Liveblogging The Halloween

7:41 local time. Down to 14 pieces of candy. Started with a bag of Almond Joys, a bag of Snickers, a bag of Kit Kats, and a bag of Nestlé Crunch.

And they just. Keep. Coming.

time for your lobotomy, Jack

Some pix Bram took tonight of me carving our Jack o'Lantern.






He's teeeethy!

Why Does Santa Fe Look the Way it Does?

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Santa Fe's historic-design ordinance. The Santa Fe New Mexican has a couple articles about it.

Another 24 Hour Comics Day Over

We've spent this weekend at the 24 Hour Comics Day event at True Believers. 24 Hour Comics Day is really a pretty amazing event — growing out of an idea from Scott McCloud, it's grown into an international event that really goes beyond making comics to a celebration of (and a challenge to) creativity.

We weren't participating as such, we were acting as, one of the artists characterized me as, a sort of "maitre' d". Helping out wherever possible, trying to cheer folks on (being, I fear, bit too sarcastic), documenting the whole thing. Enjoying that True Believers seemed to tolerate customers viewing us as authority figures. We showed up yesterday afternoon around 3:00 (three hours after their start time), sticking around into the night; we went home to sleep, but returned with bagels by 8:00 this morning.

It's pretty amazing to see what this day brings out in people. We had a few participants from 7000 BC, but also some local students just giving it a shot (from elementary school to college), others who had wanted to try for a time, one guy who wasn't doing comics but needed the kick to start his project. It's an inspiring thing, to see creators diving in and giving it a go.

Not going to go into it too much; was blogging the whole thing at the 24 Hour Comics Blog — where you can see our entries here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here — though I recommend you spend some time with the rest from across the world.

Two more fun things. Poualie started out working on a luchadore per hour, but moved on to another project. He was good enough to give us his first.



And David stopped by to hang out for a bit, doing, unbeknownst to me, a Dürer-style sketch while just standing around.

Autumn

Right around Labor Day, the weather took a decidedly autumnal turn. And then it really came on hard for the rest of the month, and then really for October. We've seen some 60°-ish days, nights have been near freezing (below freezing up in Taos). The other morning, the mountains were socked in, and when the clouds cleared, there was a dusting of snow up there. Yesterday was a beautiful day, today's a little rougher. Looking at temperatures in the 50s today, below 30s tonight.

All sorts of stuff going on, so we didn't make it up to the mountains for the leaves; hopefully M+D will have a report from their hike up at Aspen Vista. We watched the aspens change from down in town. And on our little tree out back (above).

Update: M's posted some photos.