Get Your Motor Running
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
Or whatever comes your way
Watchman, Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsI finished this one a couple of weeks ago. Everybody I talked to that had read it said it was best to read a chapter then sit it down and wait a while, then read the next. Well I don’t do that. I didn’t finish it in one sitting, but it was done by the end of the weekend. I suspect that my friends were correct, because I still don’t quite what to make of it. I went through a couple of years in my preteens being a pretty heavy comic book reader. About the age of twelve or thirteen, it was about two issues into Crisis on Infinite Earths, I dropped all of my subscriptions to save up for a floppy drive for my TRS-80, man does that sound geeky, never did get that floppy drive. That was over twenty years ago so I’m far from a comic book expert. It’s possible I read books back then that were this rich, and just I wasn’t old enough to appreciate them, but this book blew me away. This book had a lot of hype to live up to and it does, there’s no doubt in my mind that this is a great book, but I can’t make up my mind whether I like it or not. The ending. I never would imagined an ending could be so climatic and anti climatic at the same time. This is the most frustrating ending I have ever encountered. That doesn’t make it a bad ending or ruin the book necessarily, but it does leave me asking “what the hell was this all about?” The buzz is that the movie will have a substantially different ending. I can certainly understand why. I think I’m going to have read it again.
http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Alan-Moore/dp/0930289234 The Glorious Cause, Jeff ShaaraI borrowed this book from my parents several months ago. I don’t know what made me pick it up just now. I love historical fiction but I had never really got into the American Revolutionary War period. This book is actually the second of two books is a novelization of the American Revolutionary War centered on Washington and his Generals, Cornwallis, and Franklin. The subject matter is fascinating, but the book reads a little dry for a novelization. http://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Cause-Jeff-Shaara/dp/0345427580
No More TwitteringSorry about the short little posts. I was trying out a plugin that would automatically cross post my twitters, http://twitter.com/clovischitwood , with http://clovischitwood.com. That wasn’t the best idea. Fighters Over The BeachHere’s some video of navy fighters out of Pensecola flying a race track pattern over the water near the beach between Gulf Shores and Fort Myers in Alabama. One of the cool things about Gulf Shores is the possiblity of seeing stuff like this. If your ever in the area you have to check out the Naval Aviatin Museum in Pensecola. It is amazing.
Gulf Shores SunsetHere’s video of the sun going down over the Gulf of Mexico. On the horizon you can see some oil or natural gas, I’m not sure which, platforms, and channel markers leading into Mobile Bay. This was taken the week of Thanksgiving.
Working from home is still wor…Working from home is still work – another little factoid of which I’d just as soon be ignorant Scored at office Christmas par…Scored at office Christmas party, got me one big ass bottle of gin, and one little bottle of tonic and a lime, they know me well |