Editor’s Note: This is a long post, I apologize, but once you get to the end I think you’ll find that it was well worth the journey!
Given the fact that I have changed my blog header to showcase figures from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman/The Dreaming comics series and that yesterday’s post was very Neil-centric, it was no surprise to see Stephanie’s comment in yesterday’s post: “You are certainly a big Neil Gaiman fan…”
My first thought was, “is she calling me fat?”. Considering I am hosting the 10:4 Challenge that isn’t a real stretch of the imagination.
In the last few days I have been tagged by both Angela (SciFiChick) and JenClair to do the 8 Random Things Meme.
The rules are simple, post 8 random things/habits about yourself and tag 8 others. I had in mind a post about recent acquisitions lined up for today, so I decided to have fun and combine the two. These (not-so) random pictures will no doubt reveal as much about me as would eight words-only facts. The question of whether or not I am bending the rules for this meme is not open to debate…I believe I am well within the spirit and probably the letter of the law. The real question is whether or not I can stick to just eight. Honestly, you already know the answer to that one, don’t you?
… we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
~Paul Bowles
“This is like deja vu all over again.”
~Yogi Berra
It did feel somewhat like life repeating itself this weekend. It was a little over two years ago that I spent the weekend in an orgy of geek bliss…a comic movie (Sin City) and Planet Comicon.
And this weekend it was the same, all over again…and more!
For those of you who have been sharing comments on the Poppet Planet thread: The Key is the Thing: The Art of the Symbolic, I encourage you to check out the work of photographer/web designer Thorii Pablo. You can see his work on his blog site and many more interesting photographs on his flickr site, many of which, I feel, fit into some of the symbolic, iconic imagery we are talking about in that post.
