Happy Things and Reading Meme...
Dec. 11th, 2019 09:11 pmWhen the going gets tough...the tough find things to make them laugh and be cheery, where ever they may find them.
1. This is just...awesome. The Deep Sea Interactive Scroll -- make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom.
It cheered me up after a bad work day. The sort of day in which you wish there were more trees and less people.
Also, I did not know that sea lions and elephant seals swam down that deep in the ocean or monk fish for that matter. Also didn't know the ocean went that deep. It was truly awesome --- really made me grateful for my home -- earth --- and blown away with awe for the natural world.
Also got to see the moon on the way home from work -- big, white, with all it's craters visible hanging low in the sky. Natural wonder is why I believe in God, even if humanity often makes me question my beliefs at times. It also is what makes me get up each morning, some days, while my fellow humans often make me want to stay in bed, hidden under the covers.
2. Hee Hee... Guidelines for Female Protagonists in Hallmark Christmas Movies -- outside of having to be former daytime soap opera starlets or going with a guy, played by an actor who was a former failed daytime soap opera star. (This is where all the actors who couldn't make it in daytime soap operas go...Hallmark Christmas Movies.)
3. I am a music historian and here's the best-selling single of every decade way back to 4000BC.
ππΏπ°π΅πΆπ² ππ²π»π±π²πΏππΌπ»
![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jazzemu_
I am a music historian, and withadrianrmg
I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC. Here's a thread:
Hee Hee. It made me giggle.
4. Little Boy Invites Entire Kindgergarten Class to watch him be adopted
____________________________________________________________________________
What I read Meme
1. Dawn of X Comics
Been steadily making my way through them. They are actually rather well written and the art is a mixed bag. A sort of combination of prose, charts, sci-fi diagrams, and art. Also text message board. Emails. Phone transcripts. Wanted Posters. And fake ads for lawyers in space. (These are not your typical comic books, and sort of play with the genre in new and somewhat subversive ways. Often slyly making fun of our society in the process.)
I'd say it is more speculative sci-fantasy than superhero action soap opera drama.
But it's also a mixed bag of tricks. Although the third and second issues were quite good of most of them.
However, if you want to read them? You really need to pick up House of X/Powers of X first which has just been released as a graphic novel, collecting all 12 issues in a volume that is $21.99 on comixcology.
2. Hawkeye - My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction et al
This is good. The art reminds me of early Frank Miller, except in color, and the writing has a similar feel to it. Dark and noirish. Similar to Batman Year One, although maybe not quite as dark. Hawkeye is slightly more likable than Batman.
In that he's not homicidal. Also this was written recently and not in the 1980s, so we don't have well...the 1980s sensibility.
I read the first issue in Volume 1 (which I'm reading for free via comixcology. I have unlimited, so get to borrow up to 15 books. Also get a 10-15% discount on most books. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford my habit.
It's also not outlandish. There's a view (by non-comic book readers who have only seen the movies) that comics defy logic and reality. Not true. Some maybe, most not. Also there's a wide range in the medium. It would be sort of like generalizing about ...all space science fiction dramas, or all video games. [Be careful about making broad generalizations about things you don't know anything about -- you look like an idiot. It should be noted that I've stopped bothering to respond people making idiotic remarks about things I happen to love -- I have to do that at work, and on a commute, I can only take so much.
This is what I like to call gritty, realistic, comic. Fits solidly in the noir genre. Hawkeye isn't super-powered. He gets hurt. Badly. The story fits in the same genre as the television series (based on the comics of the same name) Stumptown.
If you don't like superhero comics, but like noir -- and want to know more about Clint Barton from the MCU, try out this baby.
3. Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase - eh...I'm still plodding through it. It's different. Chase is part Albanian, so her first two books feature Albanian characters. And she makes a point of pointed out the differences between Albanians and the British -- Chase prefers the Albanians, the British don't come out quite as well, nor do the French for that matter. I think she's Albanian and British.
( vague spoilers )
1. This is just...awesome. The Deep Sea Interactive Scroll -- make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom.
It cheered me up after a bad work day. The sort of day in which you wish there were more trees and less people.
Also, I did not know that sea lions and elephant seals swam down that deep in the ocean or monk fish for that matter. Also didn't know the ocean went that deep. It was truly awesome --- really made me grateful for my home -- earth --- and blown away with awe for the natural world.
Also got to see the moon on the way home from work -- big, white, with all it's craters visible hanging low in the sky. Natural wonder is why I believe in God, even if humanity often makes me question my beliefs at times. It also is what makes me get up each morning, some days, while my fellow humans often make me want to stay in bed, hidden under the covers.
2. Hee Hee... Guidelines for Female Protagonists in Hallmark Christmas Movies -- outside of having to be former daytime soap opera starlets or going with a guy, played by an actor who was a former failed daytime soap opera star. (This is where all the actors who couldn't make it in daytime soap operas go...Hallmark Christmas Movies.)
3. I am a music historian and here's the best-selling single of every decade way back to 4000BC.
ππΏπ°π΅πΆπ² ππ²π»π±π²πΏππΌπ»
jazzemu_I am a music historian, and with
adrianrmgI have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC. Here's a thread:
Hee Hee. It made me giggle.
4. Little Boy Invites Entire Kindgergarten Class to watch him be adopted
____________________________________________________________________________
What I read Meme
1. Dawn of X Comics
Been steadily making my way through them. They are actually rather well written and the art is a mixed bag. A sort of combination of prose, charts, sci-fi diagrams, and art. Also text message board. Emails. Phone transcripts. Wanted Posters. And fake ads for lawyers in space. (These are not your typical comic books, and sort of play with the genre in new and somewhat subversive ways. Often slyly making fun of our society in the process.)
I'd say it is more speculative sci-fantasy than superhero action soap opera drama.
But it's also a mixed bag of tricks. Although the third and second issues were quite good of most of them.
However, if you want to read them? You really need to pick up House of X/Powers of X first which has just been released as a graphic novel, collecting all 12 issues in a volume that is $21.99 on comixcology.
2. Hawkeye - My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction et al
This is good. The art reminds me of early Frank Miller, except in color, and the writing has a similar feel to it. Dark and noirish. Similar to Batman Year One, although maybe not quite as dark. Hawkeye is slightly more likable than Batman.
In that he's not homicidal. Also this was written recently and not in the 1980s, so we don't have well...the 1980s sensibility.
I read the first issue in Volume 1 (which I'm reading for free via comixcology. I have unlimited, so get to borrow up to 15 books. Also get a 10-15% discount on most books. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford my habit.
It's also not outlandish. There's a view (by non-comic book readers who have only seen the movies) that comics defy logic and reality. Not true. Some maybe, most not. Also there's a wide range in the medium. It would be sort of like generalizing about ...all space science fiction dramas, or all video games. [Be careful about making broad generalizations about things you don't know anything about -- you look like an idiot. It should be noted that I've stopped bothering to respond people making idiotic remarks about things I happen to love -- I have to do that at work, and on a commute, I can only take so much.
This is what I like to call gritty, realistic, comic. Fits solidly in the noir genre. Hawkeye isn't super-powered. He gets hurt. Badly. The story fits in the same genre as the television series (based on the comics of the same name) Stumptown.
If you don't like superhero comics, but like noir -- and want to know more about Clint Barton from the MCU, try out this baby.
3. Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase - eh...I'm still plodding through it. It's different. Chase is part Albanian, so her first two books feature Albanian characters. And she makes a point of pointed out the differences between Albanians and the British -- Chase prefers the Albanians, the British don't come out quite as well, nor do the French for that matter. I think she's Albanian and British.
( vague spoilers )