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yamamanamasimplicity - in which a cockatoo poses at Falco, a volunteer tries to catch a mouse named K1 McGruff, a guinea pig gets bladder stones removed.
it was heaven sent - in which Emma does not live up to her ethnic stereotypes by hugging me twice but I live up to my ethnic stereotypes or at least half of them by telling winter to eat a big bowl of dicks.
dermatoglyphics - in which Jacob squirts bile or something while cutting up dead chicks.
wise blood - in which Emma is too busy to go to the MFA with me and I meet some Albanians and see a Klimt painting.
succor midst sorrow - in which Emma and her band perform their first ever concert which happened before the great Boston snowpocalypse of 2015 despite what she tells everyone and I am the first ever recipient of one of their CDs and then catch a bus while running to Porter before my body restores emotional equilibrium once the euphoria of dancing and goodbye hugs wear off and the cold and being stalked gets to me.
as blood - in which a rabbit is spayed on the eve of snowmageddon, and I post Emma's art.
as snow - in which I link to bands that Emma likes and we get way too much snow and I don't think I'm going to see the ground until May.
as ebony - in which I compare art by Emma to art by Molly Crabapple, a murre dies.
as holly - n which the wildlife center is inundated by murres, loons, and grebes, I clean kiddy pools and pick up grebes, do laundry, and recommend music.
amid timebound waves - in which Désirée and I discuss music and beauty standards while cleaning a tortoise enclosure, Zofia gives me advice.
encased in crystal - in which the ocean turns to grume, Emma covers her own song on guitar, I watch her and I watch her.
the waters stilled - in which I run out of cold weather music to listen to, a sign that winter has long outstayed its welcome, I dream about a poker game with the ISIS employees, discover that Papua New Guinea has the death penalty for sorcery murder, and post art by Huey.
after all the aching silence - in which I see the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a chorus of at least 150 and eight soloists perform Szymanowski's King Roger, the train crosses a frozen river, two women recite a poem, a man is dressed as the Joker, I have a "phrasing" moment
attempts to make time pass differently - In which I learn what a trust fall is, talk about languages with Jack and Emma, and comment on the Nazi manifesto and their blatant lack of Italy in their list of white nations.
abandoned cities - in which Emma asks people to fund her trip to Cyprus and make the world a better place through art but I'm disheartened that I was unable to help with it,
emotional signals are chemically encoded in tears - in Emma falls in love with someone else without knowing I was in love with her, we both decide to continue our friendship as normal, I meet a woman with green hair who felt kinda embarrassed she was listening to classical music but we talked too briefly, and I wondered if I'd see her again, I decide to pursue a relationship with my friend rather than following my friend's advice which involves moping around and feeling sorry for myself while waiting for the inevitable breakup.
il pleure (at the turn of the century) - in which I discuss my current state with Jack and Jean, Kaz plays fetch with a parrot.
echoes of the past - in which a woman reads to me as I draw her portrait, I see a Gandolfi organ and orchestra composition and Mahler's 6th symphony, and meet people who were at Bob's Burgers Live, and end everything regarding the past, present, and future on a positive note, even if I didn't burn bridges with Caitlin so much as forget where those bridges were in the first place, even if my friendship with Emma fizzled out by high summer, even if I am afraid that I wouldn't recognize Adrienne or the girl with green and strawberry blonde hair if I saw them.
distant misgivings - in which I talk about memory and impossible colors and Coach McGuirk's advice regarding women.
a little madness in the spring - in which I bring my sketchbook with me as Anime Boston is happening, see Japanese art, talk about woodblock prints with Alexandra and Italian and Cape Verdean with a man at Qdoba.
melting upwards - in which we walk Sophie and watch Bob's Burgers, I display my utter inability to remember names, and talk about the times we've mistook foreigners for locals and locals for foreigners.
hard to be a god - in which Courtney remembers me after 12 years, Amy says something that makes me feel bad for not talking to Emma, Désirée and Brody listen to Atlas Lab.
in the spring twilight - in which the wildlife center has a new volunteer named Emma, we talk about reptiles and idealism and traveling, I suggest that both Sam and Alex gave up a part of themselves to become good at music, we splint a woodcock's wing.
