It's #FantasyComicsMonth and I've been saving the entire run of King Conan (later retitled Conan the King) for now. I had gotten interested in the series a few years ago when I got a copy of issue #27 in a grab bag from my LCS. Prior to that, I'd never read that many Conan comic …
The Uncollecting Update August 2024
As always, let's start with the numbers ... Physical Comics: 0 (105/105)Digital Comics: 21 (436/)464Trades/Graphic Novels: 1 (0/1)Books: 2 (99/107)Movies: 1 (177/180)TV Series: 0 (63/63)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (115/115)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 126 I was going to write this last week but Labor Day weekend got away from me (or in the very least I wound …
Personal Archaeology 29: Climbing The Tree
50 by 50 Item #4: Trace my family tree on my Italian side further back than my great-grandparents. My research binder, items from my seventh-grade research project, and a death certificate. When I was in the seventh grade, we took time out of our study of the first half of American history to research our …
The Uncollecting Update July 2024
Physical Comics: 0 (105/105)Digital Comics: 7 (457/)464Trades/Graphic Novels: 0Books: 8 (99/107)Movies: 2 (178/180)TV Series: 0 (63/63)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (115/115)Podcast Episodes Remaining: 94 The road to anxiety is paid with set intentions. As I write this, I'm one week away from going back to work after summer break. Back in May, I'd written a "summer …
The Uncollecting Update June 2024
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. …
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