Listened to the audiobook of GaryVee's Crush It and a 1-hour freestyle by Juice WRLD over Eminem beats on Westwood. Watched Harry Potter 4 with my parents and sister last night and thought it must be the best one, and Ebert seems to agree.

I intend to make a comic of the Harry Potter series. Oh the work! The environments, the magic, the clothes. Can't just rip from the movies. If you're gonna do a comic it had better be something new. It deserves to exist. A fully-realized underground HP comic.

Meanwhile the people I went to school with are buying houses and getting married and having kids.

In Crush It! Gary says the center of your business is your blog. Your blog is the central place to create buy-in, and your social media posts should playfully link to it. He says you have to stare at the screen until your eyes bleed if you want to build a competitive business through social media. I don't wanna do that because I'm afraid of ruining my eyes and not being able to draw. I already don't read and draw in one day because that's too much of a strain. Gary says spend years building a network by blogging about your passion, tweeting from the blogs, and engaging with other people on the platform in an unselfish way, and then when you've got a bunch of people's attention, reach out to advertisers.

Maybe. Tomorrow I'm back in the dish pit.

Juice WRLD, what a trip. A modern Cobain/Hendrix/Winehouse. Imagine being so good at something you flame out early and it's actually glorious. But that's selfish, insensitive thinking.

I emailed Mr. Vaynerchuk to ask if I could draw a comic book / NFT collection for him about his VeeFriends. I want it to be a Mr. Men-like series of short stories, featuring Amiable Anchovy, Gary Bee, Flex Fox, Genuine Giraffe, Likable Leopard, Forever Phoenix and Podcast Panther. Man, that would be fun. Of course, I don't know anything about making money in this way. But maybe, like I've heard him say, I'm just early in the process.