Random Sunday night

[bironic]

Is it the tentacles or the timing, I wonder? :)

I'd really like to finish a bingo this round. Two squares of five down, and I've just opened up the Rodney/Katie WIP in Word for number three. Wish me luck? I'll probably need it, since I'm also moving and hopefully figuring out what my next short-term job will be in the next weekish.

People -- including someone on my f-list, parrot, maybe? -- has been saying that Y: The Last Man is excellent, so when I caught sight of it in the graphic novel section of the (smallish, odd that it has a graphic novel and manga section) town library, I picked up the first two volumes. Quick read. Plot-driven so far, with some mystery, chases, and feminism mixed together. Bonus points for having the hero be an English major. Not mind-blowing, but maybe it gets better as the volumes progress? I put in a request for the next few, which are coming from other libraries, and have The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier now that the first two Ys are done. I was looking for Watchmen, but someone must have borrowed it.

Didn't realize they'd go so fast; I was planning on reading all of this during the week after work. Pretty pictures and speech bubbles are about my speed right now. Not that graphic novels are necessarily easy. I still don't understand Sandman. Nonetheless. Well, there was a cute-looking one about 400, 500 pages thick, with a couple cozy in the snow, Blankets, maybe? that could serve when these are done.

Oh, and I found that the reason my SGA DVDs didn't show up for three weeks is that my Amazon address still said Boston, so they're at my old apartment. Guess I'll pick them at graduation in October.

Yesterday I ventured into Whole Foods to replace a bottle of olive oil I've decimated that belongs to the person I'm subletting from, and found a bar of milk chocolate from Iceland that not only says Sirius, but also Noi. Obviously I bought it. It's tasty, too.

Okay, enough stalling. Ralph Vaughan Williams and I are going to get down with this sex scene.

Comments

[thedeadparrot.livejournal.com]

Y: the Last Man definitely wasn't the most amazing thing I've read, but it was definitely a really interesting ride. Overall, I think I'm a bigger fan of Ex Machina, the other comic series written by Vaughn, but that may just be my love of technopathy speaking.

Also, I think Sandman is one of those things that gains greater depth every time you read it. I'd recommend doing that at some point.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I suspect that it'll help to read it a second time and then immediately read it a third time, when all the subplots and hints are fresh enough in mind to try to pick up the clues as they fall.

Turns out League of Extraordinary etc. is more what I was expecting - thick with cultural references that mostly go over my head, and tangents into long stories with shifts in tone, art and style. Neat.

[thedeadparrot.livejournal.com]

LoEG is definitely very cool. I think the wikipedia page of all the references is a lot of fun to go back and read once you've read it through once.

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

Ah, a philosophical question for the ages: Is it the tentacles or the timing? :)

Yay for Vaughan Williams and Sirius chocolate!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Vaughan Williams is a terrible companion for writing sex scenes, I must sadly report. Sirius/Noi chocolate is still tasty, though.

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

PLEASE tell me you've read Maus.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I have read Maus. For a Holocaust class in college.

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

I can't remember what class I read it for.

The first I read was Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, which is also fantastic, if depressing as hell.