even though my blog has a current readership of, like, two (2), i'd like to go ahead and put a plug out there for comics world singapore, which is not only wonderful but now also the only show in town for "western" comics since comics mart shut down. of course, my standard have been lowered a fair bit by living near probably the only comic book store in the world to not actually sell any comics at all.

Peter Brooks, Professor at Yale, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative:

Our lives are ceaselessly intertwined with narrative, with the stories that we tell and hear told, those we dream or imagine or would like to tell, all of which are reworked in that story of our own lives that we narrate to ourselves in an episodic, sometimes semiconscious, but virtually unlimited monologue. We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed.