Movie, movie

bugsybanana came over from Games Club last night. Aside from Puerto Rico (with expansion buildings, which I don’t like since they’re unbalanced) I played just one game, Web of Power, a neat, simple placement-based boardgame that I’d like to play again now that I understand the advisors scoring.

Today Bugsy and I went out to see some movies. We found The Triplets of Belleville at the BAM Cinema in Brooklyn, and it was delightful and lively. Then we caught a midnight showing of Donnie Darko at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater. Also really good, but a bit confusing. ( here’s my take on what’s going on, which contains major spoilers. )

In between we stopped off at Bugsy’s apartment and I found the connector that’ll let me hook up my old Palm IIIx cradle to a USB port (once I’ve downloaded the driver), and we ate at Two Boots. I had more of the broccoli than I ought to on Atkins Induction, but it was the best damn broccoli I’d ever had, made with butter and garlic.

Now sleep.

The new weapon

After bugsybanana left, I spent two or three hours at ground, reading A Ring of Swords and occasionally sketching. I’m trying out that new brush pen, and it really rocks. Nice flow, controllable, flexible. And the ink is remarkably well-behaved, not seeping through even the mere 60-lb paper in my sketchpad.




( This second sketch )

reminds me a bit of Jeff Nicholson’s work in Through the Habitrails (one of the most frightening comics ever, a brilliant Kafkaesque nightmare story about having a day job), because I didn’t bother with her mouth. (If you decide to order it from Colonia Press, scroll down the page and go for the first edition. Not only is it cheaper, but it lacks the epilog which actually sort of ruins the ending and was just a set-up for a sequel series that never materialized.)