Monday, February 06, 2023

This Year: 1975

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"This Year" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song from one year of my life. See the introduction for more. I've li...
Sunday, February 05, 2023

Reviewing the Mail: Week of February 4, 2023

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Two more books from the library for this week. What more can I say about that category? Even at my age, the fact that I can look something u...
Saturday, February 04, 2023

Books Read: January 2023

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As always, this is is almost entirely for Future Me, which is why I forget to do it regularly and bury it on the weekends when I do  remembe...

Quote of the Week: He Had a Hat!

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Like so much of Jewish culture, kvetching has its roots in the Bible, which devotes a great deal of time to the nonstop grumblings of the Is...
Friday, February 03, 2023

Steeple, Vol. 3: That's the Spirit! by John Allison with Sammy Borras

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The third collection of John Allison's Steeple comics is a big, capacious thing, with one long Steeple  story, a short Steeple  story to...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

Mudman, Vol. 1 by Paul Grist

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This is nearly everything, but not quite  everything. Mudman  ran for six issues from Image in 2011-2013, and the first five of those issues...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Born to Kvetch by Michael Wex

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I am not  going to write this post in any attempt at faux-Yiddish; that would only embarrass both of us. In fact, I think I'll try to be...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

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Anyone who's traveled in the lands of SF has heard the complaints about worldbuilding: too much research and not enough life, a love of ...
Monday, January 30, 2023

This Year: 1974

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"This Year" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song from one year of my life. See  the introduction  for more. I don'...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Reviewing the Mail: Week of January 28, 2023

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This week I have two library books to write about, and these are them: Kid Gloves , Lucy Knisley's 2019 book about her pregnancy. My lib...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Quote of the Week: You Are What You Eat

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They were nice people and they paid her well enough, and on time, which meant something. They always told her she could have whatever was in...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Signal to Noise by Neil Gaiman and David McKean

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This is the story of a prominent filmmaker, in the middle of his career, about to embark on what he thinks would be his masterwork, who pref...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Philip K. Dick: A Comics Biography by Laurent Queyssi and Mauro Marchesi

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Every life is a story. I definitely believe that. Every life can be told, in some way, as some kind of story, in a meaningful way. But that ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Neom by Lavie Tidhar

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Some books are about story; some books are about place; some books are about people. And some are about ideas or wordplay or, sadly, making ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

12 by Manix Abrera

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You don't have  to revisit works of art you loved to check your opinions. No one will force you. But, if you loved it the first time, yo...