Sometimes I shoot myself in the foot. Most of my bills are set up to use autopay because it’s less of a hassle. The ones that aren’t sort of fall off my radar. Last night I got home to find the DSL and land line had been disconnected. Doh! I called from my cell to have everything reconnected but it took some time. I had an internet-free evening, which is fine now and again, but the boy kept asking me to look up info for him. Alas, I could not. FAIL.
The night before that I’d meant to stop in to Super Target for just a few things, like a replacement hairdryer (and a Domokun pinata, an essential). Turns out Target now carries the boy’s enriched rice milk so there was no need to head to the co-op. Feeling a little guilty about that. And I forgot to buy the damned hairdryer! Doh.
A day late and a dollar short…yesterday at the U of M Rennie Sparks (of The Handsome Family) gave a talk: Pretty Polly and the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Strange fascinations and mysterious bloodshed in the wilderness of folk song. I would’ve loved it, but the lad might’ve been bored/creeped out. Hmmm.
I missed the Magnetic Fields last Friday, but there’s this little Stephin Merritt interview up on the MPR site. I’m now triple-booked for tomorrow night. Scored guest spots to see Wire at First Ave, my lovely co-workers at Clockwork are hosting another family board game night, and the always enchanting Amy Rice has an art opening.
Tis the season for zombies. I finally started reading The Walking Dead. So far it’s much like a comic book version of 28 Days Later. Then Saturday it’s the annual Zombie Pub Crawl, followed by zombies vs. pirates at the roller derby.
Tonight? Future of the Left and Ted Leo. Yesssss.
Bonus: The 1000 Journals project, now at SF MOMA.
Plus: Starting tonight, Mizna’s 5th Annual Arab Film Festival. And next Thursday Sound Unseen 2008 kicks off. And the Science Museum’s new exhibit, CSI: The Experience is now open through January 9th.
And: Upside Down Dogs. Also 10 Reasons It Would Rule to Date a Unicorn and The 8 Phases of Dating. And I’ve begun posting at Read Comics.
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Howdy.
A friend mentioned you and your website one night when we were chatting online… don’t even remember what we were talking about at this point. Hope you dont mind, when I was poking around I saw your mention of THE WALKING DEAD. Walking Dead is a good book, it reads like a typical zombie tale though. I personally thought it hit a real dull point back in the last story arc, but it seems to be picking back up. If you want some suggestions for good series to be reading from an Uber-Geek (I worked Part time in a comic store for seven years as a hobby…),I can not say enough positive about DMZ and Y The Last Man both put out by Vertigo/DC Y:TLM is over now so you can pick up the whole run in trades (some library’s even have it on the shelves. DMZ is still on going but a number of the arcs have been collected (They usually release the trade of a story arc a couple weeks after the last issue comes out.
Without giving to much away…
DMZ
Matthew ‘Matty’ Roth - Photojournalist intern who becomes trapped in war-torn Manhattan and decides to stay to document the conflict and those affected by it.
Taken from http://comics.wikia.com/wiki/DMZ which has some spoilers so read at your own risk…
and Y:TLM
is a comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, about the only man to survive the mysterious simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth. The series was published in sixty issues by Vertigo, and collected in a series of 10 paperback volumes
Taken from WIKI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_Last_Man again beware spoilers.
All right, enough bothering the person who doesn’t know me…
Later!
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