A tumbleweed floats past

Okay, it's been a while. But hey, I actually have a decent excuse this time: the backlight on my laptop has become inoperative, which drastically curtailed any internet timewasting (I'm hoping to get it fixed in the next few days and return to blogging on the regular). So what have I been doing in the meantime? I saw the otherworldly Sun Ra Arkestra (about which more later); I conducted this long interview with organizers of clandestine Toronto series Extermination Music Night, who're holding a fundraiser tonight; I moved. There's more catching-up to do (still want to respond to Tom Spurgeon's comics-collection meme), but the first thing I write about is probably going to be this Lynda Barry/Chip Kidd panel - and punctually!