Vermont: It’s great! Plus, a quick life update!

Ok folks, semi-long time, no blog (‘cept that post about the Beatles a day ago, but you get me)!

I’m going to start making that up to you all right now. First things first, “What’s been the hubbub, bub?” Let me tell you…
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General Rules For Discussing Favorite Beatles Albums

I hate picking favorites.

Favorite movie? Favorite album? Favorite Food?

These questions seem to come up endlessly throughout life and I am just not decisive enough when it comes to things I love (things, mind you) to select one above all others. When I’m asked for a favorite movie, I always seems to say, “Well, here’s five I really like.” When my fav food is asked about, I always cheat and say, “Potatoes: because they’re good any way you cook’em and you can cook them in a lot of ways.” It’s true, but not a definitive selection as I’m citing them as favorite for they’re versatility (super clever, huh?!). But when it comes down to favorite album, I’m always at a loss.
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Highest Recommendations: ‘De:Tales—Stories from Urban Brazil’

Presently, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá are well known in the world of comics with especial thanks to Dark Horse Comics’ popular Umbrella Academy. Later this year, the Brazilian twin brothers join the ranks of artists who have helped make B.P.R.D an institution since it spun out of Hellboy. Me? I first came across Bá and Moon in Image Comics’ sci-spy story Casanova written by Matt Fraction. Their style so completely captured me and when I saw De:Tales in the Columbia Missouri Public Library back in 2007 I had to check it out.
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‘Live’ blogging “Caprica”

Thanks to Netflix’s “Long Wait” finally disappearing on the new “Battlestar Galactica” spin-off “Caprica,” I got a chance to check out the DVD version of the pilot episode. After reading a few live blogs over at United Monkee and elsewhere on the web over the past few weeks, I thought I’d try my hand at one while watching “Caprica.” It’s a bit choppy and full of knee-jerk reactions, but that means it’s full of outrageous, off the cuff observations! Huzzah!
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