Ooh, as soon as we hit that spring solstice, I definitely felt a shift in my perspective. A spring-inspired spring in my step usually also inspires a springy desire to change colors and bloom. After several months of my dark-haired incognito look, I went to my beloved stylist Bobby, pointed at my head, and said, "bleach it all out." I decided to cut off about five inches too. Because my hair had been dyed dark purple for so long, all that built up color wasn't actually coming completely out, even with two rounds of bleach, so we ended up using that to our advantage. Why succumb to tragic brassiness when you could instead actually embrace and enhance the brassiness in order to achieve one of several iconic '90s looks?


Table of contents:

1. What's new on the blog
2. Elsewhere
3. "Wichita Lineman": The 2017 Covers Series
4. Reiki Master Attunement

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What's new on the blog

This month on Queen of Peaches I reminisce about my (literally) early days working the 4-6 am shift at Indiana University's student-run radio station.

"I dutifully filled out the form applying for my own show and indicated that I’d also be happy to be part of the committee who would review incoming CDs. (That job mostly entailed listening to music and then noting which songs were interesting and cool and worth listening to, but also, crucially, which contained swear words that couldn’t be broadcast on the air.) I, like the asshole English major I was, corrected a bunch of typos on the intake form. Despite being that girl, when the station manager sent out assignments subsequently, he granted me a two-hour on-air placement—which he took the liberty of dubbing 'The Grammar Rodeo.' (It was literally years before I found out that that was actually a Simpsons reference.)"

Click here to read the rest.

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Elsewhere

For the month of March, I've been participating in blogger Gala Darling's Instagram challenge #marchismagical. Here's a selection of what I've been sharing:
Click through to my Instagram profile if you'd like to see more!

In March, I also had the great pleasure of meeting (and sharing baklava with!!) legendary comics herstorian Trina Robbins. She was in town to give a talk on women, culture, and comics at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum and I was lucky to be there in the first row as she told stories about Jill Elgin, Barbara Hall, Lily Renee, and other women artists who worked in the comics industry in the 1940s. She was a great help to Brian while he was doing research for Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia, so we offered to take her out for some tea and drive her back to her hotel after her talk. We were accompanied by comics scholars Gene Kannenberg Jr. and Sean Kleefeld, and as Brian put it, "Dinner conversation ranged from Wonder Woman and Robert Kanigher to [C.C] Beck and [Otto] Binder. But, mostly, we talked about Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, the magic of cat yronwode, and our cats."

And speaking of Brian and his book, he's been super busy recording interviews, giving talks, and updating his blog with all kinds of fascinating information. Here's some of the recent highlights:

• Episode 539 of the Deconstructing Comics podcast
• An interview on the Comics Alternative podcast
• Some information on this week's talks at Harper College and UConn-Waterbury

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