door slams in fourth world - in which I have to bring my winter coat back out, Emma gives us an update from Cyprus on her poorly-designed website but it doesn't matter how poorly the site is designed because the update is forever lost to the aether so talk to me if you want all the updates, and I mistake Arielle for Emma when I really want to talk about the situation in Cyprus with her.
as above, so below - in which I see colonial-era coins, bits of plaster, sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, photographs of post-tsunami Japan, and art looted by Nazis, meet a man with a collection of masks and kachinas and a woman with a maple leaf tattooed on her foot for an all-too-brief moment.
o dreams, o destinations - in which I dream, Emma wears Jasmine as a belt and shows me sculptures she did, we talk about music and art, and I learn that Cyprus has an internet cafe shortage.
spring strains - in which I play with dogs, sketch people with accents, and see Don Giovanni.
a shimmering sky - in which I make Emma's flakiness sound worse than it actually is, France grants itself surveillance powers, and we strew wood flakes along the nature trail.
the persistence of desire -in which I get a cold from Emma, the wildlife center gets baby owls, Zofia returns and mixes up the Emmas, we discuss relationships, and Shadowdancer Duskstar stumbles upon some old entries and comments and catalogues them.
The Anathēmata: a plague journal - in which I post a picture of lemurs eating a birthday cake, people at the wildlife center discuss their travel plans and get their portraits done, Shadowdancer Duskstar stalks me, I find better ways for Emma to meet Emma, Emma plays with snakes, The Fourth Republic of Madagascar eats a big jungly dick, and I make what I hope is the only comparison between Atlas Lab and Big Monster Fish Hook
sweetly the waves call to me - in which I dream, lament my inability to be in three places at once, and see art.
a service for the dead - in which Cody shares relationship advice, I feel like I go the blade runner route and Drow's followers and people stumbling upon that thread on Aff's Diary which is thankfully lost to the aether will have to contrast my humanity, where I fall in love with my friend, and Drow's single-mindedness, I meet a tetraracial woman, fail to find a book, Emma plays the song of double time and disappears, and there are at least 20 baby waterfowl.
Down to the River - in which I meet Alexa on the train, Alex sitting at a random table, Alexandra at an art gallery's booth, and Alexzandria selling her ceramics, and hear several really good bands play along with a cardboard puppet show
the sorrow of rain - in which it threatens to rain, I learn Harry's true name but since he's a human, I can't use it against him.
waiting for the summer - in which Brittney gives names to the wildlife center's resident animals despite the fact that they already have names and the mural goes on indefinite suspension.
cherryflavorburst - in which it is summer and I text notes about chameleon surgery while wearing gloves and have a conversation with Krissy about art.
vanillablue - in which I delay buying The Goblin Emperor but post some pictures anyway and conjecture on Facebook's reasons for changing the image urls.
cherrypop - in which I take photographs at the MIT museum, talk about Dali at the MFA, eat at Brookline Lunch even though Emma is no longer there, hear a conversation about Filipino cuisine.
lemondrop - in which I reveal my reasons for eating at Brookline Lunch because Emma no longer works there and Shadowdancer the Stalking Douchebag Duskstar accuses me of stalking Emma.
powderblue - in which I go to the museum of science to see butterflies and Pixar stuff and find a post about the two types of summer, neither of which seem to describe the first thirteen days of the summer of 2015, but one that I will remember as a dark summer.
bright stones and bones - in which it is my birthday, Zofia finds a fish head in a frozen mass of fish, ice, and chum, and I discuss recurring names of people in my life and the kinds of names I find memorable.
searching for friends - in which I fail to find Emma but find The Goblin Emperor and Station Eleven and admire art.
crushed by doubt - in which I hurt my abdomen, am almost peed on by a tortoise, and am incredibly nervous about seeing Gabriella two days later.
