No longer just a site for a cocaine-infused 80’s dance meat market, Webster Hall is now taking concert overflow from the Bowery Ballroom, and I am glad to see it. I love concerts, even if my aging body is getting less and less resilient to staying out late on school nights. Last night I went […]
Sleeper
I just finished the Wildstorm mini-series Sleeper, by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips. Holy crap, that series was good. It’s definitely the best thing to come out of the Image/Wildstorm universe, better even than the Authority (which turned into a complete crapfest when Warren Ellis and Mark Millar stopped working on it) and Astro City […]
I Respected Grandpa Dan
Grandpa Dan 1921-2005 He wasn’t really my grandfather. He wasn’t even Dani’s, since he was her step-mother’s father. I guess he was my “step-grandfather-in-law”, which is one of those honorary titles we sometimes give our elders that means only what we want it to. This is a grandparent removed from my blood by TWO marriages. […]
Grandpa
My grandfather, who I was named after, died when I was just a kid. My dad’s father, that is. My mom’s father (the Italian barber named Bruno…I swear) died long before I was born. Cancer. Like just about everyone else in my family who’s dead, except for my brother. I don’t really remember a lot […]
The Day People
Terry Brooks When I was about 13 (1986ish), my father apparently got tired of me reading only comic books. He was (and probably still is) and avid library user, my dad. He reads junk, just like everyone else, Tom Clancy and James Michener and whatnot, but he definitely reads a lot, which is more than […]