Archive for December 15th, 2009
50BC09: Book Number 46
December 15th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Blame Canada for this one, denizens. More precisely, blame one of my awesome Canadian ImagiFriendsTM.
“Blame” seems like too harsh a word, however. How about “thank”? Or, even better, “praise”? Yes, praise. Let us now praise my lovely Canadienne ImagiFriendTM, who bestowed her own copy of Joe Ollmann’s This Will All End In Tears to me upon our first meeting (of hopefully many).
You know the meaning of the word “serendipity”? No? Well, here: “The faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.”
This book was a gift of serendipity from a serendipitous friendship. It is a graphic novel comprised of five tales of emotional variances: “Big Boned,” “Day Old,” “Oh Deer,” “They Filmed a Movie Here Once,” and “Hanging Over.”
There is something beautifully fractured in each of these stories, something fragile that you recognize instantly as a part of yourself, drawn out there for you in black and white and all those glorious shades of gray (grey?). The final story in particular crept under my skin where it resides still. Aspects of it hit a nerve that left me quite discomfited…as good writing is apt to do.
Plus, how do you not love a book that includes a graphic depiction of someone accidentally ripping the front legs off a deer carcass?
Even better? This is the book that I proudly pulled out of my backpack and started to read in front of the woman I shamed into hiding her copy of New Moon. Yeah, that’s right! This is what a real book looks like!
Final score: 5/5. There wasn’t a moment while reading this that I wasn’t completely entertained. The title has now also become one of my favorite things to say at work…particularly at the beginning of staff meetings. Bonus 
I Think You Should Have Made a Left at Amphipolis…
December 15th, 2009 at 11:44 am
…because that blond woman next to you ain’t Gabrielle.
Want to know the sad truth about this photo? Not only did I immediately recognize it as from a photo shoot done for TV Guide back in, I believe, 1997…but I also actually have the TV Guide that had this as its cover photo.
Yes, I am one of those people who used to save TV Guides. Back in the day when they were the little Reader’s Digest-sized things, not the groovy magazine-style format they are today. I have more of these things saved than I care to confess at this time.
This post isn’t about me embarrassing myself (more than usual) with silly packrat confessions, however. This post is instead to share with my geeky denizens the wonder of TrekCore.com. Particularly their Rare Photos section. There are some excellent photos all throughout the site, but I especially enjoyed scoping out the rarities and seeing sides of some of my favorite Trek characters/actors that weren’t often seen.
Like Seven of Nine looking like she’s about to feel up Xena. Seriously, what’s up with that awkward pose? I get that the photographer was trying to showcase the Borg implants on her hand…but doesn’t it look like she’s about to reach out and grab a handful of copper breastplate? And where exactly is Xena’s other hand? What the hell is going on in this photo?!
To find the answers to these and many more burning questions, I strongly suggest you follow the above links and check out TrekCore for yourself.
[Okay, so none of the above questions will be answered at TrekCore, but you should still go there. Loba's orders.]
