Words & Pictures No. 2 - Comic Book Inflation

This is the first comic book that I remember owning (there may have been others before it, but it's the first I remember). G.I. Joe #14 has a cover date of August 1983. In the 25 years since (and the idea that I've been reading these things for 25 years is kind of mind-blowing to me) comic prices, like the prices for most things have gone up. Notice the price in the corner of $0.60 for this issue. The final issue of Secret Invasion, which came out last week, had a cover price of $3.99. That's quite an increase and has been a topic of conversation on various comics-related sites this week. The majority of the books from the big two publishers are still $2.99, but the move to $3.99 is coming and most small-press books already cost more than that.

I'll save the commentary, others have more than covered that, I just found it interesting to note how this once cheap and disposable form of entertainment is no longer either one.

Haiku of the Week: Yuck

Slimy and ugly;
What is it even made from?
I cannot eat this.

December Frappr Update

I seem to get a couple more pins in my map whenever I put it up, so here it is again. I'm up to 53, though there are a lot of unknown locations.

Return of 200 Word Writing Project Delayed

I know, I know, I said I'd try to start back up today, but I find that I need a little more time to think about where I want to go with the story. To that end, I'm going to wait to start back up until after the new year.

Words & Pictures No. 1 - What's it all about

Today's picture is one of me. That's because today's entry is going to be me explaining my intentions with my new Tuesday feature. The idea goes back a few years ago with an idea I had for an ongoing writing project. I would take a picture a day and write something about that picture (I was inspired by reading an interview with Christopher Nolan talking about his then new movie, Momento). Maybe it would be a story or a poem or an essay or even a short quip, something. As with most of my overly ambitious projects, I abandoned it fairly quickly. Still, I like the idea, so I intend to try to revive it here. Every Tuesday I'll post a picture along with some bit of writing that it has inspired from me. Hopefully, as with the haiku project, once a week will prove an easier timetable to sustain than once a day.

Oh, and I imagine this is the last time you'll see me put a picture of myself up.

>Looks at picture and shudders<

Haiku of the Week: Beginning

Begin with step one.
It is an obvious start;
Sometimes skipped in haste.

The Plan

Between the holidays, business, laziness, and a lack of inspiration, I've been neglecting my blog of late. I'm back now, and I've decided to create more of a structure for this thing. Partly as an excersise to see if I can operate under a set structure and set of deadlines, and partly because structure can help to bring my ideas of what to write into focus. Here's the new weekly schedule I'm going to try (TBD means To Be Determined, which means that I've got no idea what I want to do on that day yet.):

Sunday - TBD (Though I'm thinking I might use it to talk about interesting things coming up in the week)

Monday - Haiku of the Week - My Haiku of the Day blog becomes more inaccurately named by the day, so I think I'll just fold it into the main blog and cut back to once a week, a schedule I'll probably be better able to maintain.

Tuesday - Words and Pictures - I'll explain more about this idea on Tuesday.

Wednesday - TBD (I acutally have an idea for this, but it's a bit more time consuming, so I probably won't start before the new year).

Thursday - TBD

Friday - My 200 Word writing project which I will hopefully be able to start back this Friday.

Saturday - TBD

This plan probably seems a little gradiose for a simple blog without a whole lot of traffic, but really I'm much more interested in using this as an intellectual and creative excersise than as an online diary. To that end, I do welcome feedback. If there's something you want to see more of, let me know. If there's something you want to see less of, let me know that, too.