[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-stuart-making-tea":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stu_tea_portrait-8719f03946.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLast night Stuart and I had a much-needed cosy evening in, where he sat on the sofa and read \u003Ci>David Copperfield\u003C/i> and I pottered about nearby and painted this little picture of him. It's very simple, but it really looks like Stuart to me. Unlike me, he's definitely a morning person and he has a very strict routine he cheerfully follows every morning, involving a two-course breakfast (porridge and a banana for the first course, tea and toast for the second, the only variation being whether he has marmalade or honey on his toast). It's very comforting and endearing, unless we're late for something, because nothing short of nuclear war would rush him in it. (I made a couple comics about it ages ago, but I still like them: my \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/setforth1.html\">mole comic\u003C/a> and the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/75201.html\">hourly comic\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\nAnd another lovely thing, this book of poetry by \u003Ca href=\"http://dlasky.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">dlasky\u003C/a> fought it's way valiantly through the postal strike, \u003Ci>The Catalog of Exceptionally Rare Comic Books\u003C/i>. It's a collection of verses about completely obscure comics that might have been made, beautifully imaginative and such a cosy read. \u003Cb>Thank you, David Lasky!!\u003C/b> I love books and exhibitions about stories that might have been, like the 'well of lost plots' in the \u003Ci>Thursday Next\u003C/i> series by \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde\">Jasper Fforde\u003C/a>, which I found hugely entertaining. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/laskyrare-2b056d3f73.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>It's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/festival/program09/\">Comica\u003C/a> season again!\u003C/b> Last year's festival in London was brilliant (you can see my posts about it \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/comica\">here\u003C/a>). Matt Badham interviews organiser Paul Gravett about it on \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/comics-are-everywhere-a-conversation-with-paul-gravett/\">the FPI blog here\u003C/a>. Which tickets are you going to book? If you have kids aged between 4-11, book them in to draw to music with me for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/festival/festival_detail/little_pencil_sarah_mcintyre/\">Little Pencil event\u003C/a> at the \u003Cb>Institute of Contemporary Arts on Friday, 6 Nov from 4:30-6:30\u003C/b>.\\r\n\\r\nOo, and \u003Ca href=\"http://daveshelton.blogspot.com/2009/10/competition-time.html\">can you guess the number of pens in Dave Shelton's house?\u003C/a>","2009-10-30T09:42:00.000Z","stuart-making-tea",[],"stuart making tea",1776628733511]