![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jun. 3rd, 2019 08:54 pm1. Dear Great Britain, please keep Trump. We do not want him back. We're willing to pay for his living expenses, and whatever you need to keep him there. No thanks is necessary or required. Consider this our gift to you. Also please do not return him any time soon, oh and you can keep his entire family as a bonus. Since this is free of charge and all expenses will be covered, there's no need to send a return gift or compensation.
Note, we are sending Pence to the European Union -- as a consolation prize.
Yours truly,
The US.
2. Chidi thinks I'd make a great critic. I have my doubts. For one thing, I'd have to see movies like "Ma" -- which, no. And watch things like the Bachelor, also no.
And...I'd starve, it's frigging hard to make a living as a critic.
3. Sandman Universe via Neil Gaiman and various hand-picked writers and artists coming to a comic book house near you
Yes, they are reviving the Vertigo Titles. I read a lot of these back in the day, and rather adored them.
Some teasers on my fav's:
( Lucifer finds himself in hell but not sure how he got there )
( And meanwhile in the Books of Magic... )
2. On page 120 of 141 pages of Lucifer (2015-2017) Vo1. Cold Heaven -- which is rather fascinating and much better than expected. I didn't figure out who killed God and tried to kill Lucifer, but it made sense. No, we're in the aftermath or a short side story. So finished the main story, and this is the extra.
The main story was rather good. The art, the writing, and the metaphors. Also quite diversified for a comic.
Medjine - the Haitian orphan is my favorite character. Lucifer is his snarky lovable self, and Gabriel is a decent foil. It does a nice job of tying various subplots together -- which I couldn't imagine getting tied together or see how.
And like I said previously, the art is quite snazzy.
3. Reading The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey -- which I bought on Amazon as a kindle daily for $1.99. Needless to say it is not that much now. I found out about it and the deal via Smart Bitches (which likes to rec books that aren't romances and off the beaten track occasionally, as long as they are diverse or progressive in some way. Also lots of Kindle Daily Deals.)
So far it's rather interesting. It's a historical mystery that takes place in 1920s Bombay India, and the protagonist/detective is a female soliciter, the first in India, who specializes in contract law. She's working for her father's firm. And the widows, are Muslim women who are the wives of a dead polyginist. The heroine is Zorasthrain.
It's rather informative on India at that time, women's rights in India at that time, and contractual law. Also a mystery.
It does require a certain level of attention and focus that I may or may not be able to provide per my chaotic commute. (I take a subway and a train, with walking and waiting in between, and the subway often feels like an international school bus with rowdy teens and cranky adults. Not exactly conducive for reading anything that requires a certain level of focus.
But I'm in the mood for it. (I think I may have burned out on the romance novels.)
4. Seen two episodes of Good Omens now and am rather hooked. It's holding my attention better than the book did -- possibly due to the lack of footnotes. Also footnotes on television shows are far more entertaining then in books and are less distracting.
I love Tennant's Crowely. Arizaphal ain't bad either.
Told two co-workers about it, one might check it out (that's the one who is as indiscriminate as I am in regards to genre and somewhat geeky) and one told me that I was amazingly indiscriminate about genre and would watch anything. (True. Albeit within reason. I told him I don't discriminate on culture or people or most stuff, but if I think it will hurt me or if it has, I veer clear. I don't like to be hurt.)
Note, we are sending Pence to the European Union -- as a consolation prize.
Yours truly,
The US.
2. Chidi thinks I'd make a great critic. I have my doubts. For one thing, I'd have to see movies like "Ma" -- which, no. And watch things like the Bachelor, also no.
And...I'd starve, it's frigging hard to make a living as a critic.
3. Sandman Universe via Neil Gaiman and various hand-picked writers and artists coming to a comic book house near you
Yes, they are reviving the Vertigo Titles. I read a lot of these back in the day, and rather adored them.
Some teasers on my fav's:
( Lucifer finds himself in hell but not sure how he got there )
( And meanwhile in the Books of Magic... )
2. On page 120 of 141 pages of Lucifer (2015-2017) Vo1. Cold Heaven -- which is rather fascinating and much better than expected. I didn't figure out who killed God and tried to kill Lucifer, but it made sense. No, we're in the aftermath or a short side story. So finished the main story, and this is the extra.
The main story was rather good. The art, the writing, and the metaphors. Also quite diversified for a comic.
Medjine - the Haitian orphan is my favorite character. Lucifer is his snarky lovable self, and Gabriel is a decent foil. It does a nice job of tying various subplots together -- which I couldn't imagine getting tied together or see how.
And like I said previously, the art is quite snazzy.
3. Reading The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey -- which I bought on Amazon as a kindle daily for $1.99. Needless to say it is not that much now. I found out about it and the deal via Smart Bitches (which likes to rec books that aren't romances and off the beaten track occasionally, as long as they are diverse or progressive in some way. Also lots of Kindle Daily Deals.)
So far it's rather interesting. It's a historical mystery that takes place in 1920s Bombay India, and the protagonist/detective is a female soliciter, the first in India, who specializes in contract law. She's working for her father's firm. And the widows, are Muslim women who are the wives of a dead polyginist. The heroine is Zorasthrain.
It's rather informative on India at that time, women's rights in India at that time, and contractual law. Also a mystery.
It does require a certain level of attention and focus that I may or may not be able to provide per my chaotic commute. (I take a subway and a train, with walking and waiting in between, and the subway often feels like an international school bus with rowdy teens and cranky adults. Not exactly conducive for reading anything that requires a certain level of focus.
But I'm in the mood for it. (I think I may have burned out on the romance novels.)
4. Seen two episodes of Good Omens now and am rather hooked. It's holding my attention better than the book did -- possibly due to the lack of footnotes. Also footnotes on television shows are far more entertaining then in books and are less distracting.
I love Tennant's Crowely. Arizaphal ain't bad either.
Told two co-workers about it, one might check it out (that's the one who is as indiscriminate as I am in regards to genre and somewhat geeky) and one told me that I was amazingly indiscriminate about genre and would watch anything. (True. Albeit within reason. I told him I don't discriminate on culture or people or most stuff, but if I think it will hurt me or if it has, I veer clear. I don't like to be hurt.)