sleeping beauty

Not sure what's going on, but these days I wake up after 6am, and could probably keep on sleeping. I don't feel sick.
("But you are, my dear. You are.")
Hush, Bette Davis.

In other news, I have the minivan today, which means peeking at the bookstore's wares on the way back from work.

acquired today

Acquired today at Barnes & Noble... Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird", and Kari Sperring's fantasy novel "The Grass King's Concubine". Why that last book? I was looking at the store's new-F/SF section, thinking about all those people who put themselves on display hoping to draw our attention, and I felt that I owed them some acknowledgement of their existence. I looked among the many offering and this one called to me the most.

the calming influence of the vino

Having some wine.
Need its calming influence.
Yes, work again.

the Green what?

With Brubaker's departure from "Captain America" as its writer for ten years, I was a bit leery, wondering who would replace and whether or not anybody could replace him. Still, I was going to give it a chance. Until tonight. I had picked up a free Marvel sampler of things to come at the comic-store and I couldn't believe what I saw. I mean, Cap fighting a hippie who calls himself the Green Skull because he's all for a Green Earth without us around, and spewing all the clichés one could think of, going so far as to call Cap a fascist? Well, Marvelites, there goes the last mainstream comic-book I was still buying.

I wonder when the next issue of "Atomic Robo and the She-devils of the Pacific" is coming out.