Patricia Storms, booklust, skimper triumph

So I've been invited to the annual Christmas party held by the National Cartoonist Society (Canadian Chapter) next week.

I'm a bit nervous since I won't know a single soul at the party, but I couldn't turn down the opportunity. A CARTOONIST party. How cool is that? Plus it gives me the chance to finally meet Patricia Storms in person. We "met" through our respective blogs; I've been very much enjoying BookLust: A bibliophile's musings on books, cartoons, art and stuff. I *love* the cartoons she frequently adds to her entries.

Congrats to Patricia on the publication of A Sticky Mess from Scholastic Canada, her second educational book. Do check out her portfolio site for samples of her cartoons, comic strips, illustrations, children's books, greeting cards, e-book covers and other client work. I especially love her Art Imitating Lit comic strip, which she has been posting in her BookLust blog.

Had a great time with Jodi last night, as usual. We talked lots about technonerdgirl stuff, especially the whole search engine optimization thing (Jodi's work specialty), which is still somewhat confusing to me. Speaking of SEO...

Skimper experiment update: Well, it looks like I've managed to knock Skippy the Bush Kangaroo off his perch after all, at least for now. According to a Google search I did this morning, my Skimper Blathering has moved up to the #2 spot.

I -think- I've achieved this by linking to it my from main page (see the left-hand navigation bar) as well as linking to it from follow-up entries. That still doesn't explain, however, why some of my archived topic pages on what I consider generic topics (like "German CDs" and "useful foreign phrases") still turn up near the top of Google searches, and others don't.

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