Thursday evening my wife handed me the camera and sent me outside to snap some photos of this critter who was hanging out on the rose bushes.
Ok comic fans, the Year Two collection of the webcomic is now available in dead tree format!
And in about two weeks I’ll be looking at putting together the Year Three collection. Funny how time flies.
Yes, I know today is talk like a pirate day… Sorry, that should say “today be talk like a pirate day”… But this week’s comic is about a subject too important to risk obfuscating it with convoluted verbiage.
Matey.
Arr.
So, I sometimes get insomnia. Usually I can get past it by watching a movie or listening to music. A couple nights ago I had a bout of insomnia and decided to combine the two by firing up Netflix and seeing what they had for streaming movies about music. I found an interesting sounding documentary: “A to Zeppelin – the Unauthorized Story of Led Zeppelin.”
How “Unauthorized” was it? It was so unauthorized that they didn’t have permission to play any actual songs by Led Zeppelin. They got early publicity stills, they got interviews with the band’s contemporaries and early influences, they’ve got everything for a blow-out retrospective. Except for any actual music by the actual band.
Dwell on that for a moment, because that’s what ruined this movie.
I finally turned it off after the third or fourth interview with a 70’s rocker who was going on about how he was talking with “Bonzo” Bonham about how his drumming on Moby Dick changed his own band’s sound. That sort of interview is absolutely pointless if you don’t then go and play either Moby Dick or the other band’s tune or, preferably, bits of both.
Final grade: D.
This week’s comic is far from the worst thing one might find in a British cookbook from the Elizabethan era.
So, I’m testing out a bit of tech right now… Nix has an iPod touch, with the wireless web access and swivel screen and on-screen keyboard and everything. She’s letting me fiddle with it for a bit and I figured I’d see how my bulky fingers worked with it.