As always, let’s start with the numbers … which are all screwed up because I opened my planner this morning to start tallying things up and realized that I never kept track of things in June. More on that in a moment. But since I have tracking spreadsheets, I just went ahead and crossed off …
50 by 50
So back in the golden age of blogging--about 2003-2004, I'd say--there was a challenge going around the Internet called the "101 in 1001", which is a challenge to complete a list of 101 accomplishments in the span of 1001 days, which amounts to about 2.75 years. It's a variation on what's come to be known …
The Uncollecting Update May 2024
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 1 (31/42)Digital Comics Read: 7 (464/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (0/0)Books Read: 3 (83/101)Movies Watched: 2 (191/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (49/49)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (94/95)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 118 Every month, the eternal battle with unlistened to podcast episodes continues, especially since I keep picking up new series that already have a ton of …
Personal Archaeology 28: Personalized
As I was cleaning/organizing our office closet the other day (read: moving boxes around and not really doing much else), I found a hockey jersey that was one of my prized possessions when I was a teenager. A lot of my friends and I owned hockey jerseys and some owned what the NHL shop calls …
The Uncollecting Update April 2024
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 0 (31/41)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (0/0)Books Read: 7 (86/101)Movies Watched: 0 (194/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (49/49)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (94/95)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 89 So I did remember to log this month. And I was reading a lot. And actually watching a lot, but most of that was hockey …
Oh, you foul temptress
For the first two weeks of April, my local library holds a "Friends of the Library" sale. This is a huge flea market/ thrift store-type sale in an old store (it's actually the former library of my library branch) where they sell books, records, games, and moveis that people have donated throughout the previous years. …
The Uncollecting Update March 2024
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 0 (31/41)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 1 (0/0)Books Read: 3 (87/100)Movies Watched: 0 (194/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (49/49)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (94/95)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 83 Quick confession time: I have no idea if those numbers are accurate because at some point last month, I'd stopped logging. It wasn't on purpose …
Uncollecting Update February 2024
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 8 (31/41)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 0 (0/0)Books Read: 3 (90/100)Movies Watched: 0 (194/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (49/49)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (94/95)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 77 I guess I covered what I needed to cover in my most recent podcast episode, although I …
Uncollecting III: The Domination on Pop Culture Affidavit!
https://popcultureaffidavit.com/2024/03/04/pop-culture-affidavit-episode-151-the-uncollecting-iii-the-domination/?page_id=6979 In what's become an annual tradition on my podcast Pop Culture Affidavit, I spent some time taking a look at more TV and articles about stuff and collecting as well as gave an update as to how this now very long endeavor has been going. Check it out at the Pop Culture Affidavit site …
Continue reading Uncollecting III: The Domination on Pop Culture Affidavit!
Deadman #1-7
A little more than five years ago (wow, has this blog really been around that long?), I reviewed the masterpiece that was the Andrew Helfer/Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (praised be his name) four-issue Deadman miniseries from 1986. As I was reading, I saw a couple of references to a recently-published series, which is where that …
The Uncollecting 