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gmth's "9 reasons right now is awesome" meme.
1. The whole outside smells of rank, raw, funky mud. The sky is sodden wool, and a wet spring wind is tossing the trees about like moshers in the pit, and it's GLORIOUS! Only a few snow bones left in the deepest shadows, but they don't stop the world from smelling like life! We may get a snow sprinkle or two between now and Equinox, but Spring is here, Ladies and Gentlemen!
2. Dominus decided to work from home. I always have a better day when he does that. What can I say? I just like the man, and want him around.
3. He made me a peanut butter and marmalade sammich for my lunch. It's yummy!
4. The flooring was delivered this morning, and the workmen won't be back again until Tuesday. That means I can finally MOP down there! Or rather, I can use the mop to spread ever thinner coats of plaster-dust/soap emulsion around the floors. Until I run out of light, anyhow. My hope is that I'll be able to get it down to the point where I can spread some floor polish on the thing tonight, and then when we go to paint in there this weekend, we'll roll out paper, and cover it with painter's tarp. But honestly, I'll be happy just to get the front room, and the entryway clean enough that we and the cats aren't tracking dust all over anymore.
5. iTunes just popped out with Pirate Muppets. How can that not be utterly cool?
6. Bayou. No, seriously. Just go read it. There's nothing comic about this webcomic, but it's gorgeous all the same. Take Song of the South, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Coraline, Tales from the Crypt, and Swamp Thing, puree them, add a slurry of American folksong references, and cook in the pressures of Mississippi at 1930. Then schedule an afternoon to really appreciate the layers of the story.
7. Reading Watchmen graphic novel. See, I'm sure I'm gonna get raged here, but I don't buy into the whole 'Alan Moore's Genuis' gig. Yes, the story has layers. Yes, it stands up well as a metaphor for the whole American experience, yes, it's really well done, but I do not for a moment believe he sat down and planned all those layers out, did it all on purpose, and was the grand architect of a meticulously rendered plan. No. He wrote a story that really interested him. He gave it his all, and the artist carried off his end just as well, but that's all he did. Zeitgeist, and the spirit of a story that wanted to be written did the rest. I'm betting in his heart of hearts, he knows that most of the truly genuis moments, and layers to the work were accidents, or whims that he didn't really think through, but just answered some instinct of 'rightness' to put in. I'm betting he was surprised to see people finding all those diamonds in his work, really. And good for him, to have pulled that off, too! But he still only wrote a cool story, really. And I'm reading that cool story, and it's cool.
8. I got to see the chiropractor this morning. My back Made The Noise, and now I feel soooooo much better! I might even get to properly sleep tonight, if I'm lucky.
9.
Lookit what's on my desk. Just lookit that! How could that not qualify as "D'awwww!"
gmth's "9 reasons right now is awesome" meme.1. The whole outside smells of rank, raw, funky mud. The sky is sodden wool, and a wet spring wind is tossing the trees about like moshers in the pit, and it's GLORIOUS! Only a few snow bones left in the deepest shadows, but they don't stop the world from smelling like life! We may get a snow sprinkle or two between now and Equinox, but Spring is here, Ladies and Gentlemen!
2. Dominus decided to work from home. I always have a better day when he does that. What can I say? I just like the man, and want him around.
3. He made me a peanut butter and marmalade sammich for my lunch. It's yummy!
4. The flooring was delivered this morning, and the workmen won't be back again until Tuesday. That means I can finally MOP down there! Or rather, I can use the mop to spread ever thinner coats of plaster-dust/soap emulsion around the floors. Until I run out of light, anyhow. My hope is that I'll be able to get it down to the point where I can spread some floor polish on the thing tonight, and then when we go to paint in there this weekend, we'll roll out paper, and cover it with painter's tarp. But honestly, I'll be happy just to get the front room, and the entryway clean enough that we and the cats aren't tracking dust all over anymore.
5. iTunes just popped out with Pirate Muppets. How can that not be utterly cool?
6. Bayou. No, seriously. Just go read it. There's nothing comic about this webcomic, but it's gorgeous all the same. Take Song of the South, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Coraline, Tales from the Crypt, and Swamp Thing, puree them, add a slurry of American folksong references, and cook in the pressures of Mississippi at 1930. Then schedule an afternoon to really appreciate the layers of the story.
7. Reading Watchmen graphic novel. See, I'm sure I'm gonna get raged here, but I don't buy into the whole 'Alan Moore's Genuis' gig. Yes, the story has layers. Yes, it stands up well as a metaphor for the whole American experience, yes, it's really well done, but I do not for a moment believe he sat down and planned all those layers out, did it all on purpose, and was the grand architect of a meticulously rendered plan. No. He wrote a story that really interested him. He gave it his all, and the artist carried off his end just as well, but that's all he did. Zeitgeist, and the spirit of a story that wanted to be written did the rest. I'm betting in his heart of hearts, he knows that most of the truly genuis moments, and layers to the work were accidents, or whims that he didn't really think through, but just answered some instinct of 'rightness' to put in. I'm betting he was surprised to see people finding all those diamonds in his work, really. And good for him, to have pulled that off, too! But he still only wrote a cool story, really. And I'm reading that cool story, and it's cool.
8. I got to see the chiropractor this morning. My back Made The Noise, and now I feel soooooo much better! I might even get to properly sleep tonight, if I'm lucky.
9.
Lookit what's on my desk. Just lookit that! How could that not qualify as "D'awwww!"