Okay, first off, I suck.  I suck in a way that has never sucked before.  I am the Dyson vacuum cleaner of suck.  Why?  First of all, for all of my talk, I never did get anything done with my Hairbat reboot.  I can't even say it was for a lack of trying. 

What trying?  I was too busy to try.  Seriously.  You'd think that by getting only four hours of sleep every night that I'd have something to show for my time other than dark bags under my eyes.  But that's not true in the grander scheme of things--just where Hairbat--and this website--are concerned.

Anyone that has read this blog will know that fatherhood agrees with me in a big, big way.  And it still does.  So that's second of all.  Being a parent has defied any and all expectations.

Third of all, my greeting card biz is doing very well.  One can now find Melancholy Greetings in six locations, five of which are in NYC.  So that's pretty major.

Hairbat, however--well, that's available in exactly zero locations (that I know of).  Unless you count eBay vendors.  Really--go check it out, I'll wait.

Okay, so a few things to cover before I sign off:

One: I recently cleaned out my stuff from a storage facility in Rockland County.  I found a lot of stuff I'd either forgotten about or feared lost in one of my many moves.  Found tons of notebooks and sketchbooks, and a lot of artwork from my RISD days.  Surprisingly, little of what I found from my youth was embarrassing to me as one who is rapidly approaching middle age. 

Of course, I still have TONS of Hairbat back issues, though not all of them have fared well during the last 15 years.  I guess you could say that this picture sums up Hairbat's current overall state quite well.  (The damage is not nearly as bad as what is pictured here.)  I literally have hundreds and hundreds of back issues--all in the boxes that shipped directly from the printers.  Still, it doesn't mean that throwing away these wasted issues wasn't sobering or depressing.

Two: and speaking of depressing, my greeting card sales have been good--definitely better than last year's numbers.  And I am hoping to best this year's numbers twelve months from now.  Anything is possible, right?

Three: I have a super-secret project in the works.  Shhh.

Four: I just started my two-week vacation, so expect some more updates to the site, including my long-overdue review of Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  (Spoiler Alert: It sucked harder than a Dyson.)