On this day in 2015
I knew when I decided to start doing this thing that there were going to be weeks when writing it felt like a battle. This was one of those weeks. But here we are anyway, with more breakfast food, dogs, and pyjamas. Open wide.
This week I went to see the Nats play for the first time this season. We lost, but honestly it was just really nice to sit outside in the breeze in the park with my team, eat a funnel cake, and completely cover myself in powdered sugar.
While I was there, I thought an awful lot about this incident of Caps fans at a NY Islanders game. We were playing the St. Louis Cardinals, and while they are not quite as hated as the Phillies or the Braves, they're still pretty unpopular as a team in these parts. That said, they're also a team with a lot of transplant fans, so there was a vocal presence of them at the game, many right near our seats. One woman was in a Cards shirt, and when it got chillier, she pulled on her Caps sweatshirt. So, yeah. Mixed loyalties. I've gone to a lot of sporting events over the course of my life, and there is nothing acceptable about feeling like you might be in danger of physical harassment by wearing the jersey of the visiting team to an arena.
Go to sports games, cheer for your team. Let other people cheer for their team. It's cool to be super passionate, just, you know...
Notable Breakfast
Eggs with scallions, apple chicken sausage, toast, and berries with granola.
Dog Thing
Mixed Media
All I did for 7 days was watch the Star Wars trailer. I mean, not literally. But, pretty literally. I watched it a lot. I know a lot of folks completely flipped for the last few seconds of the trailer (with good reason), but honestly, I am Most Psyched for the new characters.
I want to know who these people are. I completely lost it when John Boyega's face showed up in the first trailer, and this one has only increased the losing-of-my-shit. My shit is gone. (Btw, if you still need a reason to be excited about Boyega, you should probably watch Attack the Block. This applies to all people who have not watched Attack the Block.) I predict complete incoherence the week of December 18th. Possibly for the whole month of December, who knows.
Also: Passion Pit released a new album and I dig it, but the best track by far is "Lifted Up" (and not just because it repeatedly tells you that the year I was born was a good year).
I Read Comics for a Living
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #4 answers the question "what would happen if Squirrel Girl faced off against Galactus all by herself on the moon?" The answer is, she would win, of course. But the real answer is the friends she makes along the way (spoiler: some of them are squirrels). This comic is great. This comic is, for me, the first time my mom heard Queen's "Fat-Bottomed Girls" and exclaimed "it's a song all about us!" This is that comic.
Also good:
Effigy #4 Are you reading Effigy? You should be reading Effigy. It's about a girl who was on a Power Rangers-type show about space cops as a kid, only now she's an adult and her acting career is in the tank, so she's gone back to her hometown of Effigy, OH, and is a real cop. The kind who writes parking tickets. Naturally, there's a murder that ties back to her tv show, and so she's brought in. I was hooked on the comic on the premise alone, and each issue throws more at me that I love. Some plusses, Feminist Mind Virus-style: it's got great racial representation, as well as a main character who is openly trans.
Kaptara #1 New sci-fi comic about a ship full of explorers which crash-lands on a planet faaaar outside of what they're prepared for. It's a little bit John Carter of Mars, a little bit Star Trek, and considerably mad. The art is fantastic, the writing is funny as hell, and not for nothing, the protagonist is gay. It's a good time.
Star Wars #4 This was just a really good week for sci-fi comics. The new ongoing Star Wars stuff has been bridging the gap between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back in a really excellent way. I particularly like that we're getting to see Luke, Leia, and Han going about the little parts of a rebellion--running raids, and cutting off supply lines. We're seeing Vader do some of the reverse of that, too.
Cleopatra in Space 2: The Thief and the Sword Cleopatra in Space is a fantastic series of graphic novels for kids about the young Cleopatra getting zapped forward in time to a distant future where she is the subject of a prophesy to save the galaxy. In order to do so, she's been enrolled in a school where she's learning to do stuff like fire ray guns and break into secure facilities. The design is very space age ancient Egypt, the instructor are all cats, and it is Cute As Heck.
Anxiety Pyjamas
ASOS Chelsea Peers Watermelon Jogger PJ Lounge Set
Fics I Shouted About
Putting the F-U-N in Funeral by apocryphal Teen Wolf, Sterek, Human AU. Derek works for his family's funeral home, Stiles is a baker who accidentally involves Derek in a prank. It is very, very sweet.
Lastly
Today is my best bud Adam's 30th birthday. He's the one responsible for the name of this thing, so I figured that deserved a shout-out.
(this is also an accurate summary of our relationship)
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