Mortimer Snerd speaks

Bush Says He Answered All Questions from 9/11 Panel:

"If we had something to hide we wouldn't have met with them in the first place. We answered all their question. I came away good about the session because I wanted them to know how I set strategy, how we run the White House, how we deal with threats," Bush said.

Books and sketching

My current project at work seems about finished. I may have some more images to clean up tomorrow, or I may not. Shouldn’t be a problem, though. There are more projects after this one.

After work I plopped myself down in Bryant Park and did some sketching, but nothing particularly good. (The sketch here is a woman sitting next to me on the PATH trip home.) I tried that lovely brushpen I got a few weeks back, and it still dries out real quick, and it doesn’t seem to fill up very well. Shame, because it’s got a great point.

The park closed at 7, so I stopped off at Coliseum Books and found a couple of things I’d been looking for. One was a paperback copy of Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon, which I’ve had an inexplicable urge to read for the past few weeks. The other was Cartooning the Head & Figure by Jack Hamm, which Carla Speed McNeil recommended. I skimmed through it on the way home, and it looks like one of the best cartooning references I’ve ever seen.