Need to wake earlier

I need to start getting up earlier (he wrote at 2 AM). Got up around noon today, discovered that the soy hot dogs are even worse than soy bacon was (I’ve been experimenting with soy meat substitutes, not planning to eliminate red meat, just cut down on it a bit) and that I really should have gotten the portabella mushrooms instead of these white ones, did the gym thang for about 2.5 hours, and then schlepped up to Queens to hang with Lisa while she did laundry and waited for Josh to get home, which he did eventually. Then we played a couple of games of Switch, which is quick, simple, entertaining, and portable, all good things in a game.

New comics are out on Tuesday this week, instead of Wednesday. Looks like there’s a new issue of New X-Men out (#132), just a week after #131. What’s up with that? And the JLA/Planetary crossover is supposed to be out. Also new issues of Dork, Castle Waiting, Powers, and Filth. Altogether about $20 worth of comics for me.

Comics on Tuesday

Castle Waiting was good, as always, though the flashback that constituted the last story arc was long enough that I’ve forgotten what was going on in the main storyline. I should pick up the collections.

Powers is kicking ass, literally, but what’s up with Walker’s hair? The new New X-Men is clearly a 9/11 tribute story, which explains why they rushed it out a week after the previous one.

The Filth #4 suffers a bit from Grant Morrison’s tendency to cram so much weird stuff into his comics that we wind up leaping between scenes without enough connective tissue to figure out what’s going on or why.

The JLA/Planetary crossover wasn’t good enough to make up for the fact that it took time away from getting out a new issue of Planetary.

There was a guy in Union Square with his painting stuff set up. He uses acrylics, and I was checking out his equipment — he uses a subdivided plastic box as a palette. He also uses a pigment marker in conjunction with the paints; I’d never though of using one of those on canvas, but it has potential.

After the raseff get-together at Revival (I’d almost forgotten about it, and clearly I’m not the only one, because there were only four of us this month) I picked up some more razors at K-Mart, then stopped off at the Strand to use the bathroom and wound up buying the Still Life and Figure & Portrait books in the PAiNT! series, cheeep ($10 each for books that normally go for $30 a pop)!