Spontaneous Musings

Better mood today - I got sleep, and my digestive system cleared out the toxins. (Note to self - I really need to stay away from processed food, specifically french fries. I had some last week - and I think it played havoc with my digestive system. Also, no pie for me, or no Meredith's gluten-free pies, although I think it had built up over time. I had to take anti-biotics earlier in the year, and that always screws with my gut.)

Pop Culture news that is cheering me up and making me happy. It's the little things. The sky was blue today. It was cool but sunny. And there's cool pop culture news about upcoming films either newly released to streaming, or in the works to look forward to. (I'm taking a break from the national/international news for a moment for well my mental, emotional and physical well-being?)

1. Marvel Live Stream Reveal

"Earlier this month, co-directors the Russo brothers said they see Avengers 5 and 6 as a “new beginning” that will lay the foundation for whatever comes next in Phase 7 of the MCU.

“The only thing I’ll say about the movie is this: we love villains who think they’re the heroes of their own stories,” Joe Russo said. “That’s when they become three-dimensional and they become more interesting. When you have an actor like Robert Downey, you have to create a three-dimensional, well shaped character for the audience. That’s where a lot of our focus is going.”

Avengers: Doomsday is currently set to arrive in theaters on May 1, 2026, and Secret Wars arrives about a year later in May 2027. Before then, Thunderbolts* comes out in May 2025, TV show Ironheart is out in June, and Phase 6 kicks off with The Fantastic Four: First Steps in July.

In October, Marvel Studios added three untitled movie projects to its 2028 release schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It seems increasingly likely one of these movies is X-Men."

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I also love Robert Downy Jr, although I managed to miss his one-man show at Lincoln Center - I couldn't afford it. I'm considering joining Lincoln Center, and getting discounted tickets that way.

There are ways?
( ways to get discounted Broadway tickets )

Other good entertainment news?

2. A Complete Unknown is now streaming on Hulu!!! Yay!

Sing Sing is currently streaming on MAX (this is the film about the inmate who starts a theater troupe within the prison).

More and more Oscar nominated films are popping up for free (with a subscription) on streaming platforms.

3. Doctor Strange 3 has been confirmed and has exciting casting news. Sam Rami is returning as director.

And..."Benedict Cumberbatch will return, and it’s likely that Charlize Theron will also reprise her role based on the cliffhanger from the previous film. Wong is expected to return as well. However, the report also confirms an exciting addition: Dormammu!

Yes, the villain from the first film is making a comeback, and we’re thrilled to share that he will be portrayed by Denzel Washington. This suggests we may see more than just his head in the third installment."

[The Marvel movies continue to have the best casting and directors. They cast folks I'd go watch read the phone book.]

4. Upcoming Superhero Films for 2025 and 2026

Ah, I'm right, Fantastic Four: First Steps is going retro - it's in an AU, and takes place in the 1960s. Fantastic Four Trailer - this could actually work? Fantastic 4 works better as retro - because a lot of the things that happened in the comic don't really work now, but did in the 1960s, it solves the problem.

And the Superman Trailer (Superman has a large cast)

Still watching the Olympics - finished watching the Team Synchronized Rhythmic Gymnastics, I may attempt to see the individual at some point on Peacock. On Peacock, I can see replays. (China, Israel, and I think Italy won.)
( The Olympics )

To date, I've read four of the new regime's X-men comics. Along with two of the unlimited character specific ones. I'm enjoying them. I wouldn't say they were better than the prior regime, so much as different - and feel more like a call back to the mid-00s. I kind of Hickman's speculative sci-fi take, even if it was a bit above the heads of most comic book fans, which was the reason it didn't last and kind of lost steam.

Also, Hickman seems to get bored easily and jumps to other things. I've noticed scans daily isn't that into it - since they barely talk about the new comics.

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Conversations...

