* I love these practical advice posts from Johanna Draper Carlson. I find that most of the PR I get has what I would think of as missing information, although the primary thing that always seems lacking to me is a link to the information I'm receiving posted at their own site -- I think of that as essential post about 2004 or so, although I guess maybe we're on the other side of that being a necessity.
* finally, Sean Kleefeld writes about moving on from a life of small-town small-mindedness and the role that comics had to play in kind of wedging open that door for him.