I started this blog ten years ago. I never intended it to go past the initial King's Highway project, but it was easy enough to switch from there to the Captain's Log and then all points beyond.
I've revisited both Stephen King (initial favorites aforelinked, revised in 2016, and 2019 favorites here) unless you're looking for the movies, ranked here and here, or the mini-series, ranked here. Phwew.) and Star Trek (ongoing) many times since 2011. This year will be the last. All things must end, yadda yadda, I'll put together a more comprehensive "closing statement" when the time comes. I'm finishing up the projects in queue which will take me through the end of the year.
Why we're here today with me beaming these words through the computer screen and into your head: on my desktop is a folder entitled Comic Book Projects I'll Likely Never Do. An aptly named folder! Here are the current contents:
Hope you can read that. The "1967..." ones are for Spider-Man. These were meant to be Scenic Route selections but just never got there. Anything there anyone's got an especial interest in seeing? If so, let me know, and I'll add it to the queue. It's never a big deal to flip through comics and screencap illustrations I like. (If anything, I get carried away. I've never been able to tell if the comics posts I did for the blog are good or painful examples of bloat and overkill. Posterity - or the more ephemeral kind that exists at the behest of free blog housing like blogger, I guess - will decide on that one.) Anyway, want more bloat/ overkill? Point to the folder of choice, and I'll see what I can do.
The current queue looks like this:
- finish Tour of Duty (my favorites from seasons two and three)
- An Enterprise post (I was going to give each season the ranked treatment, but that seems like a lot of time and effort. It'd be worth if it I wasn't on a timetable - both the completist and the symmetrist within me would prefer to do it that way. But truthfully I just don't have that much to say about it all, and a catch-all post with my twenty favorites will do fine.)
- A few more book reviews
- One, possibly two "Stuff I Watched Recently" posts.
- One last From Novel to Film post, Starship Troopers. I didn't get to four or five of the ones listed in there. As with Enterprise, I'd like to, but looks like it won't happen. And Starship Troopers isn't even on there! I remind myself of the band New Order sometimes. They routinely each chose a different color for anything involving the album cover, and when their manager would be called for a tiebreaker, he'd choose a different color altogether. That's how I roll sometimes. Any enterprising readers out there who want to tackle any of the ones I didn't get to, send me a link, I'd love to check out your work. You see Lord of the Flies in there; that's one I regret not giving the FNTF treatment. But there's an excellent breakdown of it over here, if you're looking for one.
- the last two bits of the "These Were the Voyages" series (DC's Trek, v1)
- probably a "look back at some favorites" sort of post, probably a "so long and thanks for all the fish" sort of post.
and
- Billy Summers. Only fitting the blog should end with one last King. (For me, not - heaven forbid - for him.)
As I write these words, it is 6:17 in the ante meridiem and the mercury is climbing again in the thermometer. Been so damn hot lately. We have ACs only in the bedrooms, so my office where I type these words has been brutal. What's weird is - and it's really not weird, for Chicago; this is just how they do things up here - the temp recorded throughout the day is never the one they tell you at night or the day after. So we've had several days of 114 degree "heat index" weather even if the temp. is only ever recorded as anywhere between 84 degrees and 91 but then suddenly - and randomly - I'll see graphs of Illinois swathed in red/ orange with "ONE HUNDRED TEN DEGREES IN CHICAGO!" written over it. Then you go to any Chicago weather site and you see completely different temps./ graphics The contempt for precision, coordination, sense, competence, and so much more that everyone involved in Chicago operations so diligently pursues never stops impressing me.
Meanwhile, it feels like whatever-temp-you-imagine-paintings-melt at and sounds like this.
Anyway, my point is: who knows how hot it's been, what the actual humidity counter has been - I have a Casio that is supposed to measure these things but, I've discovered, it simply connects to whatever agency is recording these things and relays me the info, it is not sensitive to actual changes in temp. or humidity - but sitting at my computer is a pain in the ass. I have to momentarily switch over to the work computer, where I'll be entering DIVs and handling other aspects of dental network management all day. Fingers crossed for a break in this damn weather sooner or later.
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| Urban Heat Wave by Ally White. |
