Dear Abbott

Favorite AFTER this animated gif that is! Whoa.

well there's not much we can do to censor z's book, but we'll totally make a censored version for your parents, abbs!!

aww that is a nice offer! But you don't have to do that because I relish hiding my life from them!

a few people that picked it up at the zine show we went to in december said something to the effect of, "that's horrible!" when looking at the cover. in my mind, i was like, "fuck you."

lol awesome

Ha, I have something measurably worse planned for the next cover.

i just reread my last post and realized that it could totally become the title of an excelsior thread.

and also - i can't wait to see it!

(abbott's next book, not my post becoming the title of an excelsior thread)

abbott's book is teh awesome, i envy her crosshatching skills like crazy

Kind words from a kind person. We should have a crosshatching party. I will teach you like all two of my crosshatching tips.

'first you draw a line, and then you draw another line!'

http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Personal/Hobbies/Comics/Nancy/3Rocks.gif

oO0

http://i.imgur.com/XBABl.gif

I want to hug that dream!

Alternately I want to make this knitting pattern of it but with a cuter :3 face and a lil chef hat

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2007/2451579995_3dc409422c_z.jpg

lolz all round

abbottttt u r a traet

thank you gbx!

Dear Abbbbbbbotttttt,

1. Do you think I've given my cat one million kisses by this point? He's around 12yo.

2. Here's a video of The Sylvers performing "Hot Line" on Soul Train. I'm assuming you'll like it. Do you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo2hCfHxBcE

3. What do you think of the fact that in The Sylvers' "Boogie Fever," the backup Sylvers sing "Pizza Parlor!" immediately after the lead sings "I took my baby to the pizza parlor"? Here's another Soul Train vid for clarification (see 1:04):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPueR6rkkX4

4. Do you think Charlie Sheen has ever heard of Joy Division?

5. Do cats sometimes think we're immature?

xokjb

Dearest Kevin!

1. Over 12 years (exactly), a million kisses would be an average of 228 kisses a day. So I would say you have probably kissed your kitty at least 1.5 million times. It is impossible not to kiss a kitty 400x daily if you are friends and it will let you!

2. Yes! It is like a junior high version of "Sex Over The Phone".

3. Clearly the pizza parlor is frigging important! BTW these outfits are amazing.

4. Yes but I don't think he cares about them very much.

5. I think cats think we're really fussy and hypomanic about unimportant shit. I mean, I feel that way about humans, and I am one of them. I don't spend 23.5 hours a day not giving a fuck like cats do. They probably think we also don't spend enough time killing birds. So, yes.

Thanks as ever for the quality questions, Kevin!

Did you know my favorite thing in pop music is when a little sound effect sums up the content of every line of the song? See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKyXA_nMVQ&feature=related

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkXV5O5GfJ8

Thanx for the answers, Abb! But I don't get it. What are the sound effects in question in those two songs? Is it the whistle in "Caribbean Queen"?

The whistle, the tiger growl, the disco lazers after "electric eyes that you can't ignore." In Smiling Faces: "beware of the handshake/that hides a snake" *snake rattle* "beware of the pat on the back" *claps like a frigging back pat* maybe not after every line but after enough of them! That is what 'pizza parlor' reminded me of.

Interesting!~

Even when it is not a literal sound effect it is some musical flourish that is communicating in response to whatever they just sang.

Ah gotcha. Was looking for something more constant. Fun!!

I can dig it.

Dear Abbott.

When is it appropriate to give someone the business?

Yours,
R.V.W.

Where you at?

ILX sabbaticals are pretty swell, folks. I'm a long way from taking one again, but having done it before, I'd recommend it to everybody.

I'm just picturing Abboott running wild in Pittsburgh or Wheeling with abandon, drinking liquor and dancing with unmarried men in taverns. She'll back to the village before too long, dying our vestments black while the menfolk raise the barns.

In the meantime, you're missed. Let us know when you're on Google+.

:(

In the meantime, you're missed.

DOn't be sad, be happy.

^^ignore this disgustig advuce

I hate to see sad ZS sad for snything other than like just classic depressio on tha rocks tho.

:)

\(^o^)/

sup abbott

woohoo, hi abbbbbottttt!

classic depressio on tha rocks

yah, fortunately i've been doing my best to steer away from the depressio for a while, seems to be working, sorta.

i wasn't sure if you were taking a break from ilx or if you were done done.

Yeah it's a break so I can focus on making shitty art while I kick ass at life. But today is fucking around day so it's a break from the break.

what kind of art have you been making? i've seen the stuff on yr facebook, but do you have anything else cooking?

I just steamed some bao!
And I am working on...some other stuff! I feel like if I tell, I won't finish it.

ha, yeah i understand. better than what i've working on, which is...uh...er...oh. hmm.

hi Abbott

enjoy being away again after today

She's back! However briefly. :-) I missed me the Abbott.

abbott! i have around 9 hours to kill in el paso next week and was thinking of bailing and going up to las cruces. good idea?

bad idea.

if yr gonna go to the land of enchantment, go to the fe imo