Boston melancholy - in which it rains and I don't see Gabriella but I do see a woman with blue hair and a back tattoo and discuss people's expressions with three women on the ride home, ironically making it one of the most exciting entries of the summer concert series, and realize I probably won't see Emma there.
an ending up of friends - in which I meet a doppleganger of Jessica and a blonde version of Gabriella and a dreadlocked version of Gabriella and two previous subjects, and explore rooms in the MFA I've never been in.
children of the revolution - in which I meet artists and jewelers and learn about bands from Emma and have a conversation that I swear I had on a previous summer's afternoon, possibly the same woman.
a low comedy - in which Shadowdancer Duskstar thinks Alex intervened in my friendship with Emma, and I discuss vampires and werewolves and rabies with Ayana, or maybe it was Chelsea.
bid them dance and bid them sing - in which I get lovesick over Gabriella and dance to offset that.
go starless in the night - in which I forget my pen, and hiccup during the last set.
hop skip and jump - in which I meet people with cool tattoos, a woman who looks like Shannon, and a woman who thinks that Christina Hoff Sommers is the worst, hear various performances, and learn about hedgehogs.
psychodrama - in which a thunderstorm causes me to lose sleep and I discuss the Judgment of Paris with Katie.
5:59 am - in which Julia shows me her paintings and I get whumped by Harry in Magic: The Gathering.
my endless sky - in which I meet Alison, a dancer, listen to Slowdive during a train journey, and hear the music from various 19th and 20th century ballets.
all at once - in which I see art and meet a woman with a dimetrodon pendant and a woman named Alisia and can't decide if I'm falling ill or just out of equilibrium.
future strife may be prevented now - in which I see a performance by The By And By and a performance of King Lear and try to fend off an encroaching cold with lots of lemonade ice cream and spicy chicken salads.
a culture of viruses - in which I spend an entire day at the wildlife center resting because my body can't make up its mind as to whether it feels better or just wants to piss my anima off.
Fly, thought, on golden wings - in which I see opera and set goals for myself that even I can fulfill.
tiny bright spark - in which my throat improves but I itch like fuck.
fantasies, fables, and faraway places - in which I hear music from faraway places, music based on fantasies, and music based on fables, meet a woman with a banjo who looks and dresses a bit like Gabriella and a woman with a googly eye on the back of her hat so that tigers will not sneak up on her while she sleeps.
little dreams in glass and metal - in which I post art I saw at the Fuller Craft Museum.
the swan troika - in which a swan oinks like a pig at me and Katie has an awesome idea.
to answer and resound - in which I hear music and discuss the whiteness of Armenians and Portuguese, and discuss the Lathe of Heaven with someone who picked up a Norwegian accent from summer camps.
unguarded future - in which I fall in love with Gretch's music, offer horoscopes to people going to a Pokemon tournament, and meet a Nepali woman who keeps handwritten journals.
a distant glimmer - in which I meet cosplayers and people with tattoos and musicians and a woman named Emma who just happens to know Magaggie.
radiance - in which Grace Morrison is wonderfully quirky and I hear various musicians and bands play, including a Greek ensemble, and the Sad Puppies get trounced in the Hugo Awards.
we are the dreamers of dreams - in which Emma starts keeping a dream journal but does not deign to share it with the world, but I share a dream I had about Norway becoming a Belarus-style dictatorship and a dream about purple fal'Cie.
lay down your weary tune - in which I see A Midsummer Night's Dream with the incidental music performed by an orchestra, Chelsea and I discuss art and the Simpsons and Bob's Burgers.
fate and freedom - in which I reflect on fading summer and fading friendships and share opinions on bands.
emergent evolution - in which I meet some women who know their shit about animals and wander the Harvard Museum of Natural History, contemplate eating at the place Emma works but realize I have no idea just where the fuck that place is.