Wales: I shouldn't tell you this...
ME: Okay.
Wales: Don't tell anyone...
Me: Uhm, okay...
Wales: My firm represents ( Read more... )

Me: How was your vacation to Europe? Where did you go?
Chidi: Paris, Rome and Venice. Rome was like being a cartoon character in this insane city with huge buildings that are centuries old. Big buildings little tiny cars.( Read more... )

1. I may or may not live to regret this - but I decided to train to become a small group facilitator for my church - to facilitate difficult conversations about Gaza. They've hired an expert in this, a transman, to train facilitators and host the discussions. I listened to the transman's sermons? He's good.
( ruminating over it )

2. I was also right about the new X-men editor, Brevort entering into a fight he can't win.
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Also loved this, and kind of wish the Buffy writers and various soap writers had the guts to say the same thing:

Han

Tom, fans don't want the marriage of Scott and Jean. The vast majority of fans want her away of Scott. I hate the way that Scott was out of character in krakoa sharin his wife with his rival. And the way that she was with Scot and Logan and the same time. this writing is embarrassing for any woman.

Tom

I tell you, Han, I’m always skeptical when anybody tells me that the “vast majority of fans” wants. Because I don’t know that anybody is in a better vantage point to be able to determine that than we are. I will absolutely concede that some fans feel as you say, and they may be all of the fans in your immediate circle, certainly. But that isn’t all fans, not even close. So I appreciate your point of view, but I’m still going to have my guys tell the stories that they want to tell."

I love that quote. So true. I really wish television writers could say this.

I really like the new editor in chief of the X-men.

And I continue to be entertained by the editor dealing with fans...after declaring there was no romantic relationship between Wolverine and Jean on the page. (There was, however, he is correct that it was kind of a blink and you missed it moment. Various writers flirted with it, as did various artists, but it never quite took - because it did not work.

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1. Well, I submitted pandemic sunflower to the Brooklyn Art Museum Open Admission site. It's not really a contest - or it is - but the prize is being exhibited in the museum with a lot of other artists and having your work shown.
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I'm proud of myself for submitting it. It's the first work of art that I've submitted to an exhibition in a very very long time, since I was a kid, actually.

2. Television

* Been binge-watching Resident Alien on Netflix, starring Alan Tudyk, there's two seasons of it available. Made it through about six episodes. They are about thirty minutes each and being Netflix, when one ends, the next one begins with barely a credits roll.

Set-up? ( vague spoilers - except all happen in first two episodes ) Think fish out of water tale such as Northern Exposure - except the fish out of water is an alien trying to destroy the human race, and failing miserably at it.

It's a comedy.

Started on Syfy, now on Netflix as well. Much easier to watch on Netflix.

* X-men '97 - Disney + - this is a reboot of the 1990-1996 Fox X-men Animated Series. I saw about two or three seasons of the 90s series back in the 90s. And it's really when the X-men became mainstream. Most people know about the X-men from the Fox 1990s series. (Ugh). The Fox 1990s series is not bad, it's actually better if you've not read the comics first. If you've read the comics first and remember them well - it will irritate you. The animation of the Fox 1990s series is on the clunky side (it was good in the 1990s however), but better than most cartoons. And the dialogue on the cheesy side. Cyclops is written kind of stiffly and not well at all. He's boring in the 90s series, the most interesting characters in the series are Rogue, Storm and Wolverine, Jean is kind of dull and poorly developed, as is Cyclops and Jubliee. Gambit is kind of edgy and creepy. That's the 1990s cartoon.

The 2024 reboot - or X-men '97 which was written and created by the (recently fired) Beau DeMayo is actually pretty good. And a vast improvement over the original. It has two episodes that have dropped. And it focuses on the late 1970s/early 1980s comics but - with big changes. Scott/Cyclops is written a tad better, as is Jean, Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Gambit, Jubliee, etc. And they've brought back Morph. Xavier is gone, and Magneto is taking over.

What's odd is they fired the creator, and he's left social media entirely. Hasn't posted since the firing in early March, two weeks before the premiere.

No one knows why. Except he was posting semi nude pictures of himself - posing on Xitter - and well, he's Black and Gay. And it is Disney. But I'm hoping they had a better reason and guessing it was a legal one? No one knows, and no one is happy about it. The first two episodes were done well.
All the characters were written and drawn better, as were the action sequences.

On Beau DeMayo Firing and Where Things Currently Stand

Marvel is working towards rebooting the X-men films, and doing that through a reboot of the animated series, and the comic series - the X-men is its most popular flagship series, since it has the most diverse characters and the most diversified audience and ahem, appeals to women, LGBTA, trans, and not just nerdy heterosexual cisgendered fanboys.

And I foresee a Bridgerton rewatch in my future. Also the 3 Body Problem is on Netflix.

