Inarticulable

Holy shit, I forgot how good Dogfish Head’s Midas Touch is.  Like, oh, hey, honey.  More honey.  Some alcohol in there.  More honey.  Honey wine.  Yes, yes.

*deep breath*

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he had the rich man in his ha-aa-aand? 

And who would steal the candy from a laughing baby’s mouth, if he could take it from the moneyed ma-aa-aan?

*deeper breath*

CROSS-EYED MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARY

Things I feel the need to apologize for:

• the wall of art I’ve got queued for tomorrow

Things I feel no need to apologize for:

• the wall of text I’m sure I’ll have queued for the day after tomorrow

Aaaaaaaaaand that’s how my 3,000th post came to be about the Dibsing of the New World.

The bad cat, having been chastised for trying to claw up a stack of books, is now rolling on her back and showing her belly.  Her tail is thrashing, and she periodically glares at me in frustration because I’m not rubbing her belly and letting her tear the everloving shit out of my hand.

The good cat, who is hairball-prone and requires rather a lot of brushing and hairball-preventative treats to keep her from barfing everywhere at the most inconvenient of times, has taken to staring at me and aggressively making those little kitty “urp” noises like she’s going to barf every time she wants treats.  This is a distressing way of begging for treats, but not quite as distressing as the way the bad cat started bolting into the room every time the good cat started making “I’m going to yak, you guys” noises because that had started signalling the distribution of treats.

The bad cat has now forgiven me after a thorough brushing, because she is a brushing enthusiast to the point of barging into the bathroom whenever she hears me brushing my own hair, under the impression that she somehow missed the fliers for a welcome-all-comers brush-a-thon and maybe if she headbutts my knees a lot, I will brush her too.

copperbadge replied to your post: Operation: Manageable To-Read Shelf is failing….

FWIW the way I got mine down to zero was enforced reading. You take the first book you see, and you read it or you get rid of it. No setting it aside. Read it or ditch it. It’s cruel but sometimes necessary! :D

This is actually mostly a digital to-read shelf, so it’s at least not sucking up physical space in my house…but that’s only because I’ve mostly succeeded in limiting my purchase of actual books to things I know I’ll want to keep and things I can’t get from a library for the past year.  And I only just deleted everything off it like one month ago, because it had gotten so ridiculous that it wasn’t worth just trying to prune it.  Why do you do this to me, books?

Operation: Manageable To-Read Shelf is failing.  Badly.  Send reinforcements.

Today I have successfully been able to chart the speed with which my coworkers track their emails by the confused mutters of “…tacos?” rippling through the office.

• Moore, Alan. Tom Strong, Book 5. Wildstorm: 2005.

Do we like Tom Strong?  Then I guess we’re finishing Tom Strong?

• Moore, Alan. Tom Strong, Book 6. Wildstorm: 2008.

Finishing Tom Strong.  Yup.

• Grell, Mike. Batman: Masque. DC Comics: 1997.

Batman stars in: Phantom of the Opera.  IDK.

• Loeb, Jeph. Batman: Haunted Knight. DC Comics: 1996.

Batman vs. Not Having a Legacy.

• Chaykin, Howard. Batman: Thrilkiller.  DC Comics: 1998.

Everybody’s got weird little goatees, but nobody’s evil who wasn’t already.

• Clevinger, Brian.  Atomic Robo: Real Science Adventures, Vol. 1.  2012.
• Clevinger, Brian. Atomic Robo vol. 1. 2009.
• Clevinger, Brian. Atomic Robo vol. 2. 2009.

If you don’t like Atomic Robo then we can’t be friends.

• Moore, Alan. Promethea, Book 2. 2003.

And then I gave up.  Sorry, Alan Moore.

• Clevinger, Brian.  Captain America: The Fighting Avenger. 2011.

There is an intense discussion of Captain America’s many codenames, and it is great.

• Abraham, Daniel. King’s Blood. 2012.

Second book of the Dagger and the Coin series.  I’m really liking this series so far.

• Hickman, Jonathan. Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1. Image: 2012.

It’s Science vs. Everything.  Science is winning.

• Taylor, Laini. Days of Blood and Starlight. 2012.

Sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone.  This one kind of lost me.  Sorry, book, I just wasn’t that into you.

• Ronson, Jon. Lost at Sea. 2012.

This is the guy who wrote Men Who Stare at Goats.  He remains hapless and sad and a journalist.

• Deconnick, Kelly Sue. Captain Marvel, Vol. 1. 2013.

Captain Marvel vs. time travel.

• Moore, Alan. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century. 2012.

What is this I don’t even come on, man.