See you in the funny papers

Have I mentioned Narbonic here? Thanks to djonn, I'm now hooked on this web comic. Not only do I subscribe, but I've purchased and devoured the book, and recommend that anyone with a taste for mad science, and a need for some lightness in life, to go forth and do likewise.


Like everyone else in the Known Universe, I also read MacHall on line. Volume Whatever is now available. I've been going through it slowly, not so much to savor the art, which is Really Good, but to give the autobiographical snippets by Ian and Matt the reading they merit.

I'll note in passing that this morning's Rose is Rose and Arlo & Janis are both surprisingly political, that Michael in For Better or For Worse has this morning passed a Rite of Maturity with grace and elegance, and that the Power of the Nun is undiminished in 9 Chickweed Lane.

And last but not, I think, least for the geeks 'mong us compiling their Christmas lists, may I recommend the Kill Bill hoodie as a tasteful political comment in the OS wars and a nice warm garment?

Scattershot

Lots of SRM work today, as the Procrastinator's InfoDump went out to remind people of ordering deadlines and other realities. In between It All, I mooched around in the garden -- snow tonight, they say; snow tomorrow. Accumulation, they say. 'bout time.

I'm astonished by the people elsewhere who report that they never had an imaginary friend as a child, and I rejoice that papersky has reconnected with an old friend she had thought imprisoned and abused.

My imaginary friends tended to be magic-workers and shape-changers; adventurers and gunfighters, and they were as real -- in some case, more real -- to me as the "real" people in my life. I guess I'd always assumed that everyone had at least one imaginary friend, once in their life. Live and learn.

Some writing got done. Yay, me.
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Project: Crystal Dragon
New Words Written: 1,244
Total Words: 32,820
Goal: 120,000+/-