What's down with the OCG (Original Clown Girl)?

I'm still working on my series of posts re: my visit to Japan.

In the meantime, here's an essay by my sister Monica Drake about clowning around in a store window, doing art, and being artful about promoting her novel Clown Girl.

As an aside, apparently SmartFilter blocks her site:

You cannot access the following Web address:
http://www.monicadrake.com/

The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Pornography, Anonymizers

I'll have to email them and tell them to unblock it.