I picked up the first volume of The Complete Peanuts a few days ago. The early stuff is great. I scanned in my favorite strip so far. (Hopefully, the Schultz estate won’t mind.) It’s a beautifully designed book, and the strips are wonderful. I doubt I’ll be buying the whole run — it’ll take 25 volumes over 12 years — but I’m probably in for the next few, at least.
Author: Andrew Huey
Sinfest
Another great Sinfest today. I always like comic strips that make fun of other strips.
Blogger
Looks like there’s a bunch of new stuff going on with Blogger. The new look is cute, and posting from Mozilla seems to work better than it used to. Nice. (This, by the way, is post #342 to my blog, according to the new counter on the “dashboard” page.)
Pat
I just posted some old pictures of my brother Pat. Here they are. These are from 1984 or thereabouts. I like these. Most of them are pretty goofy, but it looks like we were having a good time.
Chris Whitley
There are two new Chris Whitley albums out on Messenger Records, and you can only buy them direct from their web site. I haven’t heard either one yet, but they should be good.
Hellboy
Barbelith
Barbelith — interesting little discussion site. I found it while looking for some info on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume 2, which I am now reading, but only “getting” about 10% of, maybe.
Sinfest
I like today’s Sinfest a lot.
Microsoft Reader
I’m very frustrated with Microsoft Reader. I wanted to start reading The Subtle Knife, book two of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, today. My little Pocket PC would not cooperate. First, MS Reader would just give me errors. Uninstalling, reinstalling, reactivating — nothing worked. Eventually, the device wound up getting stuck in such a way that I could not reset it, no way, no how. I’ve got it going again, after flipping the “last-ditch” switch that wipes the memory completely, restoring it to factory defaults. I’ve got it working again, but really I shouldn’t have to spend more than an hour just trying to get to the point where I can read a book. Back to paper, dang it.