3. Almost forgot... Cillian Murphy forms a new production Company, Big Things Films

" EXCLUSIVE: Cillian Murphy, fresh off of the massive global success of Oppenheimer — and as he gets ready to debut Small Things Like These (in which he stars and he produced) as the opening-night gala of the Berlin Film Festival next week — has set his next starring and producing gig with Steve.

This adaptation of Max Porter’s novel Shy also officially launches Murphy’s production company, Big Things Films, with longtime collaborator Alan Moloney."

The article contains a discussion with Cillian and his producing partner.
Also Cillian is starting filming on a Peaky Blinders movie for Netflix in September.

This is the team that did Breakfast on Pluto, Intermission and Delingquent Season.

" An independent, story-driven company, Big Things was initially created to produce Small Things Like These, and aims to collaborate with singular filmmakers, writers, actors and directors, both new and established, who have something to say and are passionate about what they do. Big Things will collaborate with like-minded financiers, studios, distributors and streamers in both film and television.

The company will seek material in which Murphy will act, but not exclusively.

Projects will be designed to provoke, inspire and explore themes that take audiences to places that can sometimes be uncomfortable, but more often reveal core truths about who we are, regardless of genre or format, the partners say.

Meanwhile, Berlinale opener Small Things Like These is based on the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by Claire Keegan with a screenplay by Enda Walsh. Murphy, Eileen Walsh and Emily Watson star in the story which takes place over Christmas 1985, when devoted father Bill Furlong (Murphy) discovers the startling secrets being kept by the convent in his town, and some shocking truths about his own life as well. "

So good news for Cillian Murphy fans.

Ryan Gosling is starring in Project Hail Mary - the Andy Weir novel adaptation, which I will most likely skip, because it has a friendly alien spider race in it. I can handle that in a book, I cannot handle looking at alien spiders on screen.

Sigh, it's that time again - off to bed.

1. Managed to put together a tray table that I bought from Amazon for eating and possibly drawing and painting on. I may use it for the laptop as well. Haven't decided yet.

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It's not perfect, but it does get the job done. Only quibble is it is really hard to adjust the angle of the top into different positions. Also took forever to adjust the legs.

2. Went grocery shopping - and appeared to be accident prone - or I left disaster in my wake, one or the other. ( the mini-disasters that I left in my wake at the grocery store )

After that, I kind of tip-toed around the store, afraid of causing another mishap.

I wish I could say I felt something one way or the other - but I didn't.
It's as if I'm walking around in a fog lately.

Did manage to pick up healthy things and avoid sweets and ice cream for the most part. Got peaches instead. Buying peaches and nectarines is always problematic. The chances you'll get an overripe mealy one or unripe hard one are high.

3. My Church is doing a "go off plastic" challenge via the sustainability group, that I've no clue how people manage it. One woman stated that she'd picked up bar shampoo and bar soap. Considering I can't stand bar soap, that's not happening. I really can't avoid plastic - it's every where. It's akin to trying to avoid sugar (another discussion). I bought a glass bottle of natural spring water today - in my attempt to get away from plastic, after reading that plastic bottles are bad for you. Although they do have ones that are BPA proof now. Whatever that means.

4. At work yesterday, Gabe informed me that she needed to taste her medication in order to remember that she took it. And took powdered tynenol. It had sugar in it - but that helped her remember and soothed her. I thanked her for explaining that too me - because I'd always wondered why they added sugar to so many medications. Now I know.

5. I don't know about anyone else? But I'm finding the information age to be exhausting. ( Read more... )

6. I am still in a reading slump. Cat Sebastian's book "The Crimes of Marian Hayes" isn't grabbing me. I don't know why.

I am enjoying Geena Davis' audiobook - Dying Politely. Apparently she spent some time in NYC pretending to be a mannequin in shop windows. She was trying to get into modeling, but at six foot, she was considered too big.
The clothing samples they provided for catalogue and runway models were sized at 5'10, if that. But Geena was determined. As a side gig to working in a retail store, she pretended to be a mannequin in several shop windows. She even found a wire to make it look like she was plugged in. The challenge was to fool people into thinking she was a mannequin. I don't know how she did that - I'd have given up after ten minutes.

