Week 23-26 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa!

Well howdy! We are back to being hosted on Ghost. Yours truly made a really stupid mistake with my hosting provider, and lost my whole website (and email) temporarily. So we are starting from scratch, thankfully I still had 6 months left on my Ghost plan so the transition back was no big deal. Maybe this is a good thing. A total refresh and overhaul for the summer.

All of our starts went in the greenhouse on 1 June. Basil is in the ground, and everything else is hardening off. We ate our first batch of garlic scapes on a homemade pizza over the weekend. The garlic went in a little late, so it'll probably be late June/July before they are harvested. Food is starting to trickle in, and i'm looking forward to pestopalooza over the summer.

Before the website oops I had posted my final pages of the first volume of Nix/86, the diary comic I have been working on since last year. I'll start posting the next volume on 8 June. I think I'll collate the first volume, and see if I can get it into a reasonable sized PDF for download. Lots of creative decisions ahead.

I'll keep this short for now... lots of revamping to do!

Curiosities

1. Need more books for your reading list? Check out the wide variety of lists at The Greatest Books of All Time.

2. I've really big digging the contemporary art site Colossal lately.
   
3. makade-mashkikiwaaboo is how you say coffee in ojibwe. Which translates to black medicine liquid.
   
4. Returning to print after nearly 50 years, Survivor completes Octavia E. Butler’s thrilling Patternist series, including a short story from the Patternist saga and new historical essays from a major Butler scholar. Pre-order here: Survivor by Octavia Butler.
   
5. 50 Watts is a growing archive of weird and wonderful visual ephemera from around the world.

Consuming

Books
Just finished: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Now Reading: Mistborn (Sanderson), Songlines (Chatwin), Pandora's Star (Hamilton)

TV/Movies
Count of Monte Cristo (PBS) - two episodes in it's as faithful to the book as you can be for an 8 episode mini-series of a 1000+ page book.

Music

Thanks for reading! See you next week...