A Hog of Ground and Winter

Rag and Bone 3
Work continues, and continues, and continues. A chapter here, a chapter there, and then when it's all done, it will be time to cut and paste and rewrite and so on and so on. My point is, progress!

Media
Books, movies, shows. Too much to see, too much to read. I read through Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art, and enjoyed it immensely. I'll keep it on my shelf in case I ever make the insane decision to work in visual media or (more likely) find someone who already works in it who might want to work with me. I also picked up Scott Moore's adaptation of Marie Lu's Nightwalkers book, and that was a lot of fun. I hope Lu does more with this, and that Moore can continue to adapt the work.

Watching Fellowship again (yes, yet again), and I'm consistently blown away by the movie. It's all good -- the acting, the pacing, the sets, the costumes, the score -- and I genuinely don't know if we'll ever get something like this out of Hollywood again. It's not perfect, but it may be as close to it as such a movie ever can be.
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I've also been watching CNN's The Seventies mini-series, which has been interesting enough to get me wanting to watch their retrospectives on the other decades when I'm done with this one.

I want to watch Miyazaki's Heron movie, as I've heard nothing but praise for it, but I'm afraid I may have to wait for it to come to a streaming platform in ... June? Ugh. Oh well.
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Miscellany
We've had snow days and sniffles, dogs and storms. The day-to-day creeps in at its petty pace and moves on. On the whole, everyone is healthy. Snow days meant lots of games and blankets and a deep longing not to return to work and school for everyone, but we'll move past it. Eventually, I'm sure. 

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That's all from me, for now.
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