Week 1564
Posting this note a bit early, as if to banish this week from my sight. I guess it’s important to have benchmarks, right? High and low. I got sick this week—sicker than I’ve been in years, bleh—and so the days were measured mostly in mugs of tea and Netflix streams. And I got approximately nothing done!
Among the media I consumed was Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (which takes a while to get through—it’s four dense volumes). I find myself re-reading it more frequently than any other work of fiction, manga or otherwise; I think this was maybe my tenth time through. I just cannot wrap my head around how good it is—and how it was essentially Miyazaki’s side project for years. The scope of the world, the specificity of the vision… and the humanity of it. Nausicaä makes me cry every time.
I haven’t delivered on my tease about big news from last week; soon, soon.
Head spinning with iPad possibilities. It looks like such an insanely cool canvas. I can’t wait to get my hands and fingers on one.
Okay, really, that’s it. This week is now OVER.
Something else that happened this week: You were name checked over on Wetmachine with an intriguing (I think) story idea.