jaynova

Oh Wozza, don't ever change....

 

Work's been disrupted by illnessand allergy attacks (the latter brought on by not being able to leave the house and work outside because of the fucking rain) over the last couple of weeks, so it's pretty much madness again right now. Ploughing away on DOKTOR SLEEPLESS. Batting around email on ASTONISHING X-MEN, trying to lock down the final details before I can start writing. Waiting on the new artist to get free to commence NEWUNIVERSAL, on which I'm thankfully a few full scripts ahead. Something else I'm trying to buy the time to think about.

Why is it so hard to get an artist for newuniversal? It's not his property; Mavel can assign someone, can't they?

I got a copy of american gods thanx to the amazing dogpoet, so i am reading that at the moment.

 

I am only up to chapter 2, but i am in love with this book already.

 

Ps: Is it weird that every time i read a book i imagine the characters as famous movie/televisions stars??

 

My shadow is the guy from the transporter and for some reason my Mr. Wednesday is giles from buffy

Haha!

I saw either the Rock or Vin Deisel as Shadow (it changed as I read it), and for some reason, Terrence Stamp as Wednesday.

Getting ready to read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marqez

Has anyone else noticed that Jay Nova hasn't been on here since he made that post about the mold and having an infection?

He hasn't E-mailed me back since then either.

I wonder if he died of black lung.....

 

Check his blog, he's alive and well.

So he's just avoiding us...or maybe just me....then.

Oh! Hello, all (Including Christian!)! I'm here...I've just been spending my time either (a) writing on my blog

b)Complaining about sickness, black mold, and tooth decay, or

c)Arguing with co-workers about why I think Dennis Kucinich should be our next president

Hang on, jay: flu as in influenza? A fever, aching joints the whole bit? Or a far nastier than usual cold?

 

Sorry to hear about your bathroom, though. How long's it going to take him to get it sorted?

Fever (100.5 F), aching joints, slept about 20 hours off and on)yesterday...feel much better today.

Bathroom is getting sorted (luckily I didn't have stomach flu!), but the landlord told me that if I use the toilet, I should wash my hair afterwords! (He was joking, of course...he meant that he was taking care of this, and sorry for the inconvenience)

For the time being, my bathroom is a biohazard (although the otter would argue that this is nothing new)

Uggg...

 

Black mold on the bathroom ceiling. Alergies/cold acting up, probably from that. Feel like SHHHIIIIITTTT. Body aches, throat hurts, snot drips from my nose. Tried to clean the mold only to have ceiling break away, due to water. Now, watter dripping from my ceiling...don't know if it's condensation or sewage.

Landlord checked it out. Sewage. Yeah.

He's taking care of it, and I'm driving to my mom's house to use the bathroom.

The good news is that my sickness appears to be the flu. And when you can say "The good news is that I have the flu," you know you're screwed.

Uggg...

Black mold on the bathroom ceiling. Alergies/cold acting up, probably from that. Feel like SHHHIIIIITTTT. Body aches, throat hurts, snot drips from my nose. Tried to clean the mold only to have ceiling break away, due to water. Now, watter dripping from my ceiling...don't know if it's condensation or sewage.

Saw Hot Fuzz, didn't like it as much as I liked Shaun, really.

Agreed. But them, I looooooved me some SotD.

What I wrote on my blog:

In another post, I mentioned that I thought the whole "everything from China is bad for us" snafu was part of a conspiracy to make Americans more suspicious of China, so that when they are our enemies in the new cold war, we accept them as enemies. I found more evidence.

 

On Lou Dobbs' show on CNN, on Tuesday, September 4, 2007, he discussed the new allegations that China hacked into the Pentagon's databases. In fact, I'm looking at the transcript, and he introduces the show by saying, "Meanwhile, the Pentagon is investigating reports that communist China hacked into the Defense Department's computer system." Note that he's careful to remind us that the Chinese are communists, subtley coloring the tone of the entire show.

 

I say "entire show" because it's not the only time he brings up China. When he gets to this story, he again reminds us of the politics of China when he says, "North Korea's closest ally, communist China, is suspected of launching a major cyber-attack against the Pentagon earlier this summer." Of course, if China did this, this is a hostile action. I'm not saying that China is innocent, I'm just pointing out the subliminal editorialising that is found not on Fox News, where one would expect it, but on CNN. I do think it is interesting that, during the story, Kurt Campbell, from the Center for a New American Security, said, "This is not an organization that, you know, you would be able to go into a building and find their offices and walk in and meet with them and talk with them." In other words, like our war on terror, the enemy here is invisible, which means that everyone in the country is a suspect.

 

Later, Dobbs received the "breaking news" that, "Mattel is set to recall seven hundred thousand more toys tomorrow, all of them made in communist China, because they may contain excessive amounts of lead paint." Again, not China, but communist China.

