A scrap of paper I’ve been doodling on all week. You may notice both Batman and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle; Clave says I always find a way to fit them into any doodle, even if they’re almost hiding in this one. There’s also a new character here: Mat Cauthon, AKA “The Gambler,” from Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time fantasy series, which I’ve been listening to lately as audio books on my iPod. I don’t enjoy Jordan’s work as much as I do George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire (which will hopefully be an amazing new show on HBO very, very soon), but I’m not quite part of the group that artist and writer Abby Goldsmith describes as “[…] bitter ex-fans who continue to buy each new volume because they’re hopelessly addicted,” either. For example, although the series can be quite boring and silly at times, I was frustrated to discover yesterday, halfway through Crossroads of Twilight, that I’m missing the whole middle section of the book! Somehow the files were lost while uploading the CDs to iTunes, or never uploaded in the first place. As Mat himself would say, “Light burn me!”. 2008.