Studio Log: Starweek Twenty-Six!

We've been busy the last couple of Sundays, so this is a big one!

• Studio Obsession of the Season: XENA.

We've been watching a lot of Xena... Warrior Princess.Have you heard, she was forged in the heat of battle?

Studio Event of the Season: GLEE LIVE. Nora's birthday presents from Lucy were two tickets to Glee Live (under the condition that one of the tickets would be for her). Of course, it was fantastic and ridiculous and we weren't even the oldest people there!* It was in a packed arena full of screaming nerds such as ourselves, being blown away by TV people and pyrotechnics and epic lighting and assorted types of home-made costumes.

*There were definitely some parents who were older than us. We checked.

We were right next to the teeny rear stage, where the actors would occasionally sneak-surprise us with a number about five feet from our heads. It was amazing. Look how close we were to Chris Colfer:

Our home-made T-shirts for the show, referencing this scene:

If you watch Glee, you'll know that the meaning behind these particular T-shirt phrases are coded for other actual attributes that fit us rather well. Hint: Nora's not actually Lebanese.

More Photos of the Fabulousness Here

And More Photos of our Fabulous Gleeference T-Shirts Here

• Studio Update of the Week: Here at Sowmoles! We have a "new" comic available for sale as a digital download and/or minicomic. It might look familiar to some of you... With one crucial (legal) difference.

We hope you and our good Brothers Warner like the change!

• Studio Project of the Week: Center for Cartoon Studies Pencil Cases! Designed by Lucy and printed by Nora this week.

• Studio Outing of EVERY Week: The Logan Square Farmer's Market! Every week we skip through the glorious hipster-filled morning market located in our neighborhood. Nora goes crazy buying plants for the garden and Lucy goes crazy buying food like this tiny ice-cream cone ("tea-and-cookies" flavored).

Last week we saw were trampled by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's camera crew, as Mr. Mayor wandered through the market shaking babies and kissing hands and preventing us from getting to the free samples of fancy jam. Somewhere there's probably a news feature where you can barely hear Rahm answering some constituent's question over Nora yelling "I JUST WANT SOME JAM, RAHM!" in the background. Please send a link if you find this video.

• Studio Improvement of the Week: Garden Overhaul! Nora has been toiling in the hot sun over our teeny backyard to transform it into a nice little garden space. Here's what she's done so far-- it's WORLDS away from the desert-cement of urban depression that it once was.

Lucy and Linney helped.

• Studio Drink of the Week: MOREjitos! Nora took about a metric ton of mint out of the back garden in preparation for planting a wider assortment of herbs. And since we had all this mint, plus we were on our way to see the latest Pirates spectacle at the $4 movie theater (which = RUM), there was only one thing we could do.

Smuggle mojitos into the movie in our water bottles!
Our recipe:(over ice)Muddled MintA Couple Muddled StrawberriesCoconut RumClub SodaTwo LimesOne half LemonHoney or Maple Syrup (to taste)

• Studio Jam of the Week: Vegetables! (Beach Boys Cover by Kayla Willi)

• kitty photo of the Week: Linney had to get some butthair shaved off because it was dreadlocking. Ripley HATES the new 'do. But when has Ripley really needed an excuse to chase Linney around the apartment?

The answer is NEVER.