Back to work this month.
- NYer of 8/8/22. Poem by Simon Armitage consisting of anagrams of "Simon Armitage": "I am a Song Timer. /I am Sir Megaton./ Against Memoir I am."
- NYer of 6/27/22. There's a half-million dollar hand-made mattress hand-stitched in Sweden. Drake has one.
- The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Moorcock. Mostly earlier tales rounded out with a couple new ones.
- NYer of 8/5/2024. Long true-crime story on murders at Whitehouse Farm in U.K.
- X-Men/Fantastic Four: 4X by Chip Zdarsky and Dodsons. I really enjoyed this despite the lazy interior art. But they nailed family faces; kids really do look like different combos of Reed and Sue.
- Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko. Fine set up (cyborg looking to recover 48 different human parts) but not enough to keep going.
- NYer of 2/7/22. Read while traveling
- Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley. Set of exiquisite Munro-esque stories about either British girls growing up in the 60s ("The Abduction," "Bad Dreams") or contemporary British women of a certain age ("Flight," Under the Sign of the Moon").
- NYer of 8/12/24.Teen RFK, Jr., tripping on acid, runs into picture of father uncle and Jesus praying. Bad trip ensues.
- The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. Best stories= 1)The Veldt 2)The Long Rain 3)Kaliedescope 4)Rocket Man. Worst= title story; Marionettes, Inc.; The Rocket.
- The Nation of August 2024. Rae Armantrout's "Witch": "Cousin Rust,/with your look of blood| and sunset,//In almost in love/with the lace you've made/of metal"