Category: Books, Comics, Music
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Guilty Treasures
A slow starting day with gathering clouds- perfect! I did finish up some MoPrint biz earlier this week, and went to studio twice, but I didn’t produce a lot of finished work, mostly thinking and prepping for a final push at the SAM. Here’s another weekend book post: Next to the bed, I have an…
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Tales of Futures Past
From February’s snow days to nights in March spent on the couch after working my temporary job, I’ve had a bit of reading time. As I’ve mentioned, I read a lot of different stuff, but lately, my obsession has been comics. Not only for escapist reasons. There is a lot that’s interesting about comics right…
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Lipstick Librarians on Top, Down There at the Bottom
I’m busy tying up loose ends as I return to a normal routine. So this post is a grab bag of abstract musings from both my winter couch diversions, and my spring projects. I am on the committee for MoPrint 2016, a city-wide printmaking festival which is entering its second scheduled biennial and had its first meeting…
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Can I Take My Books to Heaven?
I’ve spent the last few weeks either working long hours at my temp job at DU, or on the couch reading under a blanket in the frigid, dark days. I got a lot of reading done, so I’m posting more mini-reviews today. Now it’s getting noticeably brighter, the job is done, and I’m getting back into a…
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Of Hacks and Boobs
I promised a quick finish to my last books and pop culture post with an installment about current comics. I also promised shorter posts. One out of two ain’t bad. Comics: There has been very little need to marginalize comics over the years; they’ve done a great job of doing that for themselves. This has…
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Read Flag!
It’s Banned Books Week. Though it’s been a busy Summer, I’ve gotten quite a bit of reading in. Evenings and mornings have mostly been spent catching up on my reading on the back porch, thankfully relatively cool this summer. Here is what I’ve been reading. Rather than compile a comprehensive entry, which I’ve identified as a reason…
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Cultured Pop
Shorter, darker days. There’s actually time for reading, and the cat settles in for a lap snooze as I actually watch entire movies on DVD. I get my exercise on trips to the Library, and I’m combing through the PBS listings. I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, which is as thought provoking as you’d expect, and another book,…
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Hey Kids! Comics!
Blustery and frigid winter has made February its home here. We got a mild November and December, January could not make up its mind, but the last 2 weeks have been definitive, lock down winter. We even have snow, of which the Squish approves. I feel cheated when it’s frigid and brown. I love the…
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All in Color for a Crime
My last post was a sort of improvisation on the subject of comics and the culture wars. Since I’m on the subject, here’s a tip for some very interesting reading: a good book has hit what I like to think of as the book lover’s sweet spot- available in remainder as a HC, but newly…
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Weekend Squish: Book Review
It’s Pynchon month in Squishytown! We started the festivities off by bussing down August 4 to Tattered Cover for his latest, INHERENT VICE. Things really ramped up with a 94-word run-on tribute sentence wedged into the previous Squishtoid post – still far short of the 400+ monster that opens MASON AND DIXON, but I guess…