Again, maybe the problem is that bad; I have a friend who is originally from China, and she says that when she would visit her place of birth, her family has always warned her against buying Chinese products. My problem is the subtle commentary on the show.

 

The final piece of propaganda on this subject was during a story about the U.S. renting russion Antonov 124 transport planes to carry MRAP personel carriers to the middle east. At the end of the story, senior correspondant Jamie McIntyre reminds us that, "the U.S. contracted for a similar plane to bring the Navy EP-3 spy plane back from China back in 2001 when it needed to put all of the pieces of the plane on a single aircraft." In other words, in a story that has nothing to do with China, they managed to remind us of an incident in 2001 that we had with China.

 

All in all, I smell propaganda.

Read the transcript yourself HERE.

Finished the David Sirota book, started Michael Harrington's Socialism: Past and Future

 

:o

WANT!!!

The otter's family took me out to see an Indians game! It was the first one I've ever been to. They lost. :(

I'm also reading Various Voices by Harold Pinter. It's a collection mostly of Pinter's poetry, but there's some essays (eh), (I believe) the entirety of his short fiction work, and some political writings also included.

I could've done without the essays and am just skipping that section, but besides that, it's what I was looking for.

 

Hey! I'm reading 3 books at once! I'm just like you now, Jay! heh

Sure, one of the books is a collection of comics and another is a poetry collection.....he he

You really are like me...I'm still reading Camus' The Plague (I put it aside for a while), and Power of Slaves by Leonard Cohen! Oh! And that Essential Hulk collection!

I'm reading Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corporations Conquered Our Government--and How to Take It Back by David Sirota. Good, easy-to digest book about politics. My blood pressure rises every time I pick it up.

Roofie Roulette

 

This is some fucked up shit.

HA!

SLEEPY.

Went to bed at 11:00 pm so I could be up at 6am for work. At 11:20, my neighbors started fighting. As in, he tried to strangle her, then punched her in the face a few times and knocked her unconcious. Police were called, sherrifs arrived, and the neighbor tried to flee out the back, except that the cops knew to expect this and were waiting for him. Once inside, the domestic call became a drug bust. I overheard, "NOBODY has this much marijuana for personal use! That's a LOT of pot." Dogs were brought in. Of course, I had to listen in on the whole thing, so I didn't get to sleep until around 3 am.

Happy Birthday (belated) Malin & Grinning.

OOPS! Happy birfday!

Y'all missed Wolvy's birthday.

Happy Birfday, Randy!

This isn't me, it's my clone:

 

Is that a scope? On the bottom of it, that is?

An embarassing thing happened, though, I was feeling giddy afterwards and found myself singing O'Mally's bar, a couple of gears overheard me singing the 'I am tall and I am thing, of an envieable height' , which makes no sense since I'm a wee little man.

Maybe you just look tall and of an envieable height from a certain angle and a certain light.

I don't know how you could be "thing" though.

Although I suspect that Mobile phones wont actually save the Universe...but the saving of the universe will be filmed on a phone and then put on youtube.*

 

 

(and will obviously be tagged as 'Anal Spelunking Dog ass Fuckporn' so that people actually watch it)

 

 

 

 

 

* as Nostradamus foresaw.

Actually, the idea of mobile phones saving the universe plays a part in CLV! Then again, so does Godzilla bukakke, so whatever.

I hope to hear a lot of reviews of Crooked Little Vein here.

I have seen some good reviews also, John, but the good reviews mostly seem to come from people who a.)don't read comics or b.)love Warren Ellis comics more than life.

So, I'm really on the cusp about keeping this on my Must Read list or removing it.

Go ahead and read it. I have ADD, and I read it in 2 (plus 1 mini) sittings. It's 280 pages, but they are short pages, and some chapters only have 1 sentence.

Still, as has been said above, a lot of the things in it come directly from warrenellis.com.

Hey did anyone see last nights episode of Americas Next Top Uncle? Cause I friggin won,9 pounds and 1 ounce.Her name is Olivia.My sisters long pregnancy(a week and a half past due date she lasted!)was met with a rather quick ending early AM.I've been at work for over three hours and am still bumping into people who have yet to have heard from the father,who is a good friend and coworker of mine,and still on vacation to be with her.The mother is happy and healthy and I cannot tell you how much I enjoy saying that last part.

Congrats! Make sure she reads comic books as she grows (my first suscription was to Spider-man, at age 2)

Just started reading Crooked Little Vein, and I swear that every conversation goes like this:

Mike: "I'm McGill. I'm a private detective and shit-magnet."

Someone who is meeting Mike for the 1st time: "I'm dave. I'm a cab driver who likes to get gang-fucked by mechanical bulls. It's called 'mechabovinephilia', or 'psudobovinephilia', depending on who you ask. I also shoot heroin up my dick. Oh, and I like Bukkake, because it's the newest thing from Japan."