Is the clay of significance?
If not, would you like to lie outrageously? ;)

The clay is bound to be of some significance, but it could mean different things to different people... or if could mean someone is shortly going to be smeared with it.

Or (being familiar with your themes) they're about to end up as a statue.

To answer your question, the character in my original sketch (which you later cleaned up here) is both you AND Saara. At the time I (mistakenly) assumed she was a kind of avatar, much like Jay Kenendy's Jillian character, or any number of my own characters, including "Miss Ma'm'zelle Tim" and "Tim Kangaroo."

Regardless, this is a very cute follow-up!

I remember being very mystified at the time... the fannish tradition I came from (strict SF) had nothing like that kind of identification with fictional characters. In fact, the creation of Saara Mar (thought not an avatar) put me very much out of step with most of my peers in SF. Even after 40 years I don't think they altogether understand where I'm coming from.

Still cute and lovely.

He took a 100 pounds of clay....

and made a nifty seat out of it.

Well, 100 Lbs. wasn't enough for a full-sized Golem. And pint-sized ones aren't very scary.

This song came to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_Op_WdFH8

It's been a long time since I heard *that!* Now that I've heard it again I recall that I liked it a lot... back when... late '50s? ...early '60s?

1961.

I live in one of the top ten media markets in the US...and suffering through a frequent turnover in oldies music radio stations in the market...such station (usually one FM or AM station in the format in the market) broadcasts for a few months or years only to have the format switch to something "Profitable" and "attracting the right demographic listeners (the 20s and 30s age group)" like comtemporary rock, talk, or foreign language formats.

And then a new "oldies" format station pops up without much fanfare to go through the cycle again.

Can't save nothin' from YuselessTube though.

Paste the video URL into the top box at www.keepvid.com and click [Download] next to it (ignore the ads). There'll be an option to just download the audio. (Or the video) let it do its thing in the background and then later you can play the saved audio (or video) with no ads or buffering.

The only system requirement is having your Java plug-in up-to-date.

News to me -- I think I know other people who'll want to know this, if it works. I take it that Keepvid is a tool someone keeps on line to thwart tight-assed sites like YooTube?

It's been around for a few years, and probably isn't the only such site, but it's the first one I found, and have downloaded many gigabytes worth of videos and songs with it (although with music, I usually download the 720P "movie" if available, then use another freeware tool (Super ©) to strip out the audio)

I passed this on to a friend who's business it is sorting out computer problems for a large pharmaceutical company in Toronto -- he hadn't heard of it and was grateful.

But they can aim on your knee-caps... or.. more likely, toes

How did she jump the species barrier?

There's an explanation I can give for that, but the simpler one is that it never happened. Tim's art was a fantasy within a fantasy, sort of like Fearless Fosdick in L'il Abner. You didn't have to ask how any detective could be shot full of holes the size of pizza pies and just putty them up before the next case -- FF was just fiction to L'il Abner.

(Except he was too stupid to realize it, and was the only adult in Dogpatch who thought Fosdick actually was a real person.)