Warning: geeky review and commentary of old comics within.
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29/05/2009
[... consumed anew #118 - 125] Justice League Quarterly
27/05/2009
[...about me #124] 33 bands: 4
Artist: TV on the Radio
Albums owned: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes(2004)
Eps owned: none
Album(s) missing: Return to Cookie Mountain (2006); Dear Science (2008)
Status: On tour
Personal history: see “anew #65″
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33 bands (in no particular order):
1. The National
2. Modest Mouse
3. De La Soul
4. TV on the Radio
13/05/2009
[...consumed all new #124] Infinity Inc. #1-6
Picked up a last year’s Fan Expo for… free? Yeah, free. Thank the gods because this is some of the absolute worst comic book writing I have ever read. Roy Thomas, ladies and gentlemen, should never have been allowed to write AND edit his own books. Nobody should be allowed to write and edit corporate owned comics. It’s a bad combination leading to self-indulgence, plodding plots, overwrought melodrama and some of the most hackneyed storytelling I’ve been privy to. Jerry Ordway suffers through endless word balloons of painfully tin-eared dialogue to deliver some decent art early in his career (the costume designs for Silver Scarab and NorthWind are downright hideous though), but good art can’t save a book that’s this juvenile, not to mention convoluted. Yet somehow it lasted almost a half decade. My eyes are starting to bleed beneath the rose-coloured glasses through which I view comics of the 1980’s.
11/05/2009
[...about me #113/learned #127/i ate #121-135] snackaholic
Whilst spending two concentrated weeks with my Mom and Dad, working on the house, making frequent trips to Rona/Home Depot/Canadian Tire, watching hockey, eating meals, and just being a family that I have inherited a lot of traits from my parents, in particular a snacking obsession which it would seem stems from my dad (probably my mom too, but she’s found willpower).
In the time they were here I ate:
121 - Peak Freans Lifestyle Selection Blueberry and Brown Sugar Cookies (with Flax!)
122 - Humpty Dumpty ChedACorn
123 - Doritos - Nacho Cheese flavour (I was originally trying to make a point about the fakeness of dialogue in food commercials and wound up getting suckered into snacktime)
124 - Munchos
125 - President’s Choice Blue Menu Fig Cookies
126 - one dollar Swiss fruit and nut chocolate
127 - Bounty coconunt chocolate bar
128 - peanut M&Ms (Aden’s favourite)
129 - cherry & creame cheese danish
130 - apple & creame cheese danish
131 - Tim Hortons donuts (maple glaze, double chocolate)
132 - day old Tim Hortons donuts (honey glaze)
But the snacking didn’t stop there, carrying into the weekend
133 - meh cherry pie (from the local fruit stand)
134 - more Tim Hortons donuts (their sucky walnut crunch, which I always forget is nothing like the awesome Robin’s Donuts walnut crunch)
135 - apple pie (as made by Aden’s aunt, and about the best apple pie I’ve had in 2 or 3 years)
Thankfully I’d been working my ass off the past two weeks, climbing ladders, pulling cables, sweating it out in monkeysuits insulating the attic, so I didn’t really gain much weight, but that kind of snackiness can’t continue. I’m a snacky guy in general and I try to reserve it for one or two nights a week, but my folks, well, let’s just say they’re enablers. Heh. Love them lots though, and I wouldn’t have gotten much done without them.
06/05/2009
[...learned #121 - 125] more mr. fixit
- when you’re working in dusty places like attics or with plaster dust and sawdust falling in your face, goggles and a mask are a necessity. Still doesn’t stop your boogers from turning black though
- when plastering the holes you make, waffle tape is essential to give the plaster some traction. You really want to fill in any gaps in the wall or ceiling with as much plaster as possible so that everything is solid, but when working with large, open holes, you will need to have something in place (drywall, wood, etc) to fill in the space first, as plaster will either just fall in or out of the wall or bubble down from the ceiling without something to cling onto. Also, it reduces any drafts in the walls which also causes bubbling. My dad has a way of fixing the stopper in place by screwing it into a thin, flat board.. easy to show, hard to describe.
- you should really dropcloth the floors when working on ceilings over hardwood, since the plaster that drops down can be crunched up and scratch the floors up
- when finished with your bucket of ready-mix plaster, clean off the insides of the bucket walls and the lid completely, as any plaster that hardens and falls into your mix will make it gritty and almost impossible to get a smooth application
- sometimes the easiest way makes the biggest mess but also often the quickest way will wind up taking more time in the long run. So really, its up to you… punch more holes and fix them later or figure out how to work with the holes you already have