[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-aleksandra-and-some-fine-proverbs":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I started today with a walk and coffee with my friend Aleksandra and made a sketch of her:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/aleksandra-6362514a48.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'm just working like a crazy person on a picture book due at the end of the month, so I'm a bit at a loss of what to post, other than whinging about my the bristles coming out of my brushes and other such thrilling subject matter. So I will post a link to comics artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.willowdawson.com\">Willow Dawson\u003C/a>, whose work I want to go back and explore when I have a moment. \\r\n\\r\nAnd here are some words of wisdom I discovered deep within my soul, after staying up too late on Twitter. (See \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23badproverbs\">#badproverbs\u003C/a> for at least a thousand more by other people who have achieved a similar state of bliss.) \\r\n\\r\n* Don't bite off more than you can fit in your car.\\r\n\\r\n* Life is like a camel wedged between a rock and a hard place.\\r\n\\r\n* Sincerity begins with a smile for everyone and with hearty encouragement for those who are toiling.\\r\n\\r\n* Blood is thicker than lemonade.\\r\n\\r\n* Dead men tell no lies, but deader men just lie there.\\r\n\\r\n* Trust not an Englishman to the wisdom of proverbs, trust him only to fall on the just and the unjust alike.\\r\n\\r\n* Change your lightbulb lest it change you first.\\r\n\\r\n* People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw their clothes off without checking to see if the neighbours are looking.\\r\n\\r\n* Charity begins at home but valour only starts in the garage.\\r\n\\r\n* Ponder the absence of noodles to make chicken soup for the soul.\\r\n\\r\n* The sparrow of morning calls to the crow of bedtime and the hound of darkness howls to the poodle of dawn.\\r\n\\r\n(Feel free to comment with your own earth-shaking insights, they might keep me going today.)","2009-07-30T09:54:00.000Z","aleksandra-and-some-fine-proverbs",[],"aleksandra, and some fine proverbs",1776628733004]