I just got a package in the mail from the redoubtable Blue Haired Angie. This is always a fun thing, so I opened it quite happily, and discovered within the two Beauty and the Beast comics Wendy Pini did based on the late 1980s television show. And I thought, “AWWW,” and smiled a lot, because that was very wonderful and thoughtful of Angie, and well, she couldn’t possibly know that I already owned them. So I plunked down happily to read the note that Angie sent along with the comics…
a splendid day
The entirely wonderful Leah Moore and John Reppion were in Dublin yesterday to do a signing at Sub City, our favorite neighborhood (for some value of neighborhood) comic shop. I went in to Dublin to see them and to run errands, and had a really very splendid day. oh, this got quite long, I’ll cut-tag it…
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
She was too young, even for a man with no age, but she caught his eye. Slim, dark-haired, with long fingers caught in the skirt of a shapeless dress, she was clearly not a child of wealth. She no doubt belonged to the riverboat upon which she stood, a shabby thing that had seen better days. Even so, in the fire’s light they both bent toward beauty. It was her gaze, fixed on the sky, which arrested him. Others watched the fire, drawn in by its glow and movement, but…
This I Used To Believe
This is a rather complex meme stemming from friends’ discussions, prompted by a This American Life podcast called “This I Used To Believe”, about changed ideas and philosophies: what people no longer thought or felt, and why. I thought it was sufficiently interesting to take a stab at it myself.
cranky internet fogey likes this
Thanks to , I have discovered Readability, which is a handy little toolbar widget that allows you to, with the click of a button, render text content into a size, font and margin-setting that you find comfortable to read. I don’t know when I became a cranky internet fogey (actually, anybody who’s been online as long as I have–19 years and counting (and yes, I know, half my friends have been on YEARS longer than that)–is one by definition), but I like this. Also, I hate Flash-based websites. There. I’ve…