Category Archives: other stuff

polar vortex special, part 2

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Pam Bliss

They used to call it a “cold snap”, or tell us, in the voice of sage old sayings that “as the days begin to lengthen, the cold begins to strengthen”.  As February nears and the sap starts to rise in … Continue reading →

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news from the far side, plus not-a-haiku

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Pam Bliss

Rovers/ planetokhody are our science jam around here, and we can only blame the holidays (and their aftermath) for the delay in mentioning that China’s second Jade Rabbit (Yutu) rover is rocking around the Far Side of the Moon and … Continue reading →

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zebra philosophy

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Pam Bliss

I think we all sometimes feel like the only zebra on a colorful cosmic carousel where everyone else is a horse. And art is the funhouse mirror that lets a zebra look at its own tail.

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from the garage sale notebook

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Pam Bliss

Did the neighborhood garage sales/ found this in my notebook afterward. Gourds painted to look like apples. Apples painted to look like gourds? Not one of the Deeper Questions of the Universe, but it’ll do.

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best of the drawing of the day: lizbet, ron, and humberto

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Pam Bliss

Three characters in search of a story.  I’m kind of distracted by the most major of major new projects (the initial training of our latest corgi, the Floofy One, aka The Martian) so it will take a while to get … Continue reading →

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hulk go “small press and alternative comics expo”

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Pam Bliss

Big room full comics: Man in hat draw Hulk picture. Use “artistic license”. Today’s Hulk-ku (a real proper one this time) was inspired by this years SPACE show, another wonderful gathering of the small press clans presided over, as always, … Continue reading →

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antelopia– squares, and a quiz

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Pam Bliss

A tour of the photo archives takes us once again through the fringes of Antelopia, my ongoing project where I photograph every antelope I can find.  Due to the fact that Northwest Indiana is not prime antelope habitat (not recently, … Continue reading →

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good bye to the little black car

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Pam Bliss

Many of you knew our little black car. It was a 1996 Geo Prizm, twin to the Toyota Corolla Sprinter, built in the NUMMI plant in California during the height of the “captive import” craze. We were its second owners, … Continue reading →

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it’s inktober!

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Pam Bliss

Inktober Day Three: Poison.  It’s up to you whether you think that some of the refreshments on offer are slightly toxic. Or maybe “Poison” is the name of the Horrible Creature on the left. Inktober began a couple of days … Continue reading →

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distraction: a toy camera

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Pam Bliss

Every photographer should have a toy camera.  The combination of a low fi plastic lens, minimal controls, and no way to review the images on the spot means there’s nothing much to do except see potential photographs in the scenes … Continue reading →

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