The Doomherald -in which it's quiet at the wildlife center so we talk about aye-ayes and x-ray a turtle.
lights eternal - in which I check out some of Emma's work on display at Boston's city hall meet a woman who looks like Emma and we sit together at a concert and talk about art and cartoons.
after many a summer dies the swan - in which there are rumors that Kate is sick so I hold a Rick and Morty marathon to restore emotional equilibrium, Shadowdancer Duskstar goes full Nazi, some deaths occur at the wildlife center, and ISIS releases a kill list that includes places nobody has ever heard of.
full moon, empty heart - in which the boston hemp fest and the beantown jazz festival coincide and I meet and sketch a lot of interesting people as a result of this but Kate vanishes.
hereafter, and after - in which I dream about living in an old mansion and it's quiet at the wildlife center and out of the blue too is saved.
as if all time had stopped - in which I post scans of my first book of train portraits so people can observe how I've become more confident and developed my own style.
life is elsewhere - in which I see a production of La boheme set in 1968 Paris.
slightly less sunshine - in which Holly talks about the time she brought an ornate box turtle to the wildlife center and I think she's talking about George, a seagull gets some necrotic bone removed, and I rescue a spider.
objects in flux - in which I have a dream about being stuck on an endless and lonely train journey with nothing to read but Sparrowind and a textbook by Mr. Goldenfold, I meet a woman with a Siamese Dream tattoo and check out art and interact with a performance artist who was getting her hair done like one of the masks, and then go to a concert and meet a guitarist and a woman who is just barely a musician.
words unspoken - in which I neglect to say things I want to Rebecca, see paintings in a coffeehouse, see Othello, and have a conversation about pizza on the way home.
voices in an empty room - in which the quietest day yet occurs at the wildlife center so I play with Zack's new dog.
everyday life in future times - in which the Back to the Future trilogy is entirely set within the past, I carve Bob Belcher's visage into a pumpkin.
illusion - in which Kim shows up at Night of a Thousand Faces with her pet tegu and I wonder if I really did recall a detail about her life or just think I did, Kira carves the interns into a pumpkin but neglects Jacob and Zofia, somebody forgets to make spaghetti for the victim of unnecessary surgery to throw around.
disillusion - in which I describe the spooky trail, Désirée is deemed too scary for it and tells me about the time a coyote tried to scale the walls of the raptor enclosure, Tiffany recommends bands, and an identitarian stabs two people at a school in Sweden.
ending is better than mending - in which I post images of pumpkins and explain why I won't be attending any more of Atlas Lab's concerts in 2015.
borrowed lives - in which the raccoons leave us and Bethany talks about dinosaurs.
unknown color - in which I am unable to look up stuff on the endocrine system.
phantom and a rose - in which I engage in conversations about time travel, the nature of time, alternate realities, colors, and dopplegangers.
to this we've come - in which Tyler finds a woolly bear and x-rays a turtle and Breitbart says something profoundly insensitive as if in an attempt to outdo something insensitive Partisan Girl said.
aftermath, and after - in which I have dreams, buy books, read about people filling hollow bullets with mercury, Tyler shows off the animals in med ward, and a cockatoo tosses hats.
the human agent - in which Rachel tells me about the Japanese attitude towards tattoos and Russian pop culture and white people who look similar, I try to compare the two versions of Wake Up Slow but find out that Emma in her infinite wisdom made the video private and suggest either throwing a shoe and/or powdered mnar stones at her or entering her dreams and the dreams of people she dreams about until they find Scary Terry.
conspiracy theories - in which I visit the museum of fine arts, post some thoughts on the passage of time, and everyone has to get off the train before I can sketch them.
for your own safety - in which Shadowdancer decides to embrace a conspiracy theory instead of ignoring a mass shooting, people tell stories about cockatoos, and Courtney messes with Jean's phone.
war damage - in which I dream, muse about the democratic party trying to siphon away voters from Trump, dream, point out that the far right is not codependent on terrorism but is in fact codependent on the mainstream right, dream, help animals, and link to Atlas Lab's new video because the song's good even though the video isn't.
black and white - in which the curse of the twelve days of wonky roms falls upon me in the form of relationship drama, I realize that Mobile Book Fair is stuck in the past, the changing of the interns happens and a cat has a hematoma drained, and I totally blank on some stories I was going to tell.
finding beauty - in which I post scans from the train sketchbook so my viewers can see how the color of the paper changes as the sun sets and realize how many promises I made throughout the year that I never fulfilled.
the great escape - in which a hawk escapes from the flight pen, Spyro finds himself in the laundry room, the right wing creates some outrage regarding third rate banh mi.
control/alt/delete - in which I talk to various relatives about various things, mostly art, cartoons, and politics.
