Seems to be a lot to think about these days.
Hopefully, that whole manifestation thing isn’t legit.
Target: 1400 words
Written: 764 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Comics: Youngblood v4 4-7
Music: Wheels, Foo Fightersremember, remembrance
I’ll be honest. I grew up on tales of World War II. My grandfather was in the army, although he didn’t talk about it a ton.
He did tell me a story I turned into a book for a project in public school; years later, I’d find it and discover he’d related the Great Escape. He was proud of his deployment though; I believe he was a medic. He still had his uniform folded and pressed in the attic, along with a number of commendations, letters from my grandmother and pictures of him in gear.
I should probably look into that.
Anyway, thanks, Grandad, for either punching Nazis or healing the ones that did, whichever it was.
I’m sorry we’ve let them come back into power. I am ashamed for us.
We will do better, I promise.
At least, I will. I can’t make any promises for these other assholes.
Target: 1400 words
Written: 2203 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Comics: Youngblood Imperial 1, Youngblood v4 1-3
Music: Wheatus, Wheatus (fuck, earworm - it's going to get me days to get rid of Teenage Dirtbag)the things that come up
You know, it’s really tough to write a scene-ending line about the possibility of a prostate massage.
Technically, an objection to it, a total horrifying of the moral senses.
(Except, you know, get your prostate checked. That shit’s important, fellas, both in a medical sense, and a what’s good for the goose sense.)
Polyps is no joke, kids.
Target: 1400 words
Written: 1483 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (prostates, you say?)
Comics: Brigade v3 1, Youngblood Bloodsport 1, Youngblood Genesis 1-2
Music: Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?, Local H (quite possible the most underrated one hit wonder ever)rosemary’s baby ii
You ever think Donald sees that baby and thinks, man, I wish I could have that kid’s life?
Or do you think he’s just so worried about if Daddy loves him that he’s just jealous Satan actually thinks his son is cool?
Target: 1400 words
Written: 906 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Comics: Youngblood v3 1-2, Youngblood GT Interactive Special 1, Awesome Adventures 1
Music: What Hits!, Red Hot Chili Peppers!rosemary’s baby
You know, I’ve never actually seen that.
Was the baby really the spawn of Satan?
And was its name Donald?
Target: 1400 words
Written: 440 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Quiet: The Power Of Introverts, Susan Cain (well, that took way too long)
Comics: Judgment Day 3, Judgment Day: Aftermath 1, Youngblood Super Special 1, Awesome Holiday Special 1
Music: What Evil Lurks, The Prodigya particularly difficult scene
I don’t like guns. They’re everywhere in movies, television and books, but they have never been a part of my life.
I’ve never fired one. Never even held one.
I haven’t been around one when it went off.
So, it’s hard for me to write about what the effects of such a thing are, how one reacts and all that, when one actually does. Unfortunately, it’s a crucial addition to this book. A late addition, but to really capture the zeitgeist of what it means to be a MAGA archetype, well, you need guns.
Second Amendment bollocks, really.
How fucking dumb are you people? You know if you get rid of the guns, then no one can get shot, right?
Of course, unless you’re an asshole who wants to shoot somebody, which I believe you all are, whether you admit it outwardly or not.
Fuckin’ stupid, man.
Target: 1400 words
Written: 2713 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Quiet: The Power Of Introverts, Susan Cain
Comics: Spider-Man/Badrock 2, Chapel v3 1, Judgment Day: Alpha 1, Judgment Day: Omega 1
Music: What Else Could You Want?, Bullet Treatment (well, if that don't beat all)big changes, slipped hood
At least, that’s what this scene is screaming at me.
Why is everyone so calm, including the protagonist?
There are bad things happening, terrifying, awful, annoying, dangerous things.
You have my permission to freak out.
I am.
(Also, yay to Democrat gains in the elections; now, we pray there are enough of us to overcome the rigging, or that he doesn’t suspend elections altogether.)
Target: 1400 words
Written: 1340 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Quiet: The Power Of Introverts, Susan Cain (it's me!)
Comics: Shattered Image 3-4, Youngblood v2 14, Spider-Man/Badrock 1
Music: Western Stars, Bruce Springsteenremember
Now, more than ever.
Remember.
When the masks come off, it will be the face of the hopeful that shine, and the face of the condemned that bleed with fear.
Remember.
Target: 1400 words
Written: 1623 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Quiet: The Power Of Introverts, Susan Cain
Comics: Shattered Image 1-2, X-Force/Youngblood 1, Extremely Youngblood 1
Music: A Western Harvest Field By Moonlight, Beckheeey baaby
It’s the Fourth of Novem… wait.
Is that a day? Is that a thing?
Maybe it ought to be.
Target: 1400 words
Written: 1329 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Quiet: The Power Of Introverts, Susan Cain
Comics: Badrock/Wolverine 1, Youngblood v2 9-10, Youngblood/X-Force 1
Music: West Coast Vs. Wessex, NOFX/Frank Turner (oh my god, Turner turning Fat Mike into a lyricist with his beautiful arrangements? I love me some NOFX, but whoever would have thought? Too bad the NOFX covers of his songs were... less good. The second half of this album is brilliant.)slammed into first
Hit the ground running this morning. You ever get the feeling, you’re running on the edge of a bridge as it collapses behind you, like in some twisted video game or action movie?
As Nazis blow things up down south and Carney proves to be the globalist traitor I worried he might be (still better than Poilievre), I can’t help but wonder just how close to the precipice we are.
If we slow down, if we stop running… are we dooming ourselves to abyss?
Or is time to turn and fight?
Target: 1400 words
Written: 1453 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Quiet: The Power Of Introverts, Susan Cain
Comics: Team Youngblood 22, Youngblood v2 8, Prophet & Chapel 1-2
Music: Werewolves And Lollipos, Patton Oswalt