I was never into comics as a kid. Just never got into them, largely because they were too expensive for too little. Probably a good move on my part, since I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s, and apparently that was the blood-splattered foil-covered exploitative nadir of the medium. But to be honest my hard-earned $9.02 per week of paper- ( Read more... )

Spent a week and a bit fishing earlier this month. Dad's just retired and wanted some family time, so my sister and I went with him, up to the place on the NWW south coast we always used to go for family holidays when we were kids. Sister only stayed a few days - we learned a long time ago there's not much to do there unless you're interested in ( Read more... )

Ok, THAT was awkward ( Read more... )

To wax whiny for a moment, I've had a pretty rough year or so, for a number of reasons, and haven't dealt with it as well as I could have. You know, sitting around moping, neglecting work and exercise, failing to keep up with loved ones, friends and family, getting through more bottles of $3 cleanskin merlot than is strictly healthy, all the usual ( Read more... )

Cooking paella, drinking semillion blanc, and about to start watching Scott Pilgrim. Could I BE any more cliche? If I start wearing skinny jeans and a black t-shirt with an ironic band name on it, shoot me. Somewhere deep inside, I'll thank you for it.

Second bit of material written for the creative writing class. The assignment here was to write a piece that described a character, whether it was a simple character study or a description of an important moment in that character's life. As usual, I broke the assignment. I originally intended to focus this piece on the small man, but the ( Read more... )

In today's Lesson That Should Have Been Blatantly Obvious But Which I Had To Learn The Hard Way As Usual, if you should ever consider doing a Google image search for Kim Possible, it is a very very VERY good idea to make sure safesearch is on first.

Sick and wrong, people. Sick and wrong!I'm currently doing a CAE fiction writing short course, to ( Read more... )

I love Terry Pratchett, and probably like everyone else in the world who's ever read 'Jingo' I like to believe I'm substitious ( Read more... )

I'll post something non-food-related next, I promise! I'm still trying to get back in the habit of writing anything - it's amazing how you lose the flow of writing and any sort of agility or fluidity with phrasing when you've basically done no written work at all for as long as I have...

Tunisian turkey soup

Ingredients2 tins chickpeas (rinsed ( Read more... )

Yeah. 'Bachelor' is appropriate for me once more...

Nameless but extraordinarily healthy spinach thing

Ingredients1 cup brown rice ( Read more... )