I'm thinking of trying another book by T Kingfisher - who to date has written the only book that I could finish that wasn't an audio book, and also that I remembered and haunted me. Plus no romantic love interest.
I may be burned out on romances? I should stop buying them. And switch to horror and dark fantasy for a bit.

I seem to want books that have a spot of magic in them? I don't know.

Wales jumped from a Jennifer Weiner beach read, which annoyed her, to a Patricia Highsmith novel. She also tried to read Elena Ferrati's My Brilliant Friend, made it through most of the first novel, before getting fed up and throwing it against the wall. She didn't like anyone in it, and didn't care what happened to any of them. And was bored. Didn't understand how the writer got published or why people loved her. I can relate - I couldn't get past the first fifty pages. I got bored. That sort of fiction no longer works for me. I'm sure it's lovely, it just doesn't work for me right now.

7. Yesterday discussed nails with Mel.
( getting nails done )
It's fascinating to me how different we all are, and how our different upbringings inform who we become.

8. Trying to get spoilers on a comic book character that I'm concerned about. But the spoiler sources aren't reliable - mainly because they don't like the character, and have troll logic.
( venting about annoying comic book journalists who don't understand the characters and have the story/character analysis skills of two year olds, no offense to the two year olds intended )

Ugh. I know they aren't going in that direction.

9. Night Agent - saw the first episode. It's good. Basically an FBI agent after stopping a bomb from taking out a group of folks on a metro train that he was on, is assigned to the counterintelligence Night Desk, as the Night Agent. The phone never rings. Until one night it does. Rose, who has just declared bankruptcy and lost everything, discovers her parents are spies and in trouble. They tell her to run next door and call the Night Agent, and give her the codes. She does - and well, it goes from there.

Long past my bed time - heading there now.

1. Music crosses all boundaries...no matter what they are, those of us that know it have no problems crossing them.. -- Willie Nelsen.

Finished watching the two hour episode 7 of Ken Burn's eight episode documentary Country Music, which goes into depth on the personal trajectories of various legends, and how they influenced country music.

As an aside, and relevant to this post, believe it or not, in my guided meditation, the monk who leads it stated "It helps to remember that everything we do, say, or write affects others and the world around us. This may be scary but it is also empowering, and we must all be mindful of what we say, think and do and how it can change the world."

All you need to do to see how people affect one another is watch this documentary.
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2. Reading Meme

* I read and finished Powers of X #5 of 6 by Jonathan Hickman and RB Silva, and was, per usual impressed with Hickman's re-imagining of the X-men. If you are a huge fan of Emma Frost, Xavier, and Magneto, particularly Magneto, you will enjoy these comics. There's a lot of world-building here, but it's done in a fascinating and compelling manner. Also the art per usual is amazing.

( major spoilers in review )

3. Finished "For The Duke's Eyes Only by Lenora Bell" which was badly executed some interesting ideas. ( Read more... )

Moved on to How to Date a Dragon -- the book about the paranormal anthropologist who was supposed to study perverted sex-crazed dolphins (which I can't imagine going all that well) but instead ends up being sent to a magical bayou in Louisiana, where we have a shape-shifting bear as Mayor and the local sheriff is a shape-shifting Dragon. ( Read more... )

1. Instead of going to the Highline Park in Manhattan as previously planned, I chose to Take a 6.1 mile hike in Prospect Park -- which is an extremely large park in the middle of Brooklyn and about twenty-five minutes from my apartment. ( Read more... )

2. Finished House of X # 3 -- which is quite good and leaves us on a bit of cliff-hanger. Also the writers provide the readers with an alphabet for the new Mutant language (Kraokan).( Read more... )

3. Speaking of Marvel...apparently they've plotted out their movie and television releases into 2026. Kevin Fiege ripe off his success with producing the MCU up to and including Endgame -- gets to oversee all the other properties.

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4. Television critic tries to compare Dark Crystal and Carnival Row to Game of Thrones and finds them lacking.

Sigh. I wish people wouldn't do this and would just judge things on their own merits. I think one of the inherent flaws in human nature is this incessant desire to compare things or have things compete against each other.( Read more... )

1. So, I've had a day. Which wasn't helped by being soaked by the deluge on the way home. It was pouring so hard, that after two blocks, having an umbrella didn't appear to matter. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

2. Currently reading..(I'll look it up for you) The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

It's basically a memoir by an gay African-American chef -- who explores his African-American ancestory and heritage through cooking. So part cookbook, part memoir.

