24 hours of continuous blogging! Yikes!
All right — back in the saddle again! Can’t believe it’s already 4 p.m. That makes it late afternoon, nearly evening, which means night, at the end of which I’ll…
All right — back in the saddle again!
Can’t believe it’s already 4 p.m. That makes it late afternoon, nearly evening, which means night, at the end of which I’ll be done. Eep!
Hey, isn’t it time to start noodging folks for more donations? After all, we’re so close to $250 — wouldn’t that be a nice round number to aspire to? I…
Hey, isn’t it time to start noodging folks for more donations?
After all, we’re so close to $250 — wouldn’t that be a nice round number to aspire to? I sure think so.
Now … I went cruising again, hampered by all the same stuff mentioned earlier.
Came up bupkis. Apologies. Either couldn’t get to sites I hadn’t seen before (going hit or miss through the webring), or, frankly, nothing further I could recommend. Sturgeon may have been an optimist.
More actual comics contents after I pour myself some more Coke Zero and get back to work.
(listening to: Beatles, “She Loves You” from One)
(listening to: Pointer Sisters, “Jump (For My Love)” from Billboard Top Hits – 1984)
(listening to: Monty Python, “Always Look on The Bright Side of Life” from Sings)
(listening to: Proclaimers, “Teardrops” from Sunshine on Leith)
(listening to: Seville, David, “Witch Doctor” from Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary)
(listening to: “Handel – Water Music: Allegro maestoso” from Wedding Album, The)
This is taking longer than I thought, going through my “current” stack. This will be the last installment for a while, though, assuming I get through the remainder of the…
This is taking longer than I thought, going through my “current” stack. This will be the last installment for a while, though, assuming I get through the remainder of the “first quarter of the alphabet.”
Continuing with a look on what I’ve recently read….
Continuing with a look on what I’ve recently read.
Continue reading “BT05 – Where Blogs the Balding Blogathonner?”
So it’s going on 2 p.m. I started at 7 a.m. We’re 30% of the way there! Yay! The food supplies are more than holding out — not actually eating/drinking…
So it’s going on 2 p.m. I started at 7 a.m. We’re 30% of the way there! Yay!
The food supplies are more than holding out — not actually eating/drinking that much so far. On the other hand, I’ve gotten through the “P”s in the Trade Paperback stack.
Not that I’m running out of material.
But this time … something a little different.
What comics am I reading right now?
Quiet house, save for the fan and the music. It’s interesting — some folks are a lot into the “Blogathon Community” — the forums, the “radio,” the chats, etc. Me?…
Quiet house, save for the fan and the music.
It’s interesting — some folks are a lot into the “Blogathon Community” — the forums, the “radio,” the chats, etc. Me? When I’m creating, leave me alone. I have only one chance to transcribe what the Voice in My Head is telling me to write, and if you make me respond to you, I will lose it and the Voice will be angry. The Voice being angry is a bad thing …
Jeez, it’s only 1:30 and I’m beginning to lose it … 🙂
Well, no, nobody’s been betrayed (though Margie and Katherine have gone out for ice cream), but it’s a great Lee-era title, no?…
Well, no, nobody’s been betrayed (though Margie and Katherine have gone out for ice cream), but it’s a great Lee-era title, no?
More from around the Blogathon Webring … Chemmonkey: Reviewing online games. Another one to go back and check out afterwards. (Blogging for AVERT). Imagine This: Writing about fantasy in art…
More from around the Blogathon Webring …
Dagnabbit, this is not made any easier by the number of sites that don’t have the webring code on their page like they’re supposed to. That includes a number of sites in the frelling Blogathon Hotspot page, which were all, in theory, vetted by the Blogathon Council (or whomever). Rrg.
(It’s also not helped by the fact that the Blogosphere seems to follow Sturgeon’s Law, but that’s a commentary for another time.)
(listening to: McLachlan, Sarah, “Uphill Battle” from Touch (McLachlan))
(listening to: McKennitt, Loreena, “The Lark in the Clear Air” from Elemental)
(listening to: Twain, Shania, “You’re Still the One” from Come On Over)
(listening to: Monty Python, “I Like Chinese” from Sings)
About time, after this, for me to get up and walk around, eat something, take a general break. But there’s minutes to go before I post, and I have miles…
About time, after this, for me to get up and walk around, eat something, take a general break. But there’s minutes to go before I post, and I have miles of comics to roast, and I have miles of comics to roast …
(I’ve started posting multiple “listening to” bits, as the mood seizes me. Since these posts take, oh, about half an hour to do, that makes for several tracks randomizing through iTunes …)
Almost Noon. Doing fine. Only nodding off a little bit. 🙂 Hey, Blogathon swag! Cool. Might have to get another mug….
