All work and no play makes Kevin a dull boy. But I’ve been managing to get in a little play now and again.
- I read Anansi Boys, the new novel by Neil Gaiman. A light book, the kind of thing sometimes described uncharitably as “summer reading,” but better than you might think. Of Gaiman’s novels to date this is easily his best.
- The first season of Lost came out on DVD, so I’ve been working my way through that. Not having reliable access to television keeps me from shows I might like, until they come out on disc. This one is worth the wait. Now I just have to hope they don’t screw it up in season two, and that I can avoid as many spoilers as possible for the next year while I wait for it to come out on DVD.
- I’ve also been watching the original Twilight Zone in the new “definitive edition” sets. It’s amazing how many of those first season episodes have become a part of our cultural language.
- Dragged myself into the theater to see Serenity, the film follow-up to the prematurely cancelled TV series Firefly. I’ve been waiting for this for literally months, ever since Xkot convinced me to buy the DVD set. Serenity/Firefly is one of the best science fiction series ever developed for television, and a damned fine bit of writing, whatever the genre. The film holds up to that standard, and I highly recommend you give it a shot.
- I’ve also been banging away on the new version of Hidden City. We’re getting closer now; I just need to figure out how to incorporate this journal/web log into the new structure.
- Today The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is released. Well, there goes another big chunk of my paycheck, but I’ve been waiting for this a long time.
- On Tuesday night I am going to do something I haven’t done in decades: start school. Well, just one class, and a continuing education class at that. Oh, and it’s a writing class, too. Creative Non-Fiction, to be precise. Yeah, I’m not exactly jumping back into rocket science, am I?
- And in a final bit of good news, it looks as though Dave McKean’s Mirrormask is actually going to come to Miami. Will wonders never cease?
And for now, that’s the news of the world.
