This shots were taken on a recent day here in Jackson when my camera only wanted to do blown-out, washed out images. So I let it. The top two are in or around the old LeFleur’s Cadillac place in State Street; I always liked that lonely desk, and you can spot the old fleur-de-lis emblem on the gallery window in the second shot. The others are Riverside Drive after some rain.
Yeah, this is the second time I’ve used this title. What can I say? It just fit right.
Bama plays Vandy this Saturday, and since Comcast betrayed me last time, I’m really excited about, you know, watching a game. Most folks are treating this as a decently serious test of our mettle—against Vandy, I know! But they’ve been secreting building strength over the past few years while we’ve been sluicing it. I think that’s the word. Sluice. Right? Like, through a sieve?
The draft of the second Sandusky Review has been pronounced “not half bad” and I really, really want to have it done by Monday. Just putting the finishing touches on the last one took a whole day, so I’m trying to plod along, but comics and records keep getting in the way. It’s hard to get to work when Action Island has stuffed a complete run of the new Green Lantern Corps in the dollar box—with some pretty bang-up stories by Dave Gibbons, who throws in some interior art and a cover once and a while, too.
Also: yes, I lost my bet. Roy has said “pay me my five dollars immediately.” On the other hand, DJP called and said “instead of a measly five bucks, I’m just going to hold this over your head the rest of our lives.”
GL Corps has a new book?! Is it any good? I got some fo the New Avengers and the Mighty Avengers and they are both good to read. Also I read two issues of the Frank Miller/Jim Lee Batman comic and they are some of the worst Batman comics I’ve ever read. The characters speak like Miller never finshed the script.
It’s like he was telling it to Jim Lee over the phone while driving in his car and eating Taco Bell…”...yeah, give ‘em all big boobs…uh-huh, even Batgirl…right and then Wonder Woman will say something like: “I hate your guts! You make me sick!” and then, I don’t know, she’ll say it again and then storm out. Hold on I spilled chalupa all over my shirt! Dammit! I’m gonna have to call you back, but you get the idea! Just give her big boobs and put a bunch of extra lines on everything to make it look all scratchy and crappy, whatever you normally do, I gotta go.” click But Jim Lee took him literally and actually made her say “I hate your guts! You make me sick!”...twice. (Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder, Issue 5, page 7…panels 3, 4 and 5).
Booster Gold #2 needs to hurry the hell up! I bought an issue of She-Hulk today, along with a Grant Morrison Batman comic and a Black Canary comic that I will not go into detail about here.
Where should I send payment for Sandusky #2? I’m payin early in hopes that I’ll actually get one sooner than a couple months after publication. (snark)
I’m digging the weird tar-and-paint abstract thing going on in panel 4.
The new Grant Morrison/JH Williams Batman issues are the first ones that are anything like what I imagined Morrison’s Batman could be like.
OK…So, how much for the 4 polaroids? Cause if I ever had a solo record, the photo with “this” written on it is sooooooo the cover. Perfect, washed-out bliss.
I think it is important to keep in mind that djp is currently making infinitely more money than I am. I NEEDED that five dollars. Also, simply because you paid me doesn’t mean I won’t hold it over your head.