[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-german-women-totally-rock":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I'm going over to Viviane Schwarz's to do some figure drawing this afternoon, so I will post some thing from that later. But Viv just posted this link on Twitter and it had me in hysterics. It just wouldn't be the same in French.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>vivschwarz\u003C/b>: \u003Ci>My dad sometimes warns me not to turn into this lady. I wish! He just means the makeup, sadly\u003C/i>\\r\n\u003Cb>gnorthfield@vivschwarz\u003C/b>: \u003Ci>Holy cow. she's gone mad.\u003C/i>\\r\n\u003Cb>vivschwarz@gnorthfield\u003C/b>: \u003Ci>No no, she's meant to be like that. She's a national treasure.\u003C/i>\\r\n\u003Cb>gnorthfield@vivschwarz\u003C/b>: \u003Ci>I think that's probably the best vocal ending to a song I've ever heard.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"52\"/>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>garenewing@gnorthfield @vivschwarz @jabberworks:\u003C/b> \u003Ci>That Nina Hagen vid is fabulous. Have you seen the brilliant \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuSrsGzhD9U\">Klaus Nomi?\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI just came back from visiting my editor and designer at Scholastic, where I got to see my picture book printed up for the first time! I was very nervous, because you never know how these things will look, but it looked better than I thought it might, such relief! The colours were a bit light, but they're used to that, and the printers are going to go back and adjust them, so it's all good. And I forgot to paint one tiny thing, so I'm going to go do that now. Now I know the launch date is \u003Cb>May 1st, 2010\u003C/b>, no one go away then, I'm going to make cupcakes or something! (I'll learn how to make them properly this time.)\\r\n\\r\nOn the way back hom, I treated myself to the Jamaican equivalent of a bento box at the new local takeaway cafe/bakery. I didn't know what to order, but the nice lady behind the counter picked out a great lunch for me, and I tell you, there's nothing like curried goat and red rice with beans to make a cold grey day feel a little warmer. It's really tasty! (Sorry, vegetarians.)","2009-06-05T12:24:00.000Z","german-women-totally-rock",[],"german women totally rock",1776628732665]