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… {learned}:: a new word (funambulism)... (cooked}:: salmon because my innards needed a break... {revisited}:: Nine Inch Nails: DOWNWARD SPIRAL / YEAR ZERO... {wrote}:: new things by throwing out things that didnt feel as right today as they felt on Tuesday and I think I'm right but tomorrow will tell... {read}:: THE BOOKS OF JACOB, 517-488; my complete reading list, from 2013 to the present, lives here… {found}:: a goal for the year: to become speedier and grittier with publishing fiction... {returned}:: my drumset to my office... {procured}:: among other things, this... {intrigued (by)}: From The Ashes Of ComiXology Rises DSTLRY… {this has been}:: a day in the life of; tomorrow will be another. Until then…
I hereby absolve myself of any responsibility for resulting nightmares
Fairly certain of two things: one, that this 1933 Dick Tracy mask is one of the most terrifying things in my collection (this one is now second); and two, that it was probably the basis of the D.B. Cooper composite sketch:
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My left hand still hurts with every cross so boxing was out. Again. Right hand much better than it was. Heal, baby, heal… {wrote}:: PR/NL day; Wednesday Random (12+hours later I remain scarred edition): NIGHTWING, Vol. 2, No. 120 (Jones / Diaz, 2006); a whole lotta eBay feedback… {pondered – quite possibly from my own limited understanding}:: what happens when an AI decides it wants to try out another AI? Like, say, Colossal AI, decides it wants to use – or is directed to use – ChatGPT?… {read}:: THE BOOKS OF JACOB, 546-517; finished Chakyin's 1986 SHADOW mini; my complete reading list, from 2013 to the present, lives here… {procured}:: Many things, to be shared eventually. Here's one of them… {celebrated}:: PowerWash Simulator Muckingham Files 1.2 update announced… {this has been}:: a day in the life of; tomorrow will be another. Until then...
THE PENGUIN (Production teaser, 2024)
Farrell was the best part of THE BATMAN: looking forward to watching him dig even deeper into the role here.
Recent Blu-additions:
NIGHTWING, Vol. 2, No. 120 (Jones / Diaz; DC, 2006)
Every Wednesday morning, I make a blind pull from Siri's (randomized) choice of one of the 20 alphabetically-organized shortboxes that constitute my comics collection, (re-) read it, write about it, and publish the resultant review/memory/whatever. Earlier installments live here.
(Box18) Ohjesusfuck fate, what did I ever do to you?
As disappointed now as I was when this monstrosity of a (thankfully brief, IIRC – a "One Year Later" mercy kill?) run began: Jones's conspiracy-laden horror / X-Files – Mr. Green / Mr. Blue – take on INCREDIBLE HULK ('01-'05) had been so good that the unremitting thud of his NIGHTWING – including, in a textbook example of a great concept (villainous Jason Todd tries to replace Dick Grayson (occasional fashion model?) as Nightwing in a DCU where Batman has been gone for a year) gone sour in execution, the worst take on one of my favorite characters since he returned from the Superboy-Prime-punched / Lazarus-pitted dead, back in the days when no one – aside from Winnick, at that point – knew what to do with him – was a Joker-wielded crowbar to the head.
If writing is all about the exploration of choices, I can't fathom what Jones was thinking (or not) when he made the choices he made here. This was just awful and my shame at reading this back when I was young and stupid has only been magnified to the nth. Thanks, fate.