sunday geekdom

today mostly involves art messing and my second listen to of the highly entertaining dr who audio drama Bang-Bang-A-Boom, which was a very welcome surprise gift from the lovely dr Joel.
it’s lots of fun and full of eurovision song contest humour.

i just finished Watchmen the other night. i ended up spinning it out as long as i could. don’t know what to say other than it’s a piece of freaking brilliance and lived up to all recommendations. lovedit. i think i’ll be following in my brother’s footsteps and make reading it an annual tradition.

next up Persepolis, which i suspect is going to be even more affecting in light of the past week’s (ongoing) events…

LB

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look familiar? ikon used detail from one of the lovely todd greene’s amazing artworks. click here for more of his work. then covet. and perhaps purchase.

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i headed into the city yesterday for a meet-and-greet conversation on behalf of ikon and detoured down to the Dáil a couple of hours after the march of solidarity (report here) to view the ribbons, children’s shoes, flowers and placards that had been tied to and placed at the gates. the crowds had dispersed and the barriers folded away…

(molesworth street, dublin)

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while in town, i had *intended* to pick up some academic texts that i’m looking to read before i get back to university. somehow i ended up in a comic store instead. oops. i picked up a copy of Persepolis, long overdue, and i now know where and when i can get my mitts on a copy of the collected edition of gaiman’s recent Batman 2 parter, whatever happened to the caped crusader? and as if to remind me why i knew when i started reading graphic novels that i’d need to resist compulsive tendencies, it didn’t end there…

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and so it is that after several years of persistent-and-rather-shameful-not-getting-around-to-it, i’m finally reading, Watchmen.

it all looks amazing, the story is unputdownable, and this paperback edition feels gorgeous. i wish all books would be printed in this format. it’s kind of floppy and the pages have a lovely texture.

the likelihood of me changing out of my sweats today, let alone doing anything remotely productive, is gonna be a challenge. the list of academic books will have to wait…

LB