I just found out the Simon in Simon & Schuster was Carly Simon's father. Already known: Adam Scott and Jon Hamm recreating the intro to SIMON & SIMON was the Greatest Event in Television History
Slogging my way through this whole "We Are Yesterday" building up to "DC KO" storyline, and I've read so many crossover comics events but this has to be the most incomprehensible heap of garbage I've yet to encounter. It genuinely makes me regret giving DC more of a chance over the past couple years
So this DC KO business, this looked like a goofy tie-in to a mobile game that I could just ignore. But this is actually the main DC continuity? This is, for real, what all the DC books are going to be about for the next few months? A March Madness bracket? Wait, what? Come on. Seriously? Come on.
I would say every ICE agent thinks that in the Diary of Anne Frank, Anne was the bad guy, but that's just beyond belief, as if anyone in ICE has read a book
I should know by now. One mention of a legend on my timeline, "Oh, that's nice." Two mentions...
RIP Diane Keaton. I'll mention a movie no one else has yet, a movie that basically doesn't exist anymore, which I saw way too young and has an ending that scarred my little mind, LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
Let's Go Bowling! Blake Babies! Bim Skala Bim! Am I in college again? Kind of! I'm rereading BILL & TED comics by @evandorkin.bsky.social and enjoying the band shout-outs on t shirts and posters. Comics should be fun, and these are!
This is nice. I should get back to my Peter David HULK re-reading project. I took a detour midway through to read some of his STAR TREK stuff, including a bunch of comics and a couple novels, just to change things up. Maybe I'll go through FALLEN ANGEL at some point, too
Kathleen DAvid is up to accept the HoF award for Peter David, "Peter is now a ghost writer," she says"He meant a lot to comics in general and he was proud of what he did. He was proud of the fact that his was a voice that could shout and be heard - not always agreed with but at least heard." #nycc
So this DC KO business, this looked like a goofy tie-in to a mobile game that I could just ignore. But this is actually the main DC continuity? This is, for real, what all the DC books are going to be about for the next few months? A March Madness bracket? Wait, what? Come on. Seriously? Come on.
CURRENT READING: Kazuo Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO. I'm surprised to realize I've only ever read Ishiguro's 1st 3 books, the 3rd of which, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, is one of the ten best books I've ever read. Looking forward to this, despite already knowing more about the story than I probably should
RECENT READING: Travis Baldree's LEGENDS & LATTES. A cozy fantasy that was TOO cozy for me. Not much happens, which is kind of the point of "cozy," but I didn't get to know or much like spending time with the characters, which is also the point. Nebula AND Hugo nominations for Best Novel? For this?
A man goes to a newspaper stand every day, buys a copy, glances at the front, and throws it away. After a few weeks the seller asks "Why do you always look at the cover but never inside?" "I'm looking for an obituary." "But those are in the back!" "The one I'm looking for will be on the front page."
I learned the hard way when I lived in Austin that "Manor" is "Mainer," "Guadalupe" is "Guadaloop," and if you say "Burnet" like Carol Burnett instead of "BURN it," you'll get a "You ain't from around here, are you?"
I worked on Burnet Road in Austin. Locals pronounce it not like Carol Burnett, but "BURN it." Once I answered the work phone and was asked for the address, and I said it the 1st way (that's how our tv ads said it!). There was a long pause, then, accusingly: "You ain't from around here, are you?"
The first thing that comes to mind is not relatively recent pop culture, but that there were still wooly mammoths alive when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built
