It started with a class project. The scrapbooks as they originally existed. There were five albums total, all with essays and/or captions. Truthfully, it started with a trip to Europe in the summer of 1994--between my junior and senior years of high school--because if not for that trip, I wouldn't have had any pictures to …
Month: July 2023
Surviving the Game
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Carroll is one of those short stories that for at least a couple of generations in high school English. The premise, in case you're not familiar with it, is that a big game hunter named Rainsford falls off of a yacht and washes up on the private island of …
Lucky Them
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Lucky_Them.jpg Ten years ago, Matthew Smith, one of the more influential voices of his generation, played his final show and disappeared. Nobody has been able to find him, although plenty of people on the Internet and other places swear they've seen him or heard him perform. Especially affected was his then-girlfriend, Ellie Klug . She's …
Uncollecting Update June 2023
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 35 (101/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 3 (6/14)Books Read: 6 (110/125)Movies Watched: 7 (171/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (56/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (100/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 198 I will say that summer break plus a vacation means that you wind up reading a lot of comics and watching a good amount …
A Week Sick is a Week Uncollected
I tested positive for COVID on Sunday. It wasn't a surprise because everyone else in the house had it, and I was fortunate enough to just wind up with a really bad cold for most of the week. As I type this, I'm pretty much better but taking it easy for one more day just …
The Uncollecting 
