I had a list of things I’d hoped to do over the weekend and was able to check off exactly one of them (writing this week’s Flipped). I’m not really disappointed, because nothing on the list was what you would call critical, and I managed to keep myself out of trouble all the same.
I didn’t have any luck finding a copy of Capote in Kansas (Oni) at either of the local bookstores, but I did finally cave in and pick up the first volume of Gravitation (Tokyopop). I had browsed through it ages ago and wasn’t particularly impressed, but after reading the Steven and Jillian Grant’s review in the latest Comics Journal, I wanted to give it another shot. Apparently in that first glance-through, I’d fixated on the moody, angry bits and had failed to notice how funny the title is. It’s always nice to come late to a title that has plenty of volumes to pick up at leisure.
The second volume of Yotsuba&! (ADV) was nowhere to be found either, though there was an empty space on the shelf where it might once have been. So off to the internet I went, ordering both of Frederick L. Schodt’s books on manga as well (bargain priced if ordered together). Belatedly wondering how I might finance all this, I finally put some of my old comics up for auction on EBay. Nothing particularly exciting, mind you… just some test auctions. It’s just the next step in finding More Money for Manga.
I wasn’t even ambitious in the kitchen. I’d meant to look through some cookbooks and try some new recipes, but I got distracted by basil and ripe hot peppers in the garden and made the same spicy tofu I do all the time.
And the dog got a bath, and the lawn got mowed, and the house is clean, so it’s not like I was an utterly self-indulgent slug.