Almost Noon. Doing fine. Only nodding off a little bit. 🙂
Hey, Blogathon swag! Cool. Might have to get another mug.
All right, back to the reviews! Katherine’s actually being pretty cool about this. Polite. Not interrupting. Bugging her mom to take her out for ice cream. She rocks, too….
All right, back to the reviews!
Katherine’s actually being pretty cool about this. Polite. Not interrupting. Bugging her mom to take her out for ice cream. She rocks, too.
My Blogathon workspace and me.this post enabled by airblogging.com….
Checking out some of the other Blogathon sites out there (via the Blogathon Ring control in the sidebar), a few that catch my eye: On My Own, I’ll Dream My…
Checking out some of the other Blogathon sites out there (via the Blogathon Ring control in the sidebar), a few that catch my eye:
Oh, and, Blogathon guys? Some folks have been less than diligent in putting the Blogathon Ring banner/code on their page (either at the top or at all). Makes browsing this stuff a bit more difficult. Is anyone checking this stuff out?
It seems to me that the most interesting blogs, at least for the purposes of the Blogathon, are the ones with a theme. It’s hard to just random-associate and natter on about onesself for 24 hours (heck, it seems challenging for some people for just a few hours). Too late for some folks by now, but I’d file it away as general advice for the future.
Of course, it also seems to me that the most interesting blogs have a relatively attractive page design. I’ll let you humor me that I’m one of them.
The Blogathon Hotspot page has some interesting-looking blogs, too. Including Yours Truly. Access to it seems to be a bit screwed up — I had to [OK] a password request for “webmail” twenty times to get in — but I’ll be going back here later.
(listening to: McLachlan, Sarah, “Building a Mystery” from Lilith Fair)
I love comics. Really. In case there were any questions in your mind….
I love comics. Really. In case there were any questions in your mind.
Some posts of note from 2003’s Blogathon effort: Back in 2003, the CBLDF actually mentioned the Blogathon and me (and Neil Gaiman echoed the mention). This year, they’re in the…
Some posts of note from 2003’s Blogathon effort:
Consider this my first “kinda slackin’ off there, Dave, aren’tcha?” post.
(listening to: McKennitt, Loreena, “Dickens’ Dublin (The Palace)” from Parallel Dreams)
Making slow progress — but discovering that some of the books I pulled for review I’d already done. Yay, I guess. 🙂 Plowing onwards. I’m going to have to take…
Making slow progress — but discovering that some of the books I pulled for review I’d already done. Yay, I guess. 🙂
Plowing onwards. I’m going to have to take a “break” post pretty soon, though.
Going strong so far (an hour and a half in), but I can see that I’ll need to do something to speed things up, or be more efficient, or something….
Going strong so far (an hour and a half in), but I can see that I’ll need to do something to speed things up, or be more efficient, or something. This is just taking too long to get through each book.
Hmmmm …
(Five extra Blogathon points to anyone who knows where that title came from …) One challenge to this Blogathon thing is that … well, really, 30 minutes isn’t very long…
(Five extra Blogathon points to anyone who knows where that title came from …)
One challenge to this Blogathon thing is that … well, really, 30 minutes isn’t very long to do this sort of thing. Three reviews last time? Yikes! I could do this for 48 hours!
Well, no.
Katherine just wandered downstairs. I have her watching Krypto – The Superdog. Heh. This is a great generation to grow up for lovers of comics and comics themes when it…
Katherine just wandered downstairs. I have her watching Krypto – The Superdog. Heh. This is a great generation to grow up for lovers of comics and comics themes when it comes to cartoons. More on that some other time.
Let’s get to the reviews!
Continue reading “BT05 – And there shall come … a beginning!”
First off, I want to thank Margie for her support in this, on a bunch of different levels. Things have been increasingly stressful at her office, between organizational conflicts and…
First off, I want to thank Margie for her support in this, on a bunch of different levels. Things have been increasingly stressful at her office, between organizational conflicts and a Huge, Massive, Critically Important Project that she’s been thrown into, and it would have been very easy for her to say, “Dave, I can’t afford to watch after Katherine all day (and probably most of Sunday) while you do this silly thing.”
Instead, she just said, “Cool,” made sure I had snacks and stuff available, and urged me (repeatedly) to get to sleep early last night.
She’s swell.
