http://staceyearley.com/journal Thoughts and news from Stacey Earley, Chicago-based illustrator and book artist. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:57:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FYI for anyone who actually visits this page looking for updates… One of the reasons I never use this is that the comments feature is impossible. It doesn’t weed spam–either I ban comments altogether, or allow them and delete a hundred spam per day with a feature that doesn’t allow ... http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=139 Oh, Facebook, you have stolen me away. It’s so much easier to blog a few sentences every hour or so and have guaranteed interactive readers. Ah well. Back from a couple weeks out west, one spent kicking around Vegas and LA with my gentleman friend Paul, and one spent ... http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=138 Oh my, it’s been awhile. I’ve fallen into the vortex of Facebook, where sporadic updates to a captive audience have supplanted blogging. Much art news in early 2009. First, I’ve illustrated another book. This one is published by BBC History Magazine (UK only) and presents a bunch of hilarious history ... http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=137 That’s the name of a Neko Case song about how art (read:song) can accompany you through your life. Or something like that. I mistrust the tendency to take life guidance from art. Maybe that’s because when I was a kid I had a serious Marcia Brady-wish, and ... http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=135 Last Saturday I answered a call to help John Greenfield move his apartment via bike. Here are the movers, in the alley behind his house. We had eight trailers, I think, ranging from my little Action Packer to Steve’s 6-foot Bikes At Work trailer, which can (and did) haul up ... http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=134 Marco took this nice picture. Note: I am not actually suckling the puppy. http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=133 …when riding a fixed-gear. Actually, the skirt was form fitting so not a problem at all, and the boots lace so high that there was no danger of the laces getting caught in the drivetrain. Toe cages weren’t really made for jackboots, though, maybe. I like this one. I look ... http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=132 Visited my friends Diane and Marco in Taos last week. Diane has a fucking brain tumor (more about that later) and there were many logistics in operation. But there was also plenty of beauty at which to marvel, and the whole New Mexico vibe to rock to: they ... http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=131 Check out this bike that the friendly neighborhood crackhead sold me for $10. It has a totally homebrewed front end, solid rubber tires and humongous spokes. Vern thinks it was used to haul a wheelchair. What do you think? http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=130 Well, that didn’t take long. Mere weeks ago I was proclaiming my love for gears and joking about “fixie freaks.” But one or two sentences in defense of fixed-gear riding from Alex, along with this passage from Sheldon Brown’s site, was all it took to convince me to convert the ... http://staceyearley.com/journal/?p=129