{"id":460,"date":"2008-01-21T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2008\/01\/21\/on-mondays-i-never-go-to-work\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T10:15:00","slug":"on-mondays-i-never-go-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"On Mondays I Never Go to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gareth has been working from home since last March, when he left his day job in the video game industry with the goal of illustrating full-time. Since then he’s been reveling in the joys of self-employment, as many artists and writers do when they aren’t bemoaning the cost of single-payer health care, worrying about the source of their next paycheck, or missing the company of others engaged in similar work.<\/p>\n

Last week Gareth e-mailed me to announce that he’d found his new theme song. I laughed out loud when I heard the lyrics to this VERY catchy little tune by They Might Be Giants that many of you may feel you can relate to, and most of you are likely to find very entertaining (though you might find this song is stuck in your head for days — consider yourselves warned)! It’s animated in kid-friendly\/grown-up-friendly fashion and viewable by way of This Might Be a Wiki<\/a>, the They Might Be Giants knowledge base. If you get a kick out of it, you might want to subscribe to TMBG’s free podcasts<\/a>. Click on the image below to get this party started…<\/p>\n

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Watching the video again before posting it here, it suddenly struck me that the line drawings (in particular the animated ones during the "practice trumpet every day" section) look like they could’ve been done by Laura Ljungkvist<\/a>, author\/illustrator of (most recently) Follow the Line Through the House<\/a>. I’ve got no reason to think that Laura actually DID do the drawings for that TMBG animation, but the very talented Laura would certainly have been capable of doing so! Perhaps, though, she’s been too busy working on Follow the Line Around the World<\/em>, which is due out in May 2008 from Viking.<\/p>\n

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