Things for a Friday
May. 2nd, 2003 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonte!. A link to info on a really cool-sounding book, called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale." Really. It's a serious book examining philosophical and sociological questions as seen through the lens of the Buffyverse.
http://www.marquette.edu/phil/south/btvstoc.html
Is anyone out there familiar with any of the academics who contribute the essays?
(And a nod to Peter David's blog for news of this.)
2. I assume everyone saw that photo of Dubya in the flight suit yesterday. Anyone else think he look only slightly less ridiculous than Dukakis in the tank? Anyone else put off by the symbolism of making this speech on an aircraft carrier? Wonder if he'll make a speech about the economy from the empty offices of a defunct dotcom.
3. I'm been on a healthy eating and exercise kick this week. Fruit with lunch isntead of candy bars. Longer and more frequent walks. Even push-ups and sit-ups. (It's not quite a diet, but it's an improvement.) The goal? To get my clothes to fit better, first off. Hopefully, i can keep it up. But tonight is my first big obstacle, the shabbos meal. And tomorrow? Tomorow, there is a big kiddush in shul to follow a bris. i hope the crowd is large enough to keep me from the kugel and close to the carrotsticks.
4. Tomorrow is the second annual Free Comic Book Day. All the important comic book publishers and most of the comic books hops in the nation will participate as they did last year. To locate the comic shop near you if you live int he US, Canada, Britain or Ireland, go here:
http://csls.diamondcomics.com/
Comics being given away include DC's new Batman Adventures series (just out this week), which features all-ages stories set in the animated Batman universe (and which is written by the very talented Ty Templeton); a standalone issue of Image's Leave it to Chance by James Robinson (one of the best all-ages comics around); the first issue of Marvel's Ultimate X-Men (which is probably not suited to all ages and is not a standalone, but does features those familiar heroes on the weekend of their new film); Gemstone Comics' reprint of a rare classic Donald Duck comic.
For a complete list of free comics, go here:
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/pub_com.asp
As tomorrow is shabbos, I will miss the event. I hope my shop has spare copies of Batman Adventures and Donald Duck, though.
http://www.marquette.edu/phil/south/btvstoc.html
Is anyone out there familiar with any of the academics who contribute the essays?
(And a nod to Peter David's blog for news of this.)
2. I assume everyone saw that photo of Dubya in the flight suit yesterday. Anyone else think he look only slightly less ridiculous than Dukakis in the tank? Anyone else put off by the symbolism of making this speech on an aircraft carrier? Wonder if he'll make a speech about the economy from the empty offices of a defunct dotcom.
3. I'm been on a healthy eating and exercise kick this week. Fruit with lunch isntead of candy bars. Longer and more frequent walks. Even push-ups and sit-ups. (It's not quite a diet, but it's an improvement.) The goal? To get my clothes to fit better, first off. Hopefully, i can keep it up. But tonight is my first big obstacle, the shabbos meal. And tomorrow? Tomorow, there is a big kiddush in shul to follow a bris. i hope the crowd is large enough to keep me from the kugel and close to the carrotsticks.
4. Tomorrow is the second annual Free Comic Book Day. All the important comic book publishers and most of the comic books hops in the nation will participate as they did last year. To locate the comic shop near you if you live int he US, Canada, Britain or Ireland, go here:
http://csls.diamondcomics.com/
Comics being given away include DC's new Batman Adventures series (just out this week), which features all-ages stories set in the animated Batman universe (and which is written by the very talented Ty Templeton); a standalone issue of Image's Leave it to Chance by James Robinson (one of the best all-ages comics around); the first issue of Marvel's Ultimate X-Men (which is probably not suited to all ages and is not a standalone, but does features those familiar heroes on the weekend of their new film); Gemstone Comics' reprint of a rare classic Donald Duck comic.
For a complete list of free comics, go here:
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/pub_com.asp
As tomorrow is shabbos, I will miss the event. I hope my shop has spare copies of Batman Adventures and Donald Duck, though.
