By the way, the American election is over, and I WON! (By "I won" I mean the fucking VACs came out right on only the second count and it was because they fucking PUT ME IN CHARGE it is not that I am incompetent, early voting election board people, it's that you have no fucking idea how to count things, which let me tell you, is really fucking reassuring.)

Things that are bad ideas:

1. The design of Maryland's voting machines and procedures.

2. Coming home from working the election and immediately mainlining S4 of The Thick of It. (what it's done to my vocabulary alone...)

3. Going into the Magic Room of Free Comics while sleep-deprived and in need of brain candy (I count myself lucky I only came out with one boxful of trades.)

4. Reading the first Phonogram trade while in the middle of writing a Thick of It urban fantasy AU (especially when one has a known weakness for New Labour spin doctors in pop band AUs. And generally really likes angry Scottish music.)


( Anyway, Phonogram )

I really liked the art, the book is definitely as good and as interestingly different as everybody was saying back in 2006, and the writer (some guy named Kieron Gillen) is probably worth keeping an eye on, at least if he's learned to write better endings. :P

Now, only 24 more trades in the box to go through and review! :D And a Big Bang draft to finally get out to artists and betas! And NaNo! And all that other stuff!