New blog at oshell.wordpress.com

Please visit oshell.wordpress.com  to view new comics.  I am quitting blogspot cause I cant get the photos to upload.  Crazypants!  Also, I'll be at MIX on the 21st and at least wandering around SPX and handing things out.  Love!

Suicide - Ghost Rider

Having trouble uploading pics for the time being. In the meantime enjoy one of the heaviest, most brilliant groups that ever played.

This is the City

A Night Out

O'Shell

I've started working again on the memoir. Trying to get into my dad's head has been an interesting experiment.

DXing, Hobbies, and Literature

The drawing is a poster I am making for my classroom.

I've been reading about DXing lately here and like a lot of other followers of Adventures in Amplitude Modulation, I realized that something I used to do as a kid - dialing through different stations on my alarm clock radio - had a name and is more complicated than I had imagined. I noticed lately that DXing, like many other hobbies, has a lot in common with reading. In DXing, listeners tune in to obscure frequencies, logging the strength and frequency of the signal, attempt to identify its source, and hoping to locate a signal previously unheard in their area. The circumstances of the moment are also of importance: the location of the listener, the equipment being used, the state of the magnetic field, the weather, and many other factors that all come together to allow a clear signal.

I'm finding that reading for me is a similar experience. I log passages by underlining, copying into a notebook, or recording page numbers on the inside cover or on the blank end pages of the book. I hope to notice details, images, or allusions that no one else has noticed. Odd factors in my life influence what i will find. For example, I reread Ulysses last summer when we just got a new cat, and I found myself really focused on all the moments in the novel involving the Blooms's cat. I was convinced that in the Penelope section, Molly Bloom suggests that the cat is in heat. I looked online to find anyone else who had noticed this. (Now I think that it was all in my head).

I think that Nabokov approached lit in a similar way, as a hobbyist. His Lectures on Literature focus on details and images, and he is so focused on details and obscure parallels, it is almost like he is butterfly hunting. I wish that schools could approach lit in a similar way, as a hobby, rather than a launching point for essay writing or in understanding literary terminology. My ideal school would have classes on Beekeeping, lepidoptery, bicycle maintenance, chess, photography, DXing, cider brewing, and literature.

Kill

Training Day

Nice Night

this is a synthesis of a number of conversations i have with Kati. Another part of a story i have by now all but given up on.

Quit Your Job

This is a portion of a story I have been writing with lots of frustration, but it's almost done.

Graduation

Moving In With Dad

Some of this might be unclear without reading it as part of the whole memoir. Even then it's probably unclear. I had just moved back from L.A. after one miserable year and had nowhere else to go but my dad's though he and I had barely talked. I sound like a brat because I was.

Hassan the Turk

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Searching for an Apartment

Enrico Shoes

Enrico was a security guard at the restaurant I worked at in LA. Also a spiritual guide. I never got to go to church and have barbecue with him due to a rival for the interest of a girl I did not even know.

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Cup

This is a game I invented. It uses a plastic frat cup.

Neptune is a Fine Book

This is my of of my favs from SPX. His style continues to blow me away. He is I think a master of timing. Great story for kids. Two kids find a dog and escape from school. I like how the teachers are all good hearted but can't make the right decision because they are held back by their duty to the authority of the school. About time a kids' comic was worthy of From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Rocky

From memoir again, all these are. "SSR" is sustained silent reading, or sit anywhere in the classroom and read something.

Trash

This is from the memoir I've started writing.

Steph's Night Out

Rick Roderick Lectures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

These lectures have helped me to understand postmodernism better than anything else. The ones on Marcuse and Baudrillard have really changed the way that I think about the world. Can't recommend it enough.

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