till the stars fall from the sky - in which the wildlife center is calm before the storms so I play with rats and help soak reptiles.
it was heaven sent - in which Emma does not live up to her ethnic stereotypes by hugging me twice but I live up to my ethnic stereotypes or at least half of them by telling winter to eat a big bowl of dicks.
dermatoglyphics - in which Jacob squirts bile or something while cutting up dead chicks.
wise blood - in which Emma is too busy to go to the MFA with me and I meet some Albanians and see a Klimt painting.
succor midst sorrow - in which Emma and her band perform their first ever concert which happened before the great Boston snowpocalypse of 2015 despite what she tells everyone and I am the first ever recipient of one of their CDs and then catch a bus while running to Porter before my body restores emotional equilibrium once the euphoria of dancing and goodbye hugs wear off and the cold and being stalked gets to me.
as blood - in which a rabbit is spayed on the eve of snowmageddon, and I post Emma's art.
as snow - in which I link to bands that Emma likes and we get way too much snow and I don't think I'm going to see the ground until May.
as ebony - in which I compare art by Emma to art by Molly Crabapple, a murre dies.
as holly - n which the wildlife center is inundated by murres, loons, and grebes, I clean kiddy pools and pick up grebes, do laundry, and recommend music.
amid timebound waves - in which Désirée and I discuss music and beauty standards while cleaning a tortoise enclosure, Zofia gives me advice.
encased in crystal - in which the ocean turns to grume, Emma covers her own song on guitar, I watch her and I watch her.
the waters stilled - in which I run out of cold weather music to listen to, a sign that winter has long outstayed its welcome, I dream about a poker game with the ISIS employees, discover that Papua New Guinea has the death penalty for sorcery murder, and post art by Huey.
after all the aching silence - in which I see the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a chorus of at least 150 and eight soloists perform Szymanowski's King Roger, the train crosses a frozen river, two women recite a poem, a man is dressed as the Joker, I have a "phrasing" moment
attempts to make time pass differently - In which I learn what a trust fall is, talk about languages with Jack and Emma, and comment on the Nazi manifesto and their blatant lack of Italy in their list of white nations.
abandoned cities - in which Emma asks people to fund her trip to Cyprus and make the world a better place through art but I'm disheartened that I was unable to help with it,
emotional signals are chemically encoded in tears - in Emma falls in love with someone else without knowing I was in love with her, we both decide to continue our friendship as normal, I meet a woman with green hair who felt kinda embarrassed she was listening to classical music but we talked too briefly, and I wondered if I'd see her again, I decide to pursue a relationship with my friend rather than following my friend's advice which involves moping around and feeling sorry for myself while waiting for the inevitable breakup.
il pleure (at the turn of the century) - in which I discuss my current state with Jack and Jean, Kaz plays fetch with a parrot.
echoes of the past - in which a woman reads to me as I draw her portrait, I see a Gandolfi organ and orchestra composition and Mahler's 6th symphony, and meet people who were at Bob's Burgers Live, and end everything regarding the past, present, and future on a positive note, even if I didn't burn bridges with Caitlin so much as forget where those bridges were in the first place, even if my friendship with Emma fizzled out by high summer, even if I am afraid that I wouldn't recognize Adrienne or the girl with green and strawberry blonde hair if I saw them.
distant misgivings - in which I talk about memory and impossible colors and Coach McGuirk's advice regarding women.
a little madness in the spring - in which I bring my sketchbook with me as Anime Boston is happening, see Japanese art, talk about woodblock prints with Alexandra and Italian and Cape Verdean with a man at Qdoba.
melting upwards - in which we walk Sophie and watch Bob's Burgers, I display my utter inability to remember names, and talk about the times we've mistook foreigners for locals and locals for foreigners.
hard to be a god - in which Courtney remembers me after 12 years, Amy says something that makes me feel bad for not talking to Emma, Désirée and Brody listen to Atlas Lab.
in the spring twilight - in which the wildlife center has a new volunteer named Emma, we talk about reptiles and idealism and traveling, I suggest that both Sam and Alex gave up a part of themselves to become good at music, we splint a woodcock's wing.
