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This Place Makes Me Wanna Break Into Song

Mary Bakija

Mary Bakija

18 Mar 2012
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Our neighborhood was the focus of this week’s Lucky series of auto-biographical comics by Gabrielle Bell. She tells me she had brunch out here at someone’s house, and clearly it left a nice impression.

Thanks for the tip, Jeff!

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