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I'm waiting to hear back from the art director on the latest version of a cover I am working on--I always think they will get back to me in a couple of hours, because the old art director was BAM "OK, we need you to lighten this and move the type over here," sometimes within minutes, so the whole cover from start to finish would take less than a week. Now, with the new world order, it can take a week just to get an interim version approved. Half the time I can't remember what I was doing..."there was a file? What was it called?" because so much time has passed and other projects and crisis domestique have intervened. But I was hoping we'd be done by five tomorrow, so instead of washing the kitchen floor I painted up the Ken head, into what has to be the strangest faceup I have ever done. I am not sure I like it, but at the same time it's so weird it's kind of interesting. And I invested way too much time hand-placing individual clumps of eyelas...

Along with all this other dollie goodness, tygati sent over a Loongsoul Ken head. The mailman, who coincidentally is named Ken, brought the box yesterday and said "I assume a head." And of course he was right, but it's odd that he would remember these things! My hope is to make a budget version of GongGong the Loongsoul merman ; but Ken, who has a sly, humorous face that reminds me a little of the Immortality of Soul "M" (who I also like, but have never gotten around to buying) is happy to be a Merman; but for some reason you cannot be a Merman in this house without being Ethel. I blame the "Show Business" song, which K once sang to me in the car, with all the words, at age 10. Also, possibly because he used to live at tygati's house, he wants a purple wig (everyone over there is very colorful) The only purple wig I have here is a ludicrous butterfly samurai one, as seen here: So there is going to be some negotiating here as to the styling of...