I just read a very beautiful, very sad Legolas/Gimli story. Why was it sad? Because Gimli died on the way to Valinor which he probably did in the books, Tolkien just didn’t want to give us more bad news. Which was nice of him. It allowed for us to have hope that just maybe someone had a happy ending.

But alas, that just has me blue for the night. I’ve been meaning to post about Foxtrot and my sadness over that. Yes I know he’s not quitting the strip but the dailies is pretty close to! Even if he comes back to the dailies in a couple years, I know that ultimately it will end and I’ll never get any new Jason’s-a-total-geek situations. I’ve been reading it for half my life. 13-14 years. Calvin and Hobbes ended when I was fairly young, I have still never read allll the Bloom County books, and I gave up on Garfield a decade ago. I don’t even remember when The Far Side ended.

It’s just never happened to me with a comic strip. TV shows and bands and books and the like don’t usually go on for 19 years so I should be allowed not to be used to it. Right?

The Simpsons better bloody well give us 3 more years. It’ll take that long to steel myself.

*sigh*

Yay! I just got an email from Fedex saying my package has shipped today and should arrive in a week. “What’s in it?” you might ask and I would answer “Why it’s my very first order from Neighborhoodies that took me months to choose and which is in fact not a hoodie at all but a nifty tote monkey! It’s a lovely silver to match most everything with ‘FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC’ in simple black text.”

As I’ve been going through a Discworld craze (these things come in cycles) and I’ve been loving Vimes more and more (oooo new Watch book this year !) and the quote works as another quote so when people ask me I just say “Make my day, punk” because explaining why they need to run to the bookstore if they don’t know takes too much time and effort for only .5% success rate.

There is so much I’ve been wanting to say the last couple weeks but my framed of my mind has been on a book I started and finished today which was just so amazingly good. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. My family is always good about recommending books to me. Although I still haven’t read half the books I own ^^;;;

Lord of the Rings fans have got to watch this. So fucking hilarious.