door slams in fourth world - in which I have to bring my winter coat back out, Emma gives us an update from Cyprus on her poorly-designed website but it doesn't matter how poorly the site is designed because the update is forever lost to the aether so talk to me if you want all the updates, and I mistake Arielle for Emma when I really want to talk about the situation in Cyprus with her.
as above, so below - in which I see colonial-era coins, bits of plaster, sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, photographs of post-tsunami Japan, and art looted by Nazis, meet a man with a collection of masks and kachinas and a woman with a maple leaf tattooed on her foot for an all-too-brief moment.
o dreams, o destinations - in which I dream, Emma wears Jasmine as a belt and shows me sculptures she did, we talk about music and art, and I learn that Cyprus has an internet cafe shortage.
spring strains - in which I play with dogs, sketch people with accents, and see Don Giovanni.
a shimmering sky - in which I make Emma's flakiness sound worse than it actually is, France grants itself surveillance powers, and we strew wood flakes along the nature trail.
the persistence of desire -in which I get a cold from Emma, the wildlife center gets baby owls, Zofia returns and mixes up the Emmas, we discuss relationships, and Shadowdancer Duskstar stumbles upon some old entries and comments and catalogues them.
The Anathēmata: a plague journal - in which I post a picture of lemurs eating a birthday cake, people at the wildlife center discuss their travel plans and get their portraits done, Shadowdancer Duskstar stalks me, I find better ways for Emma to meet Emma, Emma plays with snakes, The Fourth Republic of Madagascar eats a big jungly dick, and I make what I hope is the only comparison between Atlas Lab and Big Monster Fish Hook
sweetly the waves call to me - in which I dream, lament my inability to be in three places at once, and see art.
a service for the dead - in which Cody shares relationship advice, I feel like I go the blade runner route and Drow's followers and people stumbling upon that thread on Aff's Diary which is thankfully lost to the aether will have to contrast my humanity, where I fall in love with my friend, and Drow's single-mindedness, I meet a tetraracial woman, fail to find a book, Emma plays the song of double time and disappears, and there are at least 20 baby waterfowl.
Down to the River - in which I meet Alexa on the train, Alex sitting at a random table, Alexandra at an art gallery's booth, and Alexzandria selling her ceramics, and hear several really good bands play along with a cardboard puppet show
the sorrow of rain - in which it threatens to rain, I learn Harry's true name but since he's a human, I can't use it against him.
waiting for the summer - in which Brittney gives names to the wildlife center's resident animals despite the fact that they already have names and the mural goes on indefinite suspension.
cherryflavorburst - in which it is summer and I text notes about chameleon surgery while wearing gloves and have a conversation with Krissy about art.
vanillablue - in which I delay buying The Goblin Emperor but post some pictures anyway and conjecture on Facebook's reasons for changing the image urls.
cherrypop - in which I take photographs at the MIT museum, talk about Dali at the MFA, eat at Brookline Lunch even though Emma is no longer there, hear a conversation about Filipino cuisine.
lemondrop - in which I reveal my reasons for eating at Brookline Lunch because Emma no longer works there and Shadowdancer the Stalking Douchebag Duskstar accuses me of stalking Emma.
powderblue - in which I go to the museum of science to see butterflies and Pixar stuff and find a post about the two types of summer, neither of which seem to describe the first thirteen days of the summer of 2015, but one that I will remember as a dark summer.
bright stones and bones - in which it is my birthday, Zofia finds a fish head in a frozen mass of fish, ice, and chum, and I discuss recurring names of people in my life and the kinds of names I find memorable.
searching for friends - in which I fail to find Emma but find The Goblin Emperor and Station Eleven and admire art.
crushed by doubt - in which I hurt my abdomen, am almost peed on by a tortoise, and am incredibly nervous about seeing Gabriella two days later.