I'm about 20% in -- or 50 pages.

Reading it has made me think about my own cooking or culinary heritage such as it is. Mainly the writer makes the assumption that we all have one, or all African-Americans can trace theirs through it. (I beg to differ, I happen to know a lot of African-Americans who do not cook nor want to. What is about human beings that we have a tendency to think everyone shares our views, perspective, and skill or tastes? )
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It's strange but in my fifties, I'm beginning to see myself and others more clearly somehow. And I'm less concerned that others share or even understand my skills or tastes. It's as if I no longer feel the need for approval or validation. Or care.
It's weirdly freeing.

For instance, I realized recently that I don't enjoy cooking that much. ( Read more... )

3. Finished Powers of X #2 by Jonathan Hickman and RB Silva. The art, once again, is quite good. But there is an awful lot of expository world-building and hard science fiction detail in this book. It feels at times like reading Doris Lessing's Sci-Fi Opus.. Canopus in Argos which I couldn't get through. This is just a comic and breaks things up a bit. Canopus in Argos was a huge book...and pages and pages of it.

There's a nifty pair of quotes at the end of the comic -

Stan Lee - February 1969 - " Where do you nuts get your ideas?" " That question is asked of Yours Truly at lectures, interviews, and bull sessions more often than any other..... The point is, ideas are no problem. Here in the Bullpen, we can't talk to each other for five minutes without coming up with a zillion new thoughts and angles. The big hangup is getting the time to develop the ideas...to polish them and refine them until we feel they'll have maximum impact -- until we know they'll be an integral part of the ubiquuitous Marvel universe! Everyone has ideas -- you, I, the gang in the mail room- even our competitors, bless-em. What really counts is what you DO with them. We believe that almost any idea can be worthwhile if it's presented with integrity, taste, and imagination. For, an idea is like a guitar -- it doesn't mean a thing unless you know how to use it!"

This is followed by the quote: " You must see by now,there is no you and I, there is only us. We are together, or we are nothing." - Xavier


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1. What I Just Finished Reading

Just finished Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman and R.B Silva, which frankly blew me away. It's chapter 2 in Hickman's reboot of the X-men. Which really can be read without any knowledge of the X-men verse whatsoever.

I really went in with low expectations. The last six years of X-men comics have been abysmal, with bits of genuis here and there. Brian Michael Bendis run on the comics was rather interesting, until he ran out of steam, and Marvel decided to dump the X-men in favor of the Inhumans. So the plotting sort went into the ground and then some. If any series was in desperate need of reviving or rebooting, it was the X-men.

But it's not like they haven't rebooted it before as most fans will attest. And often horribly, and often repetitively.

Hickman doesn't do that. Instead he goes off in a completely different direction lifting the series to literary levels in the process. It may be too soon to get excited, this is only chapter 2 in the series. But, it's written in such an innovative narrative style, and drawn in one, that I can't help but get excited about it. A comic done well -- is a beautiful thing.

And...as I wrote on Good Reads? Frigging hell, that was a good read.

If I were to refer a science fiction fan to one superhero or Marvel comic -- I'd refer them to House of X and Powers of X, which are basically, Chapter 1, then Chapter 2 in a series. Also you don't need to know the back story of the X-men at all -- it works on its own as an interesting speculative science fiction series. ( Read more... )

2. What I'm reading now?


We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix -- which is starting to piss me off. While reading it on the train ride home, my blood pressure was slowly sky-rocketing.

I've been staying away from anything that pisses me off. (I'm not sure I need to explain why, do I?)

The story is about Kris (Aka Christine, she goes by Kris) who basically got screwed out of her music, her liviliehood and any career in music by a bunch of boys, who signed a lucrative contract -- so the front-man could steal her work and make a killing elsewhere. It's a horror novel, or tongue firmly in cheek horror novel, about a hard-driving metal band. Kris reminds me a bit of Joan Jett, except if she took up with a bunch of boys instead of cool gals. The writer doesn't appear to like men very much -- and he is one, so...that's interesting. I've been noticing a trend lately with a lot of male writers -- is as if their reaction to the current state of affairs is prominent loathing of the straight male gender.

