Quickly, to help clarify, Girl Muscle Girl is…
- A website, updated every week or so, with freaky square-format drawings.
- A journal filled with scenes from everyday life, mostly set in Portland, Oregon.
- A sketchbook.
- A weekly column.
- A lagging indicator.
- An attempt at visually embodying the elusive postcoital psychedelic dream state.
- A friendly threesome.
- Memories, hermetically sealed.
- Past failures, carefully revealed.
- A first person account of an anxious empire unraveling at the seams.
- A yearbook.
- A yearbook of desire.
- Old friends-new friends, together at last.
- An earnest attempt at renewing the iconography of the Catholic church.
- A diary of self-doubt.
- “The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.” -Djuna Barnes.
- An argument in favor of staying alive a tiny bit longer, just to see what happens.
- A story about how things are going to get better.
- An open book.
- An open heart.
Originally published January 13, 2010 over at edmuscle.com.