Boston melancholy - in which it rains and I don't see Gabriella but I do see a woman with blue hair and a back tattoo and discuss people's expressions with three women on the ride home, ironically making it one of the most exciting entries of the summer concert series, and realize I probably won't see Emma there.
an ending up of friends - in which I meet a doppleganger of Jessica and a blonde version of Gabriella and a dreadlocked version of Gabriella and two previous subjects, and explore rooms in the MFA I've never been in.
children of the revolution - in which I meet artists and jewelers and learn about bands from Emma and have a conversation that I swear I had on a previous summer's afternoon, possibly the same woman.
a low comedy - in which Shadowdancer Duskstar thinks Alex intervened in my friendship with Emma, and I discuss vampires and werewolves and rabies with Ayana, or maybe it was Chelsea.
bid them dance and bid them sing - in which I get lovesick over Gabriella and dance to offset that.
go starless in the night - in which I forget my pen, and hiccup during the last set.
hop skip and jump - in which I meet people with cool tattoos, a woman who looks like Shannon, and a woman who thinks that Christina Hoff Sommers is the worst, hear various performances, and learn about hedgehogs.
psychodrama - in which a thunderstorm causes me to lose sleep and I discuss the Judgment of Paris with Katie.
5:59 am - in which Julia shows me her paintings and I get whumped by Harry in Magic: The Gathering.
my endless sky - in which I meet Alison, a dancer, listen to Slowdive during a train journey, and hear the music from various 19th and 20th century ballets.
all at once - in which I see art and meet a woman with a dimetrodon pendant and a woman named Alisia and can't decide if I'm falling ill or just out of equilibrium.
future strife may be prevented now - in which I see a performance by The By And By and a performance of King Lear and try to fend off an encroaching cold with lots of lemonade ice cream and spicy chicken salads.
a culture of viruses - in which I spend an entire day at the wildlife center resting because my body can't make up its mind as to whether it feels better or just wants to piss my anima off.
Fly, thought, on golden wings - in which I see opera and set goals for myself that even I can fulfill.
tiny bright spark - in which my throat improves but I itch like fuck.
fantasies, fables, and faraway places - in which I hear music from faraway places, music based on fantasies, and music based on fables, meet a woman with a banjo who looks and dresses a bit like Gabriella and a woman with a googly eye on the back of her hat so that tigers will not sneak up on her while she sleeps.
little dreams in glass and metal - in which I post art I saw at the Fuller Craft Museum.
the swan troika - in which a swan oinks like a pig at me and Katie has an awesome idea.
to answer and resound - in which I hear music and discuss the whiteness of Armenians and Portuguese, and discuss the Lathe of Heaven with someone who picked up a Norwegian accent from summer camps.
unguarded future - in which I fall in love with Gretch's music, offer horoscopes to people going to a Pokemon tournament, and meet a Nepali woman who keeps handwritten journals.
a distant glimmer - in which I meet cosplayers and people with tattoos and musicians and a woman named Emma who just happens to know Magaggie.
radiance - in which Grace Morrison is wonderfully quirky and I hear various musicians and bands play, including a Greek ensemble, and the Sad Puppies get trounced in the Hugo Awards.
we are the dreamers of dreams - in which Emma starts keeping a dream journal but does not deign to share it with the world, but I share a dream I had about Norway becoming a Belarus-style dictatorship and a dream about purple fal'Cie.
lay down your weary tune - in which I see A Midsummer Night's Dream with the incidental music performed by an orchestra, Chelsea and I discuss art and the Simpsons and Bob's Burgers.
fate and freedom - in which I reflect on fading summer and fading friendships and share opinions on bands.
emergent evolution - in which I meet some women who know their shit about animals and wander the Harvard Museum of Natural History, contemplate eating at the place Emma works but realize I have no idea just where the fuck that place is.
The Doomherald -in which it's quiet at the wildlife center so we talk about aye-ayes and x-ray a turtle.
lights eternal - in which I check out some of Emma's work on display at Boston's city hall meet a woman who looks like Emma and we sit together at a concert and talk about art and cartoons.
after many a summer dies the swan - in which there are rumors that Kate is sick so I hold a Rick and Morty marathon to restore emotional equilibrium, Shadowdancer Duskstar goes full Nazi, some deaths occur at the wildlife center, and ISIS releases a kill list that includes places nobody has ever heard of.
full moon, empty heart - in which the boston hemp fest and the beantown jazz festival coincide and I meet and sketch a lot of interesting people as a result of this but Kate vanishes.
hereafter, and after - in which I dream about living in an old mansion and it's quiet at the wildlife center and out of the blue too is saved.
as if all time had stopped - in which I post scans of my first book of train portraits so people can observe how I've become more confident and developed my own style.
life is elsewhere - in which I see a production of La boheme set in 1968 Paris.
slightly less sunshine - in which Holly talks about the time she brought an ornate box turtle to the wildlife center and I think she's talking about George, a seagull gets some necrotic bone removed, and I rescue a spider.
objects in flux - in which I have a dream about being stuck on an endless and lonely train journey with nothing to read but Sparrowind and a textbook by Mr. Goldenfold, I meet a woman with a Siamese Dream tattoo and check out art and interact with a performance artist who was getting her hair done like one of the masks, and then go to a concert and meet a guitarist and a woman who is just barely a musician.
words unspoken - in which I neglect to say things I want to Rebecca, see paintings in a coffeehouse, see Othello, and have a conversation about pizza on the way home.
voices in an empty room - in which the quietest day yet occurs at the wildlife center so I play with Zack's new dog.
everyday life in future times - in which the Back to the Future trilogy is entirely set within the past, I carve Bob Belcher's visage into a pumpkin.
illusion - in which Kim shows up at Night of a Thousand Faces with her pet tegu and I wonder if I really did recall a detail about her life or just think I did, Kira carves the interns into a pumpkin but neglects Jacob and Zofia, somebody forgets to make spaghetti for the victim of unnecessary surgery to throw around.
disillusion - in which I describe the spooky trail, Désirée is deemed too scary for it and tells me about the time a coyote tried to scale the walls of the raptor enclosure, Tiffany recommends bands, and an identitarian stabs two people at a school in Sweden.
ending is better than mending - in which I post images of pumpkins and explain why I won't be attending any more of Atlas Lab's concerts in 2015.
borrowed lives - in which the raccoons leave us and Bethany talks about dinosaurs.
unknown color - in which I am unable to look up stuff on the endocrine system.
phantom and a rose - in which I engage in conversations about time travel, the nature of time, alternate realities, colors, and dopplegangers.
to this we've come - in which Tyler finds a woolly bear and x-rays a turtle and Breitbart says something profoundly insensitive as if in an attempt to outdo something insensitive Partisan Girl said.
aftermath, and after - in which I have dreams, buy books, read about people filling hollow bullets with mercury, Tyler shows off the animals in med ward, and a cockatoo tosses hats.
the human agent - in which Rachel tells me about the Japanese attitude towards tattoos and Russian pop culture and white people who look similar, I try to compare the two versions of Wake Up Slow but find out that Emma in her infinite wisdom made the video private and suggest either throwing a shoe and/or powdered mnar stones at her or entering her dreams and the dreams of people she dreams about until they find Scary Terry.
conspiracy theories - in which I visit the museum of fine arts, post some thoughts on the passage of time, and everyone has to get off the train before I can sketch them.
for your own safety - in which Shadowdancer decides to embrace a conspiracy theory instead of ignoring a mass shooting, people tell stories about cockatoos, and Courtney messes with Jean's phone.
war damage - in which I dream, muse about the democratic party trying to siphon away voters from Trump, dream, point out that the far right is not codependent on terrorism but is in fact codependent on the mainstream right, dream, help animals, and link to Atlas Lab's new video because the song's good even though the video isn't.
black and white - in which the curse of the twelve days of wonky roms falls upon me in the form of relationship drama, I realize that Mobile Book Fair is stuck in the past, the changing of the interns happens and a cat has a hematoma drained, and I totally blank on some stories I was going to tell.
finding beauty - in which I post scans from the train sketchbook so my viewers can see how the color of the paper changes as the sun sets and realize how many promises I made throughout the year that I never fulfilled.
the great escape - in which a hawk escapes from the flight pen, Spyro finds himself in the laundry room, the right wing creates some outrage regarding third rate banh mi.
control/alt/delete - in which I talk to various relatives about various things, mostly art, cartoons, and politics.
till the stars fall from the sky - in which the wildlife center is calm before the storms so I play with rats and help soak reptiles.
