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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)

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Farrell was the best part of THE BATMAN: looking forward to watching him dig even deeper into the role here.

NIGHTWING, Vol. 2, No. 120 (Jones / Diaz; DC, 2006)

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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.

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Back to trying a nightly thing to wrap up the day, another bit of the shutdown routine. Can't seem to let the notion go, so I'll keep trying until I make it into something that works.

Unlike last month at this time, remembered that the small dogchildren had an appointment at the day spa; they are well and truly shorn. The Jorkie's collar is, as always after a day spa day, upside down.

First night of grilling, at last - which means that it will probably snow in the next few days. Pork chops - salt, pepper, cajun, turmeric, garlic, six minutes either side at 350+/-.

I'm finding myself not exactly embracing but not exactly loathing the lack of forward motion in, well, anything. Life. Maybe this is where things need to be? Questions in narrative are being answered - though still have to find that rhythm, which usually comes in some explosion / moment of clarity. Break tomorrow for Wednesday Random then back to it for the rest of the week.

I’ve become fixated on seeing the Michael Caine JEKYLL AND HYDE 1990 mini-series again, for some reason or other.

CALL OF DUTY: MWII and THE NIGHT AGENT await. See you tomorrow.