October 2007

I thought I’d share a sketch I just um, sketched. It’s a cartoon of a kid reading a book. You might notice that I draw in ballpoint pen. This isn’t a “command of the medium” thing. It’s more of a too lazy to sharpen a pencil sort of thing mixed up with bad habits from…

It’s time for confession and internet-style public embarrassment again. For all my amateurish advice on reading well, mostly cribbed from recollections of Mortimer Adler in How To Read, you’d think I’d have the basic technique down. You know, of reading. Unfortunately, I don’t. Nope, not me. I read books the wrong way. Or at least,…

“Here, you should read this book.” It’s hard to refuse reading a book when someone says something like this to you. You know, where they stop you and say this, not actually having the book in their hand and go off to hunt for it. What are you supposed to do? Say no? No. You’ve…