FIC Teaser Trailer: "Constantine" -- The Changing of the Guard

Since the Plotbunnies from Hell won't leave me alone... ( Coming soon to this LJ... )

CD-Rs and comic books and icons

Word of advice: Never buy Fujifilm brand CD-Rs. The tracks don't burn in right, thus the disk won't play continously: You have to hit the 'next' button on your CD player to get it to go to the next track. I found this out the hard way with the disk I made yesterday. Grrr. Thus, I had to re-do the entire disk (I'd somehow also missed one track of it, and put two of another track on instead. Merde.) Got that straighened out, thank goodness...

I also managed to get to Larry's Comics: I had a heck of a time trying to find "Neverwhere, Part One", but thankfully, Larry himself was there and helped me out... and since I told him I'm a *huge* fan of Neil Gaiman, he reccomended "Black Orchid" to me: I bought the first issue of it, once he tracked it down, and he kinda loaned me the other two. Wow! I like this guy. What comes of going to a mom-and-pop comic book shop...

And I finally made a lovely new icon I've been meaning to make, this of the Merv's crest, as seen on the mural in the Chateau great hall.

Merrie Midsummer's Eve to all!

Just been hanging up birch branches over our porch light against any unwelcome faerie visitors (Or at least I *think* that's why we put them up: it's an old English tradition on the eve of St. John's Day), as well as listening to Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream" music (I have *got* to find the complete recording of that...). And I added a new tradition: Reading "The Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream", as collected in the third book of the trade paperbacks, "The Sandman: Dream Country". I think I even heard of an English Lit teacher using the comic in a unit study... and with good reason: Neil sure knows how to blend history and myth together.

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot."

-- Dream, speaking in "The Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream"