Mostly his successors (esp. Hulagu); Tamim Ansary's really good on this (or at least the popular perception thereof) in Destiny Disrupted.

That ought to be interesting (not that they ever aren't, but you know what I mean); I can kinda see how WD was so controversial, but I can also understand Fuller's contextual annoyance at interference with the movie (complicated by my own take that it was just a so-so movie in the end despite strong turns from both…

In the middle right now of Ripper Street, Series 4. From a kinda lackluster Victorian procedural in the beginning, it's sure come a long way, especially in terms of Jerome "Bronn" Flynn's Drake (and Neville Longbottom as the desk sergeant!). That despite the odd historical inaccuracy (usually American-oriented; the…

I just saw Flaneuse in my LBS last night; sometimes I wish I didn't have such an ironclad rule against buying (new) hardbacks (picked up Patrick Hoare's book on whales instead). Can't wait to get around to it when it finally goes paper (to say nothing of all the tantalizing HC histories that are out right now).

Saga #44: I kinda see what you're saying, but I wouldn't be too sure, given some of the Internet outrages that kick off over silly shit all the time (railing against "SJWs", etc.). That said, it does feel like throwing stuff to a wall and waiting, but at least the stuff's cool… for now.

Not bad, I guess. Spent most of my day off yesterday cataloging local Civil War-era graves for a half-assed project I've been working on for a few years. Behind on one webcomic but starting to put together another that's been in gestation in various forms for almost a year. Hoping, though, to catch up on the former…

The thing is, the ones that turn up on my front step aren't (for the most part, I think) homeless; there's a low-income housing tower block just down the street where I know quite a few of them live. That said, it must be pretty shitty in there and I don't begrudge them hanging out in open areas. But there are more…

Oh, they're a lost cause. If I ever decide to try container gardening at my place, some kind of chicken wire's gonna be an absolute necessity.

I didn't know Black Magick was back (even if it's just for a bit)!!! Also picked up the latest Horizon, Saga and Conan the Slayer.

Really sorry to hear this, IU; many condolences and saddened to hear you're going through all this in such a short time.

Planning to refurbish a North African-inspired lamb tart recipe for a staff contest; hopefully will have more info next week.

The slow, tedious co-worker's planning to harass vets with PTSD at a local park and has invited everyone, but fuck that. We close early; I'll probably just grab a sixpack and sit out on my front step thinking patriotic thoughts or some such.

One 24 oz. Sierra Nevada Torpedo. That's been it for a week and a half.

Fuck shooing the same bum away from my front step three times in two days; they've clearly taken the five seconds necessary to learn that my landlady's gimcrack fake lock solution on the back gate didn't work.

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Bod Dylan – Visions of Johanna
The Undertones – Jump Boys
The Go! Team – Doing It Right
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I was in my early twenties when the series started, and a little older when it hit the other side of the Atlantic, so catching up was an interesting experience. I enjoyed it, but it was hard for me to get into the mania—I'd already "been there done that" with Tolkien worship and I was never all that into the latter in…

There's always room for ketchup, at least when eating certain foods. It doesn't have the potential snob appeal of certain mustards and mayos, but fuck that (I try not to hit the reverse snob pedal too often, but I work in the industry and it's hard not to keep my eyes from rolling even more than they already do).