The Russia/Georgia thing is continuing to get virtual ink.
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kali921, thoughts?And then there's the big event this weekend, what Gabo herself calls "the happiest day of the year", Free Comic Book Day. Bride, myself, and the children will be at Gabi's Olympic Cards and Comics from noon until...until rather late, I expect. Dashiell and Elliot are both intending to come in costume. I may post pictures. I may not. I may dare to eat a peach.
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Followed by ECCC volunteer preparation day and then ECCC itself. Man, that's soon.
Seriously, when did it sneak up on us?
I'm looking forward to it, though!
btw.. If you are partaking of FCBD, you should definitely stop by the Comics Dungeon. They've got a huge sale going on as well. Free and cheap comics FTW!
I promise to give more cogent and serious commentary later on the Georgian/Abkhazia/Russia Axis of Skirmish, because I've been wading through the OSINT groups, news groups, and news sites for the past two days. Right now it's sort of:
RUSSIA: Hey, Sakartvelo! Hope you don't mind, but we'd like to flex our colonial imperative again. Just a smidge, for old times sake. What do you say? Border skirmish on May 2nd at 06:00, safe collaborative competition from a position of mutual strength, etc.?
GEORGIA: Yeah, you remember how well that whole Pan-Slavism thing worked out, right?
ARMENIA: Oh, for fuck's sake, will you two get a room already?
PUTIN: Wait a second! How many bottles of Tamada Kindzmarauli do I have left?
SAAKASHVILI: *waves roses*
ABKHAZIA: I'm standing RIGHT HERE. You realize that, right?
WORLD PRESS: Oh, shiny! *entranced*
SERBS IN KOSOVO: Hey, thanks, guys! Now that the heat's off, let's get this party started!
ALBANIANS IN KOSOVO: Bring it, bitches.
EVERYONE ELSE IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLICS: Uh...hello?
ARMENIA: Well, this is embarrassing.
UKRAINE: Tell me about it. I have to share a border with one of these jerks.
GORBACHEV, SOMEWHERE IN MOSCOW: ...You're ALL assholes, you know that?
Edited at 2008-04-30 12:59 am (UTC)
Now, could you please decode the current market inflation of oil?
ALL ARAB OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES EXCEPT FOR DUBAI: Hmm. Does the world have any 8-Star hotels?
DUBAI: 7-Star and holding, biznatches! *smug*
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: STFU.
ALL ARAB OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES EXCEPT FOR DUBAI: Well, this won't do. *raises price to $125 per barrel*
CARIOCA EXPLORATION AREA: *SPLOOGE!*
PETROBAS: !!!
VENZUELA: ...
BRAZIL: WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!
HUGO CHAVEZ: YOUR FOUND CRUDE IS IDEOLOGICALLY IMPURE. REVISIONISTS!
KAZAKHSTAN: *sigh*
BRAZIL: BITE ME.
RUSSIA: Hey, what's Georgia doing this weekend?
As it is, I'm currently writing "in Dubai" so to speak, and the 7 stars are entertaining, what with the toilets backing up inside, etc, etc. Though I hear the service is excellent.
Have to say, when I read this, I could only imagine Russia as a 40-something Putin in black leather jacket and wraparound sunglasses with a zucchini in his, uh...pocket.
I know. As a general fan of the Russians and their stoic ability to withstand the kind of hardship that would break the spines of most of the rest of humanity, I kind of miss the days when "Russia" could be synonymous with Пётр Великий or the very mercurial Khrushchev, who would not hesitate to mete out a beatdown with a loafer. (I'm reading Khrushchev's memoirs again. If you take the long view, Nikita was rather awesome.)
And if Elliot and Dash (You must call her that right? Its just too perfect) got all costumed up I'm begging you to post pictures! Its very cool that they are into it. My dad's a dentist and let me tell you, at 7 I was so NOT INTO IT! :)
Speaking of novel characters, have you had the usual eBay auction yet? I haven't seen anything about it and of course I'd like to bid.
VERY VERY much looking forward to it. The new shop is so set to have all her new guests!! :)
Brandon, Jess, and Orion will be there as well!