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/0411/2002 Archived Entry: "Weekend World"

I had a very lazy weekend this weekend. I did stuff but not a huge amount of it.

The major thing I did was fiddling with database Stuff (which deserves capitalisation, I feel...). It involved trying to get database information online, which, once I worked out how to do it wasn't too hard. Unfortunately, it appears that only it is only accessible from my computer, which is a bugger, as I kind of wanted it to be available on any PC. Back to the drawing board, I think, although what I'm going to do, I'm not entirely certain.

Other than that, I really didn't do a lot. I added a bit to my database, tidied the house up - it was still a complete tip after dumping everything we brought down from Newcastle last weekend - and read Goldfish by Brian Michael Bendis. This is a graphic novel, one of his early ones, from the current writer of some of my favourite comic books (Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil, Powers and Alias). This is the stuff he started with and you can see where he's going - especially with Powers and Alias - DD and USM less so, but the dialogue is still there. He's probably the best writer of comics dialogue since Garth Ennis. It was a good week for comics this week, in fact - I missed getting them the week before with going up to Newcastle, so I had a big haul this week.

I was just about to book a ticket to Durham, Newcastle and Wooler at the end of the month, but I've just discovered that I've left my wallet at home. Which is a bugger. Oh well. That's all my plans for the day out of the window. I have a couple of quid, but that's not enough to buy the latest issue of SFX or send off some stuff to my Dad. Bum. Lucky I brought some lunch with me, really.

I've just been checking Amazon to see if I can get a link for you to rush and buy Goldfish (which you can't from Amazon. So go to your local comic shop and get it, instead) and discovered that they are offering Free Delivery for the next month or so on orders over £40 or so. I have two orders of around this level (Buffy Season One and LOTR:FOTR, Spider-Man and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones) although the Buffy one doesn't quite make it. I may have to add something to the order to get it over that level. There are lots of things I could add - Elv1s, Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (I should be going to see him next month - he's doing a talk in support of Bowling For Columbine and this book, so I should probably read it beforehand), Fire by Bendis (which, surprisingly comes up as his no.1 book on Amazon, rather than Spidey, Daredevil or Powers, which is what I would have thought would be the one.) I have, in fact, gone for Fire - as it was the cheapest one that would take me over the limit. This is a good thing... Now, I just have to wait and see if either one is unavailable. I have a feeling that Buffy may well be. We'll see. And...don't forget, if you are buying anything through Amazon - get it through the link on the front page or with this link! (Yes, it's cheap advertising, but at least it doesn't pop up or anything...)