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Feeling a lack of focus. I started this blog because I enjoyed reading others. There are a hell of a lot of blogs out there. For a while, it was daunting, because who has time to read it all, or wants to add to the clamour?

The blogs I liked reading had lots of links and pictures. I've been reading about alternative comics, and cheesy entertainment fandom. I open up two browers: one, Mozilla Firefox, because it's more compatible with the posting system here, and lets you do more, and the other, Opera, because I have a lot of bookmarks there. I write this in the box in firefox, and cut and paste links from opera, doing little appropriate HTML operations as I go.

Anyhow, one thing professionals who blog do (and which annoys me) is talk about all the cool projects they are doing. I'm annoyed because I haven't reached that level of productivity. Still, there are a lot of things happening for, but on the usual low level. Nothing done for free, but not making a ton a money, the way the Lord of the Rings thing was supposed to, but didn't.

So, at the moment I'm:

• writing up pitches for new documentary projects (way behind on this)
• doing cute animal drawings for a neighbour who wants to produce a board game (haven't even started this)
• Doing an illustration drawing for The McGill Reporter (nice this is happening again, though they take a long time to process their cheques)
• Being an extra for a film again (I thought I could leave this kind of work behind when I became a big deal film writer! But the quick money is too tempting.)
• not painting my apartment, as I promised (feel guilty about this)
• futzing with the new website, trying to animate the tail of a cat who will sit on top of a fridge (this will look great whenever I get it done)

Wow, that looks like a lot. And here I am, typing this. Have I just annoyed anyone like me, who might be reading this? As I said, not the stuff I find interesting, or was intending to do, but there it is. I thought it was going to be more about comics and kstches. But so far, sort of an art critique, and a book review. And now my to-do list, which I should be doing, instead of typing here.

I had intended to talk about the writer WG Sebald, whose books I've been enchanted by all summer, but for now, I'll just leave a link, where a lot of other people talk about him, and say most of what I wanted to say, anyhow. [Sebald Symposium]