Day 597

Aka Wednesday 19^th September

I did the G2 crossword:

…which went a bit worse, with having to cheat on a quarter of the clues (six out of 22