Walking on the Moon

John Heidemann was kind enough to provide a Fedora 7 grap binary RPM.  It’s also available from the grap page.

I finally read Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, and put up a short review on Bell, Book, and Candle.

Man, what a long day.

Lots to do, and a bad landing light started a chain of events that’s keeping me from meeting a buddy in Vegas tomorrow.

And Bruce Campbell’s still living my perfect life.

• Will Eisner’s The Spirit #4 and #6
  • Still good to the last drop.  And it is Eisner’s Spirit, not really Cook, Bone, and Stewart’s.  They’re doing a remarkable job channeling Eisner and delivering all the ingredients in a singular genre – Spirit stories.  Even the visual tropes are Eisner, updated for the 21st century – #4 is really sharp in this regard, both the Spirit and Ebony and the Spirit and Dolan have a scenes where the dialog works because of the visual.  A great book; if you found the Spirit reprints off-putting because of the 40’s trappings and stereotypes, give this a try.
  • Sig Fodder: “I mean we have to draw the line.  No dairy, peanut free, donuts make you fat … fine.  But the coffee – all I’m asking is that my coffee taste like coffee, not some new age banana split for fitness freaks.” — Dolan with his finger on the pulse of the key to police work, #6
• Captain America #26
  • Brubaker seems to be trying to hold his story together with the storm of Civil War boiling all around him.  It’s heavy going at places, but though the deck’s pitching some, it remains enjoyable.  Bucky’s resolve at the end of the issue is the first wrong note for that character, and that worries me.  I’ll stick around a while yet.
  • Sig Fodder: “… some of his science is not science if you get my meaning” — Arnim Zola on Victor Von Doom (the attribution alone makes me a little tingly.)
• Batman and the Mad Monk
  • This is the second of Matt Wagner’s excellent retellings of Golden Age Batman storylines in the framework of Miller’s Batman: Year One.  If you’re a comics fan from the 80’s (like me) that’s an irresistable package.  Even if you’re not, this is great stuff.  Wagner’s plotting is clear and strong, and he’s got a really good feel for Batman.  He communicates Batman’s obsession without making him inhuman and builds up a vary plausible world about him.  It’s an joy for long underwear fans everywhere.

Wellington Grey has pointed out the fantastic dangers of wireless routers. Fortunately I’ve de-fanged mine by running Linux on it.

Here is exactly how I imagined the perfect life in 1985. It doesn’t surprise me that Bruce Campbell is living it.

Sad though it is to say, on further reflection, it may actually be Wil Wheaton who’s living my perfect life.

While I’m busy telling jokes no one will get, I should mention that my old 8th grade swim team were all certainly sad to hear about the damage to the Cutty Sark.

Warren Ellis has a link to an animation of one of my favorite Spider Jerusalem rants.

Get psyched for Tron!

There are about 4 people in the world that joke is intended for, but it is the 25th anniversary of Tron.

A few words about The Johnstown Flood are up on Bell, Book, and Candle.