By the time I was old enough to register who my great Aunt Frances was, she was an "old Italian woman" the way that many of my fellow "Italian-by-way-of-Brooklyn" connazionales would recognize from their own families. Short, bearing and incredible resemblance to both her sister Mimi and my grandfather John, Aunt Frances lived int he …
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"Book hoarder (28 Jan 13)" by ejbSF is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Maybe it was because I was nine years old that I found Spock telling Kirk "It's always been easier to destroy rather than to create" in Star Trek II deeply profound even though it's an incredibly obvious statement. Then again, maybe I'm just dense because the …
I didn't accidentally skip a week; I just let the monthly update be the "tracking entry" for that week. So there you go. And that's a great way to start a blog post, really. Even I'm looking at this and am incredibly intrigued at what is going to come next. Honestly, this week was another …
As always, let’s get started with the numbers … Media consumed # (remaining/total)Physical Comics Read: 0 (7/399)Digital Comics Read: 2 (496/539)Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 8 (28/40)Books Read: 3 (118/170)Movies Watched: 2 (104/143)TV Shows Completed: 1 (34/38)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 145 April, as it was this year, seemed to get away from me very fast. I was thinking about why this morning and I believe that a lot of it has …
The Uncollecting 