Tuesday, January 15, 2019

post holiday options post

Still reading 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene for maybe a couple more weeks. Afterwards I will begin reading Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk since Clemson won the CFB option. Congratulations again Tigers! Enjoy those happy meals.
After I read Pygmy I'll read one of the newer books I recently ordered from Amazon. That means it's NFL option time. Here goes:

AFC Championship
Kansas City Chiefs (The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North)
vs.
New England Patriots (But What if We're Wrong? - Chuck Klosterman)

NFC Championship
New Orlenas Saints (The Drawing of the Dark - Tim Powers)
vs.
Los Angeles Rams (Lucky Alan and Other Stories - Jonathan Lethem)

The Super Bowl is not till February 3rd. Hopefully I'll have started reading Pygmy by then. It usually doesn't take me two months to read a book, unless it's really long(500-1000 pages) or written by Robert Greene.

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

kudos

best of 2018: books 
Beneath London - James P. Blaylock 
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk 
The Wastelands - Stephen King

graphic novels
Thanos Rising - Jason Aaron 
The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk - Greg Pak
The Infinity Gauntlet - Jim Starlin
Thor vol. 1 - J. Michael Straczynski
Longshot - Ann Nocenti

galactic avengers

Guardians of the Galaxy 
Cosmic Avengers 

Monday, December 31, 2018

2018

All the Books I read this year
  1. Shadow of the Giant - Orson Scott Card 
  2. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk 
  3. The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce*
  4. Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi - Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose
  5. Doctor Strange: Mr. Misery - Jason Aaron
  6. Thor vol. 1 - J. Michael Straczynski
  7. Avengers vol. 5 - Brian Michael Bendis
  8. World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - Frank Tieri
  9. Downtown Owl - Chuck Klosterman 
  10. Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov 
  11. Invincible Iron Man: Demon - Matt Fraction
  12. Guardians of the Galaxy: Emperor Quill - Brian Michael Bendis
  13. Captain America vol. 2 - Dan Jurgens
  14. Beneath London - James P. Blaylock 
  15. Doctor Strange: Flight of Bones - Dan Jolley
  16. Thor vol. 2 - J. Michael Straczynski
  17. Loki: Agent of Asgard: Trust Me - Al Ewing
  18. Thor vol. 3 - J. Michael Straczynski
  19. Deadpool: Original Sin - Brian Posehn
  20. Diary - Chuck Palahniuk 
  21. Vote Loki - Christopher Hastings
  22. Legendary Star Lord: Out of Orbit - Sam Humphries
  23. Gone Bamboo - Anthony Bourdain
  24. Loki: Agent of Asgard: I Cannot Tell a Lie - Al Ewing
  25. Thor: Wolves of the North - Mike Carey
  26. Loki: Agent of Asgard: Last Days - Al Ewing
  27. Thor: The Trials of Loki - Roberto Aguire - Sacasa
  28. Marvel Visionaries: Incredible Hulk - John Byrne
  29. The Wastelands - Stephen King
  30. Thor: For Asgard - Robert Rodi
  31. Indestructable Hulk: Gods and Monsters - Mark Waid
  32. Marvel Visionaries: Thor - Mike Deodato Jr.
  33. Longshot - Arthur Adams and Ann Nocenti
  34. Comics and Sequential Art - Will Eisner
  35. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
  36. Avengers: A Year in the Life of Vision and The Scarlet Witch - Steve Englehart
  37. Thor: Deviants Saga - Robert Rodi
  38. Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Complete Collection - Bill Mantlo
  39. Astonishing Thor - Robert Rodi
  40. Our Friends From Frolix 8 - Philip K. Dick
  41. X-Babies Classic - Chris Claremont
  42. Thor and Iron Man: God Complex - Dan Abnett
  43. Thanos Rising - Jason Aaron
  44. Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk - Greg Pak
  45. The Big AHA - Rudy Rucker
  46. Doctor Strange: What is it That Disturbs you Stephen? - Russell P. Craig
  47. The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
  48. Thanos: Thanos Returns - Jeff Lemire
  49. The Infinity Gauntlet - Jim Starlin
  50. The Mighty Thor: The Galactus Seed - Matt Fraction
  51. Doctor Strange: The Way of the Weird - Jason Aaron
  52. The Mighty Thor: The Mighty Tanarus - Matt Fraction
*unfinished

Saturday, December 29, 2018

Decade

Ten years ago today, this blog was born. 
Happy anniversary upside your mind.

Saturday, December 22, 2018

holiday read options

CFP 2018
Cotton Bowl
Clemson (Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk)
vs. 
Notre Dame (The Mirage by Matt Ruff)
***
Orange Bowl 
Oklahoma (Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard)
vs. 
Alabama (Bone in the Throat by  Anthony Bourdain)