And time-consuming. Not sure how I’m going to manage being up at the granddaughter’s this weekend. Up early and late, I guess, as usual.
Ugh.
Would that this didn’t require the theft of sleep.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1572 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Rule Of Capture, Christopher Brown (well done, sir)
Comics: Tech Jacket v2 1-3, Invincible 113
Music: Future Nostalgia, The SheepdogsNo time for love, Doctor Jones.
I have a date with my niece before she goes back to college, and we’ve barely seen her all summer. I can’t wait.
I love those kids as though they were my own.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1572 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Rule Of Capture, Christopher Brown
Comics: Invincible 108-109, Invincible Universe 10-11
Music: Furniture, Fugazi (great band, most bland album titles)One of the two scenes I worked on today, I actually teared up at a tender moment between husband and wife. I think I might finally be getting the hang of it.
If I can make myself cry, heck, maybe the same can be true for someone else.
love is patient, love is kind… and so on and so forth.
One of the few things the Bible gets right.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1623 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Father Lightning
Comics: Guarding The Globe v2 5-6, Invincible 100-101
Music: Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (what an album. Been a while since I listened to it and I forgot that literally every song on it is a fuckin' banger.)And other such fun. We did get out for lunch, which was nice, but yeah. If I’m going to be stuck in my cabin all day, maybe it shouldn’t be with the whole gang, and no time to read, and a goddamned plugged toilet minutes before I go to bed (not my fault).
I’ll be honest. I am short-fused when I don’t get that sweet, sweet alone time.
It is something I wish the people around me truly understood.
It is something the world, in its current incarnation, barely understands, with its constant notifications, constant connection, constant updates.
Never was a world more lonely than the one where no one ever shuts up.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 2604 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Invincible 68-69, Invincible Presents: Atom Eve & Rexsplode 1-2
Music: Frizzle Fry, Primus (fuck, I forgot what a killer album this is)See, that’s what I love about up here. The penchant and desire for kindness and neighbourliness is so strong that the big local scandal is people who put up fences between properties.
Now, I understand the need for fences sometimes. Our Great Pyrenees would be halfway to B.C. if we didn’t have a fence in our backyard.
But I get it. Barriers between people seen as an affront.
How could that not be a wonder?
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1038 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Dynamo 5 24-25, Invincible 66-67
Music: Friends, The Beach Boys (not today, with these fences, apparently)Today, I return to the cold depths of Lake Temagami.
I cannot wait.
It’s like anywhere we go with the water – rivers, lakes, oceans or otherwise.
It is the lungs of the earth. The heartbeat.
There is no better way to commune.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1611 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Dynamo 5 22-23, Invincible 64-65
Music: Friction, Baby, Better Than Ezra (what a dick you must have been to have someone name a band after how much better than are than you)Man, I’m gonna miss that little Munchkin face.
She’s going to miss our pups; man, is she ever attached to them.
I love it.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 2410 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Grey Seas Under, Farley Mowat
Comics: Dynamo 5 5-6, Invincible 44, Brit v2 1
Music: Frank Black, Frank Black (Black Frank is White)Grandbaby for the weekend. Apparently, she’s into watching Twister and Back To The Future, and the dinosaur scenes in Jurassic Park.
I mean, I watched Jaws at eight, so who am I to judge?
I could never judge the generations behind me for trying mushrooms or pot, or getting lousy, stinkin’ druink, let alone their choice of age-inappropriate movie.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1497 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Grey Seas Under, Farley Mowat
Comics: Noble Causes 30, Dynamo 5 4, Invincible 42-43
Music: The Fragile (Right), Nine Inch NailsNot just in the world, but in me.
I’m angry at the world’s situation.
I’m angry at myself, for wasting so much time.
I’m angry at myself, for not being a better man.
I’m angry at circumstances beyond my control.
I’m angry at being blamed for things I didn’t even do, and never would.
I’m angry at greed.
I’m angry at corruption.
I’m angry at myself for allowing depression to dictate the terms of my life.
I’m angry at other people, for constantly invading my time and space.
I’m angry, because I’m not nice enough, and because I cannot be less nice.
I’m angry at my own frustation.
I’m angry, again, at my inability to change any of this.
I’m angry at my inertia.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1818 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris
Comics: Noble Causes 8-9, Invincible 21-22
Music: For Those About To Rock, AC/DCMy wife says I’m angry. I say she’s angry. She says that’s just at her daughter, but it bleeds out into the rest of the world.
Mine does as well. I’m sick of other people.
I listen to A Wave Across The Bay and I want that for myself.
I want endless falling, never crashing, never landing, never ceasing to exist, but never engaging again.
Endless travel, free of care, free of responsibility.
When Sartre says hell is other people, he might be on to a thing.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1721 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: On Love, Charles Bukowski
Comics: WildC.A.T.S. v6 8-11
Music: Flyin' The Flannel, FIREHOSE (I don't why it's listed in all caps)