robot comic!

Decided to take a break from the daily comics and make a more detailed one. Still based on real-life thoughts (my overactive imagination when it comes to technology), here's the final product:

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living, comically

So thanks to an online comic strip recommendation (thanks KC!) I've started a new little project. The comic, American Elf, is a daily thing done by artist James Kochalka that chronicles his everyday life. Family, friends, and his hometown of Burlington, Vermont are featured in the drawings. I'm still kind of adjusting the punchline-less quality of most of them, as his tidbits from daily activities are usually nothing stellar. It's this banality that actually makes his stuff intriguing, in a weird sort of way. After all, life isn't scripted and not every day is exciting or unusual. I'm trying to embrace American Elf's style by starting my own very simple comic journal/sketchbook, which I'm calling "Living, Comically." It's been a neat way to record some of the small moments of each day, and I have a feeling it'll be entertaining to look back on if I actually keep it up (check out a sample below!). Recording life in pictures is fun. Try it!

vertigo from a great height

Watched Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo" on the roof of an apartment around Central Square. This shot doesn't quite capture it, but there were beautiful views of the Boston skyline and bats swooping overhead later in the night.

technologically-challenged

After my visit home, I thought I had brought everything back with me to Somerville. A few days later, my phone battery started dying and I realized I had left my phone charger in Central Massachusetts. FML.

I'm currently (and temporarily) using a Verizon LG model so old that the woman on the phone who helped me program it with my current number jokingly bragged that "one of the newest features on that phone is gray-scale graphics!" Great. It takes me about 10 minutes to type out a text on this thing, the screen is green-tinted, and there is no small screen on the flip cover to check the time. I'm going to try to pretend that it's vintage. Or hipster. Or something. That's right, decade-old phones are so in right now.

Hey, at least I'm not carrying around one of these babies:

the most boring place

Visited home early this week-yup, in good old Upton, Massachusetts. Once upon a time we were voted the Most Boring Town in Massachusetts by KISS 108 Radio. It's true, we're pretty out in the boonies with a population of just over 6,500. My high school resembles a very large barn, and so did the Italian restaurant I worked at for a few years. As much as I complain about there being nothing to do out in Upton (aside from the surviving drive-in movie theater...which is technically the next town over) I thought I'd throw in some photos that show the beauty in this "most boring place."

I've also realized that when I take the train home from Boston, I make the conscious decision to sit so that I'm facing the opposite way of the train's movement. It feels like I'm literally going backwards in time. It puts me in a nostalgic mindset, and I kind of like that.

sun, surf, and sculptures

Got to check out the Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Competition on Saturday with a friend. The artists got lucky with the weather-it was a beautiful (but sticky) day, and the place was packed with people. My favorite was definitely the "Mirror" one, with two people and what I suppose was a cracked mirror. It's pictured here, along with some other shots I took. Still have to make it one more stop to Wonderland, the T-stop at the end of the Blue Line. But I'll save that pilgrimage for another day.