Author: Andrew Huey

heat wave

After working in an office without air conditioning for the last two days, I’m ready to get out of New Jersey and head off to San Diego. The temperature outside in NJ was about 99 degrees today. In our office, it got up to 87 at one point. In San Diego, it was only about 78 outside today. Nice.

They got the A/C in the office fixed at around 3pm today, so it should be fine in the office for the rest of the week. I’d still rather be in S.D. though!

Infinite Crisis

I just started reading Infinite Crisis. This site has some nice notes explaining the many references in each issue. Whatever happened to footnotes in comics? In this case, I guess, the footnotes would have gotten quite overwhelming. Still, it’s weird to pick up a book like this and not get maybe half the references, despite having read a number of the prequel stories and having at least some knowledge of the other stories via the web.

World Cup

Well, Italy won the World Cup about an hour ago, and the crazed, drunken fans are still running around up and down Main St., waving flags, yelling, and generally carrying on. A while ago, there was a guy running around in the middle of the street with an Italian flag in one hand and a beer bottle in another. I’m guessing somebody gets hits by a truck within the next half-hour or so.

Kung-Fu films

Heroic Grace II and Shaw Brothers Classics: classic martial arts (and related) movies at Lincoln Center. Some of this stuff overlaps with the San Diego con, so I’m going to have to miss some great stuff, like Dirty Ho, which I’ve wanted to see for a while now. (Alas, no domestic DVD available.)