New Comic Day + Other Foo
Oct. 25th, 2006 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Just one book for me this week:
Daredevil #90 (Okay. That's about it, really)
Full reviews up as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Also, I hit the used bookstores today and picked up 5 books for $2.50:
The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison
When Gravity Fails, by George Alec Effinger
The Year's Best Science Fiction 1975
Heechee Rendezvous, by Frederik Pohl
Morlock Night by K.W. Jeter
In another used bookstore I also finally found and picked up a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Now maybe I'll be able to get what all you loony freaks are talking about sometimes. ;)
Work was okay, a bit heavier than usual, but he got there early.
I skipped lunch. I think my body is telling me to cut down on my caloric intake as I've been a bit uninterested in lunch lately. Or maybe I just need to buy better food. In any event, I listen to my body, so I skipped it, and just had a muffin at work.
Did the full circuit walk today because I just missed the bus on the way home, and when that happens it's usually quicker to just walk it.
Plus I save on busfare, which means that effectively either I got the comic or the first 5 used books for free! ;). Along the way I mostly though about the Marvel campaign I might run for my brother and his gf. Just sort of mentally throwing around ideas. Also came up with a story idea I might want to work on.
Oh, and dream foo, in which I kill someone.
Anyway, there was this girl. I wasn't connected to her directly, she was like a friend or something (one of those 'not a real person' dream people). She was in a really abusive relationship with a controlling guy (who looked like Al Swearingen in Deadwood)... but she decided to leave him. Anyway, I was outside or her place for some reason, and there was a little unrelated bit where I thought someone was breaking into my car (apparently in the dream world, I had one). I went up to him and punched him, but then realized I made a mistake, he was actually trying to break into the car in front of mine, because he'd locked his keys in it. Just at that moment, Joss Whedon showed up. And I was like, wow, cool, I met Joss Whedon! And just my luck it happened right as I punched a guy for no reason.
Anyway, as I was trying to apologize, I noticed the girl's abusive boyfriend coming. And I knew that she was going to her car but hadn't quite left yet and if he caught her leaving he'd do something horrible, so I tried to stall him, but it didn't work and something Whedon and the other guy did distracted me and the boyfriend got past me. So I followed him to when he caught up with the girl.
Somehow in the dream, I knew that he was going to kill her. I can't remember if he actually tried, in the dream, I started fighting with him to give her time to get away... but I realized that he was crazy and possessive enough to hunt her down and kill her if he ever got the chance.
So I started beating him... and I realized that I'd have to kill him. I beat him repeatedly against the ground and wall and anything handy (we were in an alley at this point). And it became really gory, too. His eyeballs popped out and his face fell off. Anyway, eventually he was dead, but the girl had gone back to her apartment, and I went there to explain that it was okay, he was dead. (I think the girlfriend had a new boyfriend there, maybe the one she was leaving the old guy for). I told them they'd have to be careful because when the police come looking to find out what happened, they might search the place and discover whatever the girlfriend and new guy had that was illegal (drugs, maybe? I dunno. In the dream I did). Then I got worried that they might think one of _them_ did it if I just ran away, so I told them I'd go tell the police about it and confess, and hope that it gets judged as self-defense.
Killing people's actually very unusual for me in a dream. I mean sure, I have the occasional action adventure or war dream where I might be shooting at somebody, but it's never personal, I don't even usually have any conception that I hit or not. I think there are only 2 times I recall actually deciding to kill somebody in a dream (maybe 2 and a half), before this. One was a dream where essentially it was somebody asking me to kill them, because they didn't want to live (I can't recall the exact context, if he was sick or anything. Oddly I _do_ remember that it took place at school, though), and so I did. The other time and a half was during lucid dreams. The big one was when I was young and still having the odd recurring dream about being kidnapped, I realized it was a dream, grabbed the kidnapper, flew him up into the air, and dropped him. (The 'half' is another lucid dream where I was being chased in an somewhat action adventure context, and then when I realized it was a dream, I pulled a gun out of thin air and fired at the people who caught me, but then I woke up). Anyway, I guess I'm slightly pleased that if I had to kill someone dream-me was at least somewhat noble about it and did it for a good reason.
