List #3

3a: 2007

1. Remember
2. Smoke
3. Revelation
4. Work
5. Grace
6. Waiting
7. Insomnia
8. Voyeur
9. Butterfly
10. Reunion

3b: 2008 - 2009

1. Untitled
2. Aubade
3. Gravity
4. Prayer
5. Homecoming
6. Night
7. Drowning
8. Home
9. Sonnet
10. Sleep

~ The Virginia Quarterly Review

List #2

The Sown Men
see myth of Cadmus

Echion / Ekhion: "[son] of the viper (echis)"
Udaeus / Oudaios: "the black one" or "the infernal one" (?)
Chthonius / Khthonios: "of the earth (underground)"
Hyperenor: "over, above" + "a man"
Pelorus / Peloros: "giant" or "big man"

List #1

Fiction

a. Features

• Character
• Incident
• Linguistic invention

b. Tension

• Social strivings
• Existential strivings
• Sexual strivings
• Political strivings

c. Payoff

• Humor
• Pathos
• Mystery
• Surprise

Photo by Helquin.

Where to Begin

"...[I]t was only when I sweated my way into it that I realized one of the most fundamental rules of comics storytelling: start the story as late as possible."
~ Mark Waid at Kung Fu Monkey

Music #6

"Soulshake," Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson

"I Wanna Be A Flintstone," The Screaming Blue Messiahs

"Friends," Whodini