This is a fairly straight Batman comic. The art is at time great, the plot is mostly simplistic, and the Batman is not really developed. Robin does see Fear in him–fear that Hush will harm his loved ones.
I do not recommend this.
Tag: Book
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Diedrichs Guerrila Library Project
Playboy’s Book of Limericks by Clifford M. Crist
The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman
Hamlet and Oedipus by Ernest Jones
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Poetical Works of Owen Meredith by Owen Meredith
Mc Teague by Frank Norris
The Patch Boys by Jay Parini -
James Frey – A Million Little Pieces
I just started reading this last night & I cannot put it down – it is a really awesome book. I am not sure if I missed the Oprah coverage of it, but I am totally interested in the O take on this.
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"Comments are more interesting then the book…"
Peggy picked up Hawthorne’s Blithdale Romace from the Deidrich’s Free Library. She asked me if the notes in the book were mine. I do not know, but I said yes – because in all probability they are. She then said that the comments were more intersting then the book.
To me that is somehow an insult. She is trying to get inside my head, to figure me out, she is trying to take some of my wisdom away – or something. It is a very basic fear – it comes up with out me even thinking about it.
I have a closeness to literature – I mean that I take it very very seriously – I really care about it. When someone has access to my deepest thoughts about something that I care about, I fear that they are going to take something from me. Even if it is something that I am giving away. Even if it is something that should bring my joy.
Peggy was not being judgemental. She was happy and having fun. I need to remember that the other persons perceptions are most likely more correct then mine.
Also, I wrote those comments for someone else – some ideal rereader. I did not write them for me because I never go back over anything that I read. Maybe I should start – maybe I should start paying more attention to the literature in my life and what it may mean the second time around.
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Superman Cartoon
Jack got the new Superman series at the library this week. I have never seen it, but maybe tonight we can watch it. I am not sure if we have other plans for this evening, and havnig a plan is very important to me – I feel like we have been inside a lot this week, what with the Angels games, my moms visit, and me staying up all night on Wednesday.
The headset commitment is getting harder – maybe Thursday needs to become moving night (which is why I write about movies on Friday – Doh!).
I guess that the real key would be to stay awake during the movies. I used to make fun of Lisa for falling asleep, and now I am the one that cannot make it through a movie.
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Daily Qur’an Reading
I am still reading about 10 lines from the Qur’an basically daily. I think I originally came to this to find the thread of extremism that scares me so much in today’s Muslim. But I also wanted to find the thread of love that Sahar finds in this faith. I think what I have actually found is something much more serious inside of me – some facets of my inability to take things seriously that is founded I my ego’s belief that I am smarter then everyone – hubris of the mind. a very hard thing to let go.
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth – Chris Ware
Absolutely amazing. This depressed me for three complete days. The loneliness, isolation, complete inability to communicate, the historical sweep, interconnectedness – everything thing about this is completely amazing. I do not know how Ware is able to do this – and one amazing aspect of his work is the post-modern self confidence of everything that he does – I mean he knows exactly what he is doing, he tells you he is going to do it, and then when he does it he has some how tricked you becuase the really cool part was not what he was talking about at all.
Like when Jimmy gets beaten by the school bullies for hitting a girl – his father cannot protect him forever, obviously. Really obviously. just amazing.
This is so good that I will read everything Ware puts out forever.
Of course, I said this about Wallace & I still have not gotten to the Oblivion book – and that is something else. I am really down on myself right now for my complete inability to finish anything. I have Varieties of Religious Experience going for months, I cannot get through Lacan without trying to reread thousands of pages of Freud. The Kem Nunn book I was so excited about sits. I cannot get into the Dylan Chronicles, I have not made progress in poetry readings in months – everything thing is kind of backing up & that is causing me to get frustrated.
not sure why, I mean all this reading is supposed to be fun – I can take fun and make it work for no reason…
David Given Schwarm 