Mysterious World of Mysteries...

...or, as Toys said today (not that the above isn't a quote from him too, if you haven't already guessed) Land of 1,000 Gophers!!

Seriously. Golden Gate Park today was animal and bird central. Here's what we saw on our walk yesterday through the Stow Lake area: ( Gophers, Grebes, Ducklings, and More - no pictures, unfortunately )

I've been out of the loop for the last several days - between the San Francisco International Film Festival being in town, and my running around in connection with that (I may get around to writing about some of the films I've seen, when the tiredness wears off), shopping for my dad's birthday, and keeping Toys company on selected late nights during the last big push toward final projects, it's been hectic to say the least. I haven't yet summoned up the energy to answer all the comments on my last post yet, but I promise, I will.

Newcomers to this journal should be advised that I sometimes rant about comics. It's a whole thing.

Comics As Kabuki Theater

Did I mention just in the last post that there are times I rant about comics? Well, here you go.

Actually, this is more a case I found somebody else to do it for me - there are times when the guy who writes Dave's Long Box is not only funny, but really gets it spot-on in a voice-of-my-generation-of-old-fogey-fans kind of way. Such as this review of a classic Big '80s comic X-Men #202, where the X-Men meet up with the Beyonder in the Secret Wars II crossover. ( Don't Laugh, Just Read )