Loved this track.

This album was pretty great too.

Anyway, I’ll be at NYCC in October. I’m working on a number of new projects, they’ll seriously kick ass; I promise. I don’t think I’ll have anything new by NYCC but I’ll have some announcements around that time. Anyway, keep on keeping on or something.

Yes please!

Belle and Sebastian – Belle and Sebastian Write about Love (new album / video) < PopMatters.

YouTube – Hooked On Comix Volume 2.

Right, I’ll be at Wizard World Chicago in August and I’ll have these two beauties for sale! I think I’ll only sell them as a set, it seems a shame to break up a pair. That or the first like 10 sets will be reserved for buying both and the numbers after that can go splitsville. Also, I’ll have my minicomic 0101010ve as well as the anthologies Readling With Pictures and Sequential Suicide! Yay, products!

I think I’ll have prints of the 0101010ve cover as well, because, well, it’s snazzy. Probably sans logo. The heart graphic will probably be larger as well.

Oh, and yes I am still running. Not barefoot anymore though. I’m shod. I wear either Newton Galaxy’s (for street) or New Balance MT100’s (for trail). I’ll probably be replacing the Newtons with another shoe, they’re just too expensive. Think I’ll try the Kinvara by Soucany. I run anywhere from 10 to 20 miles a week now. The last few weeks have been low mileage though. But last Saturday I ran a 2 mile race at about 9:30 a mile. That’s really quite fast for me! I finished in 19:02, got fourth in my age group (yay for shallow fields!)

Right, if you want any of these prints you can email me at the link on this page and I’ll see what I can do. They’ll be signed and run either 10 a piece or 18 for the Sandman set and say.. 26$ for all three? We’ll go with that.

On a better note, I RAN MY FIRST 3 MILE STRETCH TODAY! Technically it was 3.24 miles, which means it was a little more than a 5k. This is good. I think I could have gone farther, I was feeling pretty damn good that last mile. On top of that it only took me 12 minutes over my average 2 mile time of 29 minutes. So, it seems, I’m actually faster per mile on a longer run. Go me! Distance is what I’m working on anyway (specifically marathons and ultras somewhere down the line)

I’ve actually been running everyday for the past week. At least two miles per day. This level of activity makes me tremendously happy. I’ll be honest, when I started this several months ago I never thought I’d get this far. I have a horrible habit of going all in and then quickly dropping things. Running feels different now. It’s no longer something I’m forcing myself to do, it’s something I get to do. I sit in meetings thinking about how far I’m going to run that night. It’s a reward now, and that’s awesome.

It’s also started to change the way I think. The first time you push your body to run a certain distance that you’ve yet to achieve is a magical experience. It’s transformative. When that finish line comes into site and you know you’re about to do something you’ve never done before, that you’ve pushed yourself farther than you ever have before, anything seems possible.

I’m not looking at anything the same.

I’ve struggled with crippling insecurity most of my life. A soul sucking pessimism that’s crippled so many areas of my life. Therapy helped a lot. Running has helped more. 

When I look at the wreck I was just 4 or 5 months ago I realize how much of my life I wasted on insecurity and just how false it was. I’m now 100% sure that if there’s anything I want to do I can make it happen, it’s all just putting one foot in front of another.

So how’d it go the first day? Well, I’m tired. That’s not surprising, I didn’t go to bed until 11:30 or so last night. I did end up wavering in and out of consciousness for about 20 minutes after my alarm went off. So technically I got up at 5:20ish.  Oh well, I should do better tomorrow.

Good news is, I did get a run in! 2 miles this morning at 6:30. That was nice and I subsequently felt great most of the day. I also got most of the lettering done on a page this morning before work. So, all in all, a productive morning!

Well, I don’t have much else to say. Maybe more tomorrow when I’m less sleepy.