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Back Home Again Already
Back in Chicago after the delightful weekend in Valpo. Maybe it's just all the driving involved, but it seems like Saturday and Sunday just evaporated. I'm thinking about comics for this week. -
Weekend Notes
We're back in Valpo for the weekend, getting ready for bed, so I'll just hit some brief notes:- The weird present-day coda on the BSG finale? Not to my taste. I've spent most of the day thinking about all the perfectly good reasons for it, and I can see them and understand them. My preference just be that it were executed differently.
- I Love You, Man. ( Read more... )
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Sunday is for Groceries and Plans
There's been a lot of smart and interestng comments about yesterday's post, which surprised me a lot, since I sort of thought I'd just be griping into the wind before I put that gripe back into a shoebox and that shoebox goes back under the bread. You were all very encouraging, so maybe I'll read a little more on our beginnings and toss out a kind ( Read more... ) -
Dumb Old Books
Tonight, in Borders, I thought again about this thing I want that I've never found and am not sure exists. I was standing in the Classics section and there's me and there's Plato and Aristotle and Catullus and Sappho and Cicero and Gilgamesh and Homer and the Egyptian book of the Dead and Juvenal and you get the idea. Every now and then I hanker to ( Read more... )
