

Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 10:35 pm

Oh Blimey. I totally missed I was tagged. I’ll get on that.