Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but it’s cool that my book Now and Then We Time Travel has been footnoted in an academic paper, Paradoxes of Time Travel in Juliusz Machulski’s Cinema. It’s not the first time I’ve been cited either.
I am not, however, the F. Sherman cited in Engineered Yeasts Simulating P450-DEPENDENT Metabolisms: Tricks, Myths and Reality (an academic website asked). While I have a biology background, I do not even know what that means.
This was a hectic week, though I knew some of that going in. Vet appointment Tuesday for the dogs, lunch with friends Wednesday, doctor’s appointment for myself Thursday. I’m always a little morbid about my checkups, thinking I’ll hear horrible news (“Your cholesterol number would look really good … if you were 100 pounds of yak butter.”). Nope, cholesterol is good, weight is better than I expected, other stuff looks good. Yay.
On top of all that, the dogs put us through the wringer. Trixie had several days of night squirtles; unlike her usual, which is going out every hour or so, it was one runny poop a night, one or two hours after midnight. That’s passed but Plushie had a midnight puke the past couple of nights. So not a lot of sleep — Thursday I just threw up my hands at writing anything requiring thought.
Still I got some movies watched for Jekyll and Hyde, worked on Savage Adventures and got some Local Reporter work in: a story on the new Carrboro librarian and a look at sidewalk and bike path funding in Carrboro. Over at Atomic Junk Shop I blog about comics’ boom in horror at the end of the 1960s, three different types of heroes and comics trying to deal with the youthquake of the era. Below we have the Teen Titans from one of those stories of youth, before they shucked their costumes for a string of politically relevant storylines.
I have no idea why Lilith, clearly not Asian in Nick Cardy’s art, is identified as “the enigma of the East.”
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