The painting on the left is by Doug West. I think it is titled Taos. It was used in the poster for the Music from Angel Fire festival sometime in the 1980s. I bought the poster in Santa Fe back then.
The photo on the right is what my poster looks like today. It has never been in a lot of direct sunlight, but it gets some. The reds are all gone. The large words below the illustration ("Doug West" and "Angel Fire") are completely invisible now.
The front and back covers of ZAP Comix #13
(by Victor Moscoso)
I bought ZAP Comix #13 in June 1994, probably in San Francisco, and got autographs from most of the cartoonists. I forgot all about the autographs until I was looking at the comic the other day!
On the front cover, Gilbert Shelton's autograph is in the lower left corner, vertically sideways. Robert Williams' personalized autograph is in the bottom center. (Victor Moscoso's signature (bottom right) is not an autograph; he's the cover artist and that's his pre-printed signature. He did autograph my copy on the inside. See below.)
On the inside cover, S. Clay Wilson's personalized and dated signature is across the top margin of the page.
On the first page, both Spain [Rodriguez] and Victor Moscoso signed along the right-hand margin of the page.
(Index of autographs)
Roz Chast spoke at the Los Angeles Central Library last night as part of their Aloud series. I always enjoy her New Yorker cartoons. I sometimes post them on Facebook.
I had seen almost every cartoon she used during her talk, but she also spoke about her background and especially her life in New York.
She had some hilarious things to say about standpipes, too. That minute and a half of her talk begins about 39 minutes into her talk. Unfortunately, that link is only audio, no visuals, so here are three pages of standpipes from her Going Into Town (click to enlarge each image):
(Index of autographs)
(Follow-up to: previously...)
Two months later than I expected, the feds did finally get to my fiance visa application. But at the end of last week, I saw that I was being sent an RFE ("Request For Additional Evidence"). It arrived yesterday. They now want two additional items:
1. Although I included a statement about our intent to marry, they want a statement from Victor about that as well. I've asked Victor to do that, but it will likely take another week for his signed statement to reach me.
2. Although I included plenty of statements and photos showing that we have been physically together repeatedly, they want some sort of outside-party proof of that, like airline ticket stubs ― who keeps those?? fewer flights now even use them! ― or passport stamps. I'll send some barely legible passport stamps and United Airlines records of some of my flights. I thought for sure they would have a complete record of every time I re-entered the U.S. from Mexico! Silly me!
Apparently, an RFE will usually delay the next steps by about three weeks. I still think Victor will get here, but it may not happen this year after all. Sigh.
In 2008, the Mormon church and the Catholic church poured time, effort, and tons of money into stopping same-sex marriage in California. Irrationally, they feared that the mere existence of same-sex marriage in the state would greatly harm them.
Now, equally irrationally, I devoutly (!) wish their fears were true.
John Dean spoke about Watergate at Occidental today. The room was packed.
I bought one of his books a couple of days ahead of time and got his autograph before he spoke. I haven't yet read the book.
(Index of autographs)