(Eh, I know and work with a lot of cool men, so I think they need to lighten up, and stop generalizing. Treat people as individuals, not part of a group.)
( plot spoilers )

The Mighty Thor by Jason Aaron and R. Dautman is, by stark contrast, wickedly good. It's a political thriller, fantasy, and story about cancer and female empowerment all rolled up in one. Once again the guys are not shown in the best of lights. Fellas? You aren't that bad.

Loki is rather interesting in this version -- and I'm beginning to understand the Loki/Jane Foster fanfic after reading the first two-three chapters of it. Loki fights Jane as a woman. And tells her that he wants to do something other than just fight this time around, she, of course doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him. (With good reason, he's kidnapped her numerous times and tried to kill her. Once threatened to fee her to a pet tiger.)

The art is quite good. Good art is key in these books. To all comics writers and editors everywhere -- do not skimp on the art, and make sure it works with the writer.

3. What I'm reading next?

Since I'm getting fed up with "We Sold Our Souls" -- seriously, I've no clue what the ladies/reviewers on SmartBitches.com are smoking. They keep recing books that look great and they say are great, but just annoy me. Anyhow -- since I'm getting fed up with this book -- I may borrow "Little Fires Everywhere" from the Library...assuming I can get it from the Library. I don't really want to buy it. I got enough books.
I need to start borrowing them, which is what I'm doing with a lot of comics on comicxology.

4. Unrelated to the above and the subject..but on my mind. My teeth hurt. ( Read more... )

5. I told Chidi today that I wanted to take a writer's retreat to Montreal (by train). (But alas, the Universe won't let me, since it doesn't appear to exist. There are retreats in Banff and Toronto, but I don't want to go there.)

Chidi: Are you a writer?
Me: Yes.
Chidi: What do you write?
Me: Fiction.
Chidi: Why don't you share it?
ME: I do share it. I published a novel and everything.
Chidi: You did? (he's shocked. And looks it up after I give him the title, etc. Chidi is momentarily impressed then racing off to an unrelated topic. Speaking to Chidi is akin to speaking to my mother -- he jumps from one unrelated track to another, it's hard to keep up...the man has the attention span of a puppy. I wanted to say gnat, but honestly do we know how long a gnat's attention span is? No we do not.)

1. Reading Meme

* What I Just Finished Reading?

E-Books [because I read everything on the Kindle at the moment]

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

This was disappointing. It started out being this great story about a female attorney in Bombay, India who had managed to survive a nasty marriage and was solving legal mystery....to a rather boring murder mystery that meandered and felt a tad...boilerplate.
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E-Comics:

[By the way, comicxology unlimited -- gives you discounts and you can borrow up to 50 comics at a time. That's how I'm doing this.]

* UnCanny X-men #20 - 2018 by Matthew Rosenberg -- geeze, a lot of characters are getting killed off during this run. To date, they've killed off one or two characters per book. Granted they aren't exactly major characters -- and honestly most of the major characters they've already killed off at least twice already. (It's bloody hard to take character deaths all that seriously in comic books. If you do, you clearly haven't been reading them for very long -- just wait, whichever favorite character they killed off -- will most definitely return at a future date.)
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Age of X-man - Marvelous X-men Issue 5 -- found this series to be rather slow and sort of boring. It's a bit too preachy -- and feels like AU fanfic. (Actually most comics do at various points, par for the course.) Will be happy when it's over.

BoomComics Buffy Reboot #5 -- I may have reviewed this already? Can't remember.

CJL: Did they turn Xander into a vampire?
ME: Well...sort of.
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What I'm reading now?

Outside of hammering away at my novel...which is writing not reading, so never mind.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

This is the first fictional novel by the 70 year old woman living out in the wilderness of Idaho...who used to write naturalist books about Africa with her ex-husband.

So far? ( Read more... )

As an aside -- it's odd, all the fictional (non-comic) books I'm reading are by women, and all the comics seem to be by men. ( Read more... )

2. Struggling with restless legs at the moment, blame my mother for bringing it up -- that and dehydration.

Tired. Have not been sleeping well. Most likely weather related, the humidity fires up the arthritis which fires up the sciatica, which drives a needle of hot pain into my left knee.

Doctor suggested knee to ankle pillow -- been hunting on Amazon. Not sure, think I found something -- currently using a regular pillow. Doctor is actually pretty good for a change, even if she's a bit blood test happy.