Hi, Myth-Makers & Risk Takers!
What’s the most difficult question you had to face this week? For me, it was when my son asked which time travel movie is better, Back to the Future or Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. I love both of those movies so much, I didn’t know how to answer him.
life without detours
only means living someone
else’s plan for you
Instead of an essay today, here is one of the strangest sonnets I’ve ever written.
Electric Love Story
Dancing in the rain when lightning struck home
Lit you up like a s’more dropped in the fire
Ran to your side, sparks fizzing off your dome
You glanced down and mumbled, “I’m a liar.”
I stared bewildered, then clocked what you meant
And wrapped my arms around your trunk, tight, tight
You smelled like a fry left in a car vent
Poor soul, I’ve always known—you’re mine tonight
Your strange incognito identity
Works on those on the outside of us two
I know all eight of your hearts beat for me
Our love is unlawful, more than taboo
Let’s run away where our love has no price
To some strange new world, I hear Earth is nice
Artist Note
This is another comic for my book, A Totally Inadequate Guide to Adulting. (See the Commerical Note below to see why this book is not being delayed until the end of the year.) I had to break the laws of physics for this comic. I wanted to show the passing of time with the sun, but there aren’t any places on Earth where the sunrise and sunset are in the same direction as hinted it in these panels. Good thing poetry and comics aren’t meant to be literal!
Commercial Note
The plan for the past year has been to release A Totally Inadequate Guide to Adulting in late May. When Becky first got sick last fall, I was able to keep the project on track. When she had two surgeries scheduled a month apart starting in February, I adjusted some things and kept the project on track. When Becky was hospitalized with a MRSA infection for a week after her second surgery, I pushed back the launch date by two weeks.
While she is finally returning to full health, she still has lots of follow-up appointments she still has a drain attached to her abdomen and a PICC line in her vein for home-administered IV antibiotics. I never got back on schedule after the hospital stay. Because of the nature of the book, May is the best time to launch it. If I pushed it back until later in the summer I don’t think it would land as well. The second best launch window for Adulting is the Christmas season. I don’t want to rush the book, and I want it to have the best chance of finding an audience. So I am pushing back publication until the fourth quarter.
However, the good news is that means I can push forward another project I’ve been working on. It will launch in early summer, and I will have more details in the coming weeks.
The book delay is disappointing. However, I’m grateful to have the flexibility in my work to live life and support my family when crazy things like antibiotic-resistant infections strike.
Be the weird you want to see in the world!
Cheers,
Jason