Unintelligent Design

Broad beans, fried with pancetta and served with a few halved cherry tomatoes.

Very quick, very simple. Mmmm. :)

Right. One bottle of cider somewhen this weekend, Then no more alcohol 'til after Infest.

I need some sleep and sobriety to recharge my batteries, 'cos I'm starting to feel that I'm washed out and running on fumes.

Sometimes I see things and I just have to share them with you...

Mostly, they seem to involve unfortunate typos. :)
( Spotted in a Coventry restaurant... )

I should probably be saying "ow" a lot, but I'm actually feeling fine today. Elaine (WISNOLJ) has been celebrating her birthday for the last couple of days - Friday night was the Medieval Banquet at Coombe Abbey, yesterday was an all-day party and barbecue.

Much fun was had. Elusive taxis seem to have been a theme. There was mead. And Pimms. Friday had more singing. Yesterday had more meat in buns. And also some rum.

We also learned that some yaks may actually be chickens in disguise. I'm assuming that this doesn't include drivenapart, but you never can tell...

This weekend has featured silliness, purplebenji, Nottingham, steve_winolj, fun with doublet and hose, mister_jack watching cowboys... and too many conversations about suspenders. With or without cassocks.

I'm going to bed now. When I wake up, it will be Monday. And everything will be normal again, right? :)

Comics joy from scans_daily...

• Crécy - bad language and xenophobia. Not my favourite pages, as they don't have the explanation of the Normans, but...
• Ms. Marvel - in which NextWave's Aaron Stack (don't call him 'Machine Man') gets to hang around with proper superheroes. He's still quite badly behaved. :)

...there's a lot of Warren Ellis stuff out today, isn't there?

Doktor Sleepless #1, which is a slow build but definitely looking interesting. Ellis himself has compared it to Transmetropolitan, which seems fair.

Black Summer #1 is actually part 2 of the story, following on from the prologue in issue #0. John Horus is a superhero. He deals with the criminals that the law can't touch... and he's just walked into the White House and executed the President of the United States of America. Nicely done, and with a last page twist that throws things in a very interesting direction.

Last, but most definitely not least, there's Crécy. I like this one. A lot. If it turns up on scans_daily then I'm likely to be posting links, 'cos I think it's the best thing Ellis has written in a while. And it's completely different in style to any comic I've read in a very long time.

Hmm. Not sure about The Enemy just yet. Interesting, though.

And it's certainly good to see a local band that seems to be doing well...

Edit 1: Possibly I should have made it to the Godiva Festival last night, then. Ho hum.

Edit 2: ...there's something a little bit reminiscent of early Marillion (Garden Party etc) about the opening vocals on Had Enough, isn't there? Or is that just me? It all goes a bit Who later, anyway...

• Acquired an art book containing the complete set of Hokusai's views of Mount Fuji
• Made it to the butcher to shop for food before work. Go me.
• Unexpectedly won an iPod shuffle.
• Decided that I'm utterly knackered.
• Survived another day at work.

Now I just need to tidy the house, cook food, do the washing up, wash some work clothes for tomorrow... and go to sleep.

Am just a bit tired. So much for the "take it easy this week" plan.

Haven't had one of these for a while. So far I've done some reading, done a (very) little tidying, chatted to mhw on the phone, cooked myself lunch and watched some TV.

First morning in many weeks when I didn't have an alarm set. Pleasant.