Hello! The first month of 2025 is nearly over and I kept forgetting to write something.
Work has been relentless since Halloween, and while it showed signs of slowing down last week, that hasn’t really been the case so far this week. I’ve been getting yelled at by clients more frequently this month too. David Lynch, one of our greatest filmmakers, artists, and weirdos, is dead, leaving a huge hole in the universe. A new fascist administration has moved in and made transgender folks and people of color their obvious targets with horrific executive orders. Meta and TikTok are marching in step, licking boots before the inauguration even happened. I’m overwhelmed and tired and annoyed, but I know we have to endure.
I’ve mostly just been trying to relax when I can and find things to enjoy, and this month has been full of that: I took a day off with Ashley last week and we got new library cards and tried an incredible Korean restaurant, I dug through boxes of 50 cent comics with a friend in the back of the local library, ate ramen and played games with my best friend and his wife, celebrated another friend’s 40th birthday, and after a long hiatus got to meet and move my body with my Embodied dance group. My figure drawing group had a little snowy meetup in a friend’s cozy home, exchanging art and drawing.
And of course I’ve been slowly working on art as I can, primarily with Pouncepunk in mind since it begins next Saturday. I have three pieces done for it, and hope to do one or two more before the first. It will continue to be on Instagram despite, well, everything, but I’ll be posting my pieces elsewhere too. I know some friends participating in the Meta boycott this week and while I am not, nor do I plan on deleting my Facebook or Instagram just yet, I did remove Facebook itself from my phone and that’s been quite nice!
All the while I’m also trying to work out what I REALLY want to do and what I CAN do, for myself and for others. The answer currently is a vague “not much,” which isn’t satisfactory. But we’ll get there, hopefully. Right now I think just getting more rest and spending more time with friends and in solitude will help, along with seeing what others are doing.
I’ve been buying so many comics these last few months and have a huge stack I’m slowly going through, about an issue a night before bed. Mostly Daredevils I’m trying to read in chronological order. I checked out the final two volumes of Delicious in Dungeon, and I’m on the final chapter now and I’m a little sad for it to be over because it’s so damn good. I’m also reading Annabella Pollen’s book Nudism in a Cold Climate, which I’m greatly enjoying. Ashley got me watching the latest season of Queer Eye, which is incredibly sweet and emotional, and I’m trying to finish season 3 of Daredevil so that I can also watch Echo before Born Again comes out. As for movies, I’ve mostly been rewatching things for comfort: Doris Wishman’s nudist films, Unashamed: A Romance, Shin Kamen Rider, I Saw the TV Glow, Godzilla Vs Megalon, etc. I think my review of Nude on the Moon goes up tomorrow on Planet Nude, and I’ve got some other reviews that I’ve been working on as well.
Alright, work is about to start so that’s it. Take care and look out for each other.