When I don’t make rhubarb pies, I make peach melbas. It’s very commonly found on dessert menu in French restaurants, but pretty much nowhere to be seen in North America so I have to take this matter into my own hands!

The funny thing is that historical inaccuracy IS historically accurate when it comes to the Iliad and the Odyssey, because Homer wrote the thing at least 400 years later, and got a bunch of details wrong about, like, Bronze Age warfare for instance!

Looking up tech news this week, it seems we have the choice between dystopian communist AI and dystopian capitalist and/or nazi AI? That’s, err, that’s the choice here?

Met this old grumpy little guy recently.

Played a game of Gloom with the younger kid, and some of the characters had so many life events on them that you could barely see the portrait anymore… anyway, Gloom is fun! Play some Gloom!

Surprisingly, sometime in the last few months Marvel Comics seems to have joined the list of publishers who do allow downloading (DRM-free?) PDFs of your purchases on Neon Ichiban… huh. I might buy a few digital Marvel comics after all.

This talk about Supergirl’s box office failings, and the competing cuts with different songs and so on, reminds me that I dislike “unchecked James Gunn” movies that look like a loose series of partial music videos edited for viral potential and badly cut into a 5-bullet-point story.

I’ve been doing a lot of research on Rasputin lately and wow, apparently his eyes were a flaming glow, and he was very nice to Muscovite poultry. He preached the bible like a preacher, was a lover of the Russian Queen, plus something about a cat. So interesting. Still lots more to learn about him.

GURPS turned 40 years old a couple days ago! I don’t have a complete GURPS collection, because that would be crazy, but I definitely have way more than anybody should reasonably have. Which sounds great if you ask me.

VanCAF haul! Great little comicbook convention once again. Thank you to all the artists who came.