Last weekend we bought our Christmas tree.
We had to change things up from last year because the cats’ litter boxes sit where we normally put the tree. With a little rearranging of the living room, sticking it near the French doors worked out well.
TYG bought a lot of bird ornaments for the tree, some of which are visible in the photo. I think the weirdest one is the vulture.
Snowdrop was not at all happy with this big thing we brought into the house. He went and hid upstairs in the master bedroom.
This was a productive week. My brain is in high gear working on Jekyll and Hyde, the kind of intense state where I have a hard time getting up from the computer to exercise, stretch, etc. Which I regret after a few hours but I need that intensity to finish the book. I got a lot of polishing done this week, as well as some research reading and watching the 1982 and 1996 Incredible Hulk cartoons.
Over at The Local Reporter I wrote about Carrboro’s downtown plan, profiled outgoing council member Randee Haven-O’Donnell and a Saturday event marking the day the Thirteenth Amendment ended legal slavery (though as the article notes, some people found a workaround). At Atomic Junkshop I looked back at the mystery of why, after 18 months without buying comics, I suddenly picked up Teen Titans #32 (cover by Nick Cardy).
I also looked at how the sword-and-sorcery genre in Bronze Age comics did not begin with DC’s Nightmaster.
If Denny O’Neil’s writing were as cool as that Joe Kubert cover, perhaps it would have.
That’s my week. As usual these posts are less memorable when things are going well. I’m okay with that.