Daredevil #90 (Okay. That's about it, really)
Full reviews up as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Also, I hit the used bookstores today and picked up 5 books for $2.50:
The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison
When Gravity Fails, by George Alec Effinger
The Year's Best Science Fiction 1975
Heechee Rendezvous, by Frederik Pohl
Morlock Night by K.W. Jeter
In another used bookstore I also finally found and picked up a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Now maybe I'll be able to get what all you loony freaks are talking about sometimes. ;)
Work was okay, a bit heavier than usual, but he got there early.
I skipped lunch. I think my body is telling me to cut down on my caloric intake as I've been a bit uninterested in lunch lately. Or maybe I just need to buy better food. In any event, I listen to my body, so I skipped it, and just had a muffin at work.
Did the full circuit walk today because I just missed the bus on the way home, and when that happens it's usually quicker to just walk it.
Plus I save on busfare, which means that effectively either I got the comic or the first 5 used books for free! ;). Along the way I mostly though about the Marvel campaign I might run for my brother and his gf. Just sort of mentally throwing around ideas. Also came up with a story idea I might want to work on.
Oh, and dream foo, in which I kill someone.
Anyway, there was this girl. I wasn't connected to her directly, she was like a friend or something (one of those 'not a real person' dream people). She was in a really abusive relationship with a controlling guy (who looked like Al Swearingen in Deadwood)... but she decided to leave him. Anyway, I was outside or her place for some reason, and there was a little unrelated bit where I thought someone was breaking into my car (apparently in the dream world, I had one). I went up to him and punched him, but then realized I made a mistake, he was actually trying to break into the car in front of mine, because he'd locked his keys in it. Just at that moment, Joss Whedon showed up. And I was like, wow, cool, I met Joss Whedon! And just my luck it happened right as I punched a guy for no reason.
Anyway, as I was trying to apologize, I noticed the girl's abusive boyfriend coming. And I knew that she was going to her car but hadn't quite left yet and if he caught her leaving he'd do something horrible, so I tried to stall him, but it didn't work and something Whedon and the other guy did distracted me and the boyfriend got past me. So I followed him to when he caught up with the girl.
Somehow in the dream, I knew that he was going to kill her. I can't remember if he actually tried, in the dream, I started fighting with him to give her time to get away... but I realized that he was crazy and possessive enough to hunt her down and kill her if he ever got the chance.
So I started beating him... and I realized that I'd have to kill him. I beat him repeatedly against the ground and wall and anything handy (we were in an alley at this point). And it became really gory, too. His eyeballs popped out and his face fell off. Anyway, eventually he was dead, but the girl had gone back to her apartment, and I went there to explain that it was okay, he was dead. (I think the girlfriend had a new boyfriend there, maybe the one she was leaving the old guy for). I told them they'd have to be careful because when the police come looking to find out what happened, they might search the place and discover whatever the girlfriend and new guy had that was illegal (drugs, maybe? I dunno. In the dream I did). Then I got worried that they might think one of _them_ did it if I just ran away, so I told them I'd go tell the police about it and confess, and hope that it gets judged as self-defense.
Killing people's actually very unusual for me in a dream. I mean sure, I have the occasional action adventure or war dream where I might be shooting at somebody, but it's never personal, I don't even usually have any conception that I hit or not. I think there are only 2 times I recall actually deciding to kill somebody in a dream (maybe 2 and a half), before this. One was a dream where essentially it was somebody asking me to kill them, because they didn't want to live (I can't recall the exact context, if he was sick or anything. Oddly I _do_ remember that it took place at school, though), and so I did. The other time and a half was during lucid dreams. The big one was when I was young and still having the odd recurring dream about being kidnapped, I realized it was a dream, grabbed the kidnapper, flew him up into the air, and dropped him. (The 'half' is another lucid dream where I was being chased in an somewhat action adventure context, and then when I realized it was a dream, I pulled a gun out of thin air and fired at the people who caught me, but then I woke up). Anyway, I guess I'm slightly pleased that if I had to kill someone dream-me was at least somewhat noble about it and did it for a good reason.
