¡Festival de libros!

Today I went 11th anual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. It was grand. This is the actually the 4th time I've been, the first being when I 10 a long time ago back in 1996, but this is the first time I've been as a literati, college student with all my radical opinions and what not. It was pretty good, I guess i missed the legendary Mr. Ray Bradbury speak yesterday (i was too hung over to attend after a rousing night with one Mr. Burt Bacharach at the UCLA annual Spring Sing), so that kinda sucks. There were many, many vendors there... a surprising amount of liberal vendors, and I don't mean just you average everyday Blue state citizen, i mean people with displays reading How to kick Republican Butt and Why Republican's Hate America. Is reading related to liberalism? Who knows.

I picked up an Invisables graphic novel I needed at the Heidi-Ho display, and bought some mystery books, oh and I got a free Qur'an at one vendor. So i got a lot of reading ahead of me.

Ok, I want to clarify something, I am no dirty hippie. Sure I protest Coca Cola at the campus, and hold demonstrations against sweat shop labor, and don't shower for days at a time. But no hippie am I. So here I am walking at the Festival of Books when an actual hippie... I mean long bearded, head band wearin, pot smokin hippir comes up and says "you look like you'd be interested in this." and hands me a flyer for a show called: "I'm Gonna Kill The Presidnet" a federal offense. What the hell, why would he assume that. Is it my beard? my unwashed, scragly hair? my hemp shoes or flannel shirt? damn hippies.

But on the good side I did get to have a rousing conversation with Phil Ortiz, so that was good.

Don't call it a comeback

So, i thought I would give this old blogging thing a second try, so now I'm back... newer and even more improved. I really havn't done much in my five month hiatus: read a lot of comics, went to a lot of shows, and even went to class a few times. Oh, i also changed my major from the pitfalls of Political Science to Geography. Because cartographers rule! I spend most of my time with the SJA, not to confused with the team that fought Nazi's, it stands for the Social Justice Alliance... we protest and stuff like that, oh and feed the homeless. I'm married to my work. And also, I would totally be Hourman.

It's almost sad, my comic budget as little as it is now, I only pick up three or four books a week, and for the most part I'm completely missing out on all the going ons within the Marvel Universe. The guy at Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash mentioned something of a an Infinite Cri- er, uh, Civil War in Marvel; where some hot button issue divides the Marvel hero's into two camps, north and south or something like that. I'll borrow the trade. Luckily FCBD is in about a week, so I got that going for me... I'll be back in my shady little town of Ventura with the beautiful waterfall that overlooks the city. I'll be able to enjoy FBCD as a consumer this year rather than Mike Sterling's free comic errand boy

Hopefully I'll be able to maintain this site, but considering I really don't have much to do, I think I'll be sound. I still havn't the decided the direction of this particular site, so tune in tommorow, New Kid time, New Kid channel.



By the way I never really figured out what happened to my first blog, one day it was there and the next day it wasn't. I blame immigrants coming in and taking American blogs from American bloggers.