After I’d listed Misspent Youths #2-5 at Webcomics Nation’s sales site it started to dawn on me what should be serialized on my Nation pages. Misspent Youths #1 of course. I don’t have any copies of that issue to sell. Might as well give it away.
I’ve got some scanning to do over the weekend. Then on Tuesday the 9th, for the next 33 weeks, Moe and Detritus and the gang get a rerun.
So I’ve got a Webcomics Nation account right? Not ’cause I had big plans. I’m too tired these days to have big plans. (Okay, not true. I’ve often had big plans while being way too tired and busy.) I’m already committed to Finnegan and Oz Squad and anything new would just cut in to the little time I’ve currently got. But the Nation opened its borders and there was money in my Paypal account and their offer was a discount for life so I became a citizen.
The Nation is a capitalist one. It’s set up to help its citizens live their capitalist dreams. And I’ve got a few copies of comics I created filling up boxes that I’ll just keep moving around with me if I don’t sell them. So I’m putting copies of Misspent Youths and GLYPH and Last Dangerous Christmas up for sale at the Small Press Swapmeet.
I’m on the AFA.net mailing list. Know thy enemy and all that. Mostly I ignore their whinings. Once in a while I look. Then I get a head ache.
The latest poll asks –
Should Intelligent Design be taught in public schools alongside evolution?
Recently, President Bush was asked by a reporter if he felt intelligent design should be taught in public schools. President Bush replied: “Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes.”
Please fill out the form below and click the submit button.
Should students be exposed to different ideas, or should they be shielded from information about intelligent design? Give us your opinion.
Yes, students should be exposed to the theory of intelligent design in public schools.
No, the theory of evolution is the only theory which should be taught in public schools.
The Yes box in their form is prechecked. God forbid that someone actually has to consider whether to check yes or no. Someone might notice that no opinion is actually being asked for – just a rubber stamp on a dull and ignorant view of the world.
Should students be exposed to different ideas, or should they be shielded from information about intelligent design? Oh please, expose them to intelligent design. In fact, why not actually expose them to different ideas? Make them read Lovecraft and Phillip K. Dick. Make them watch X the Unknown. Tell the little darlings about spontaneous generation. Teach the little fuckers to apply critical thinking to every dumbass statement that their elders’ try to pass off as truth.
The AFA form, by the way, doesn’t provide you with a place to give your opinion. The only options are the AFA qualified Yess or Nos.
We’ve got an apartment reserved. Twice.
First Nizzibet found a one bedroom that she liked and put a down payment on it. The building manager mentioned that there was a two bedroom available if she was interested. She passed.
She and I discussed it this morning and decided to at least look at the place.
She liked the two bedroom place much more. Aside from having another room it also has a balcony and it’s on a side of the building away from the street so it’s quieter. Slightly more expensive for a much nicer arrangement. Unfortunately it needs to have some repair done on it so it won’t be available for move in until next week. So this week we’ll be concentrating on doing more packing, giving things away and trashing the rest.
The Slate essay about the Dove Real Beauty campaign. Mr. Stevenson is an idiot. I’d go in to further detail but, really, why waste the time typing about it?
By the end of this month we’ll be in a new apartment. That’s the plan anyway. Nizzibet will be doing the basic searching this week. We’d wanted to look sooner but the lack of car delayed that. Once we’ve got a place located I’ll be doing a lot of small trips moving clutter. You know, that stuff that you always leave until last to move?
We should be able to do a big move on the 20th or 21st and then have the next week and a half to finish clean/destroying evidence in the old place.
This is, of course, if things go as planned.
And I’ve signed up for a Web Comics Nation site. Nothing to see yet.
A Toyota Corolla has replaced our Suzuki Sidekick.
The house is a mess. Stacks of boxes are filling the unused rooms upstairs. Dull white paint is replacing the cheery colors that have graced our walls for the last few years.
There’s a lot of furniture that we need to find new homes for.
Worlds of Cthulhu #3 has finally gone to press. I know this because I was the last contributor holding things up. Damn me.
Normally I don’t care much about new prose Oz books. There are multitudes. I’ve read few of them so I’ve probably missed a number of good little stories. The Emerald Wand of Oz is illustrated by William Stout so it will be gorgeous. It hereby joins the other 600+ items on my Amazon wish list.
Which is not to say that it’s the most enjoyable werewolf novel ever. Wilding by Melanie Tem is the story of four generations of a pack of female werewolves in the season of the youngest’s pregnancy. The novel features no likeable protagonists (understandable – yes, sympathetic – yes, likeable – not in my world), incest, torture, killings of cute little animals and children, filth and slaughter. I’ve certainly read werewolf novels that were more fun but few that seemed as “realistic” as this one. Am I recommending it? If the above sounds interesting to you then yes. If anything in the above makes you hesitate then definitely not.
“I’m not trying to frighten people. If anything, I guess I would say I try to disturb people, to shake up how people look at the world. Mostly, though, I write out of an impulse in myself to understand something I don’t understand in human nature. That may be something dark, or it may not be. It may be just something mysterious that I don’t understand.” – Melanie Tem
Spent yesterday limping around with the aid of Nizzibet’s collapsible cane. It did help a bit. I adjusted my chair at work so that my leg dangled less. That also seemed to help. I kept getting asked if I was going to see a doctor about the leg.
Hmm. I’ve nothing against doctors. We didn’t use them much growing up. Visiting the dentist was a regular activity but the doctor? Not so much. No regular check-ups. We only went if something really inexplicapable was going on. My mother preferred home remedies. In later years she really disliked “Western” medicine. Mostly I don’t think about seeing a doctor because seeing one would interrupt my routine and usually any problem I’ve had has gone away in a short enough time that going to a doctor would have seemed pointless.
