The story so far...We've had some exciting adventures the last couple days. Yesterday we ventured down a ravine on the north side of town, finding all sorts of lovely glades and nooks. All sorts of debris had washed down along the sides of the little creek - plenty of bricks, pipes, and bits of old buildings. We even found a muddy backpack, with somebody's pulped-up books and personal knick-knacks. At one point, there was a very short drain tunnel big enough to fit us, so we crawled through and popped up in the middle of a field behind a school. At the end of the ravine there were a couple of railroad bridges, with some pretty excellent graffiti underneath. Some artiste-type had even executed a mosaic out of bits of broken mirror and spraypainted plywood. For dinner that night I made a sort of black bean stew, cornbread, and we tried frying up some plantain slices.
Today we took a long walk and enjoyed the hell out of some spring flowers and ended up at a Mexican restaurant called "La Estrella," where we had a pretty excellent "7 Mares" soup and a whole grilled fish.
Tomorrow's bottling day for the porter! Did I say the Kolsch came out excellent? Cause it did. I don't know how "authentic" these beers are turning out, but they are very tasty to drink.
Labels: athens, beer, dinner, eleanor, set to sea
The story so far...Eleanor spent the last couple days making herself a new drawing desk out of two-by-fours and such. She's been working in an armchair for the last couple months. I helped! I sawed at least five or six boards. We've both been getting excited by the possibilities of
pegboard, which you can get really cheap at any hardware-type store.
Eleanor's also been getting a lot of
internet press recently. Hmm. Perhaps she must be stopped?
I've got a porter-type beer bubbling away in the bucket in the closet. I'm taking a wild stab in the dark at trying to somewhat recreate the
Captain's Porter from Moon River in Savannah. Hopefully it will be ready for tasting in time for
Fluke!
Labels: beer, eleanor, fluke, set to sea
The story so far...Those guys can't stay out of trouble!
Our friend Devlin (manager of the world-famous Bizarro Wuxtry) probably drew better as a kid than you do right now, and
he can prove it.
We've been listening to the audiobook version of John Hodgman's "The Areas of My Expertise." They were giving it away for free on iTunes a few months back - the first and only time I've used the iTunes store! - but it's taken us till now to actually get to it. Next we've got to actually get through Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival," which was a disappointing download - we thought it would be read by Chomsky himself, but instead the reader sounds like a guy in a college debating society.
Sometime last week, the lease on the Failure website expired. I knew the renewal date was coming up soon, but it caught me by surprise - and now it's already in the hands of the domain-squatters. Ha, I'd like to see them try and find another party interested in actively associating comic books and the concept of failure. Ah well, It was bound to happen sooner or later - it's been pretty much inactive for a year or two. But I would have liked to archive a bunch of stuff before it went down.
Pour one out for failurecomics dot com, 2001-2007.
Labels: bizarro wuxtry, failure, set to sea
