After leaving the jet lag study I did for money, not science, I stumbled upon a signing of Rafael Grampá's Mesmo Delivery (see art above) at Desert Island (an indie comic store in Liz's neighborhood). Then, I headed over to a house show where The Vivian Girls were playing with a new cometbus/jawbreaker band. I got to see the Vivian Girls, but was five minutes too late for the other band.
Ever get the feeling you are always five minutes too late? yeah.
Yesterday, Corey and I played chess to another draw (4 in a row now) at a Mexican diner. I spent the afternoon writing my new book review for MRR (you can see the last one in November's issue #306). After Liz got out of her master depositions course, we went to Upright Citizens Brigade for 'let's have a ball', which was no 'i eat pandas/we classy', but I think i eat pandas ruined improv for me because I find myself wanting a piano to appear and the performers to burst into song. Is that wrong? Ended up at Blue Stockings for another book signing/discussion for the new book 'Labor Law for the Rank and Filer'.
I was just going to go back to DC and sit at my house, since my jet lag study flight was moved back, but I'm glad I got to stay.
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I was surprised to see an unreferenced clip on CW in the lab I am in, accrediting a 'bombing' of an army recruitment station in New York to French Anarchists. From the video it appears that perhaps they meant a smoke bombing?
My interest picked, I did a search to find out more. Evidently, the New York Post (a tabloid?) cites them as "allegedly carrying anarchist texts and photos of the recruitment center. They also had been spotted at anarchist meetings in New York." While the London Telegraph, tells us that, "Although they had left the US before the bomb attack, they had allegedly been spotted shortly before at American anarchist meetings in New York." A little different from the Post and CW's stories that made it sound like the French people were there for the act itself.
While I'm not surprised, I think it is a weird story: Someone carried books and talked to people at a meeting of some sort. They were later arrested, though it is unclear if it was for the talking or carrying books.
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I got to see Mike Mignola talk about the future of Hellboy and Lynda Barry speak on her new book 'What it is' (excerpt above) at Wordstock in Portland last weekend. Shannon Wheeler was there tabling too. It was nice to stumble in on all that.
My sister and I also briefly discussed real-life superheroes over the weekend. Upon returning to DC, I had a similar conversation with my roommate who told me about Angle Grinder Man, who cuts car-clamps off of booted cars in London. That is a nice superpower.
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