Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present by Dan Mazur

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Disclosure: I received this book as part of the Goodreads.com First Reads program in which the winner recieves a copy of the book in exchange for a review. (It’s slightly more complicated than that, see the Goodreads First Reads terms for all the details)

I love reading these types of histories about culture. I have read similar books about photography and animation published by Taschen. This isn’t my first time reading about the history of comics, I also read 10 Cent Scare and Grant Morrison’s Supergods. Anyone who’s been reading my reviews for a while knows that I love comics and actually run a comics analysis site, www.comicpow.com.

This quarter was a mix of new music, continuing to listen to my music in alphabetical order (by artist), and whatever I happened to listen to on my phone. And that resulted in a little something like this (a lot more ties than usual): 1. The Beatles (243 listens) - For the first time in a long time the Fab Four are back on top. I continue to love their later stuff although their older stuff is played out having spent my childhood listening to oldies.

It’s once again time for my latest Photojojo post. For those of you who haven’t been following my blog for a long time, Photojojo is a digital time capsule service. Every two weeks they send me an email that has my most interesting photos posted to flickr from one year ago.

Scarlett goes to Coney Island.

SuperMario is my main Linux computer and its motherboard was dying. The first signs were the DVD burner no longer being read (knew it wasn’t just that one because I swapped out DVD burners) followed by the front panel USB not working. Then, last week, it stopped booting reliably. It was time to finally replace the motherboard. This was the Linux computer I’d built the first time I was trying to convince Danielle to use Linux (seven years ago) so it had a Core 2 Duo in it. So I’d need a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM. Here’s what KinfoCenter looked like before the swap:

One Year Ago Today: A story about the IRS targeting Conservatives. (Which later turned out to be a somewhat manufactured crisis, since the IRS was also targeting Liberals)

Five Years Ago Today: A photo essay about moving into my first house.

One Year Ago Today: A photojojo pos t - which is getting almost recursive, since that contains photos from the year before.

Five Years Ago Today:  No post

One Year Ago Today: I score a great interview with I Fight Dragons about their Kickstarter.

Five Years Ago Today: No Post

Me: Daddy is a?

Scarlett: BOY!

Me: Scarlett is a?

Scarlett: Girl! No! Princess!

One Year Ago Today: A strange typo in an email from Amazon.

Five Years Ago Today: A tutorial for Geo-Tagging your photos that still holds. (Although if you use Digikam you can do it a lot more seamlessly)

One Year Ago Today: A look back at the past ten years since Wordpress turns 10. Also, a super cute photo of Scarlett.

Five Years Ago Today: A review of Dan’s Blog. I know Dan’s been really busy. But Dan needs to get back to blogging. I love Dan’s blog posts. Dan! BLOG!