Tag Archive for sketchbook
Did you hear…?
I was in the guest disco, drinking with a few band members and the singer we’d just played for. The cruise director walked around, spreading the news. I cartooned it right afterwards. Just another surreal moment in a long night, but that’s another story…
A pristine afternoon in Antigua
If the 20-minute discrepancy seems like no big deal, let me clarify that we were half an hour out of town, on a bus line we didn’t know, and all-aboard was 4:15. Mila claims to have mysterious psychic time-telling powers, but who can keep track of time on a beach like this one?! So we […]
I think it’s the weather
This is our last week in the Caribbean. Most cruise ships have already begun crossing the Atlantic or the Panama Canal in preparation for summers in Alaska, the Mediterranean or the Baltic. There’s a reason for that: For the first time in months, the musicians’ outdoor sets are getting rained out, biking and volleyball plans […]
Just a little vent
This cartoon is in the just-for-myself sketchbook, but enough people commented on it that I decided to post it here. This is the entertainment office, where the cruise director, assistant cruise director, bandmaster, musicians and cruise staff are constantly in and out. I like the people, but the pace of being bandmaster has been an […]
Clearly back in New York…
This delightfully lewd Sondheim reference occurred at the Duplex, a piano bar in the Village, on my first night back in New York.
T-minus 4 Days
There are all kinds of reasons to have weird dreams on a ship: imminent travel, moderate drama, the rocking of the ship, sleeping in a room that’s been occupied by a rotating population of people since it was built ten years ago… The other night I had a dream about being trapped in a cave, […]
Counting down already. T minus-8 days…
It sank in this week, how soon I’m leaving, and I’m gripped in equal parts by premature nostalgia and crippling apathy. There was a crew party last night on the open deck, as high up on the ship as you can go. It was gorgeously breezy, and there were so many stars! I mostly sat […]
Girlified
I know a bunch of girls who say they get girlier on ships. More makeup, more feminine clothes… More thoughts on this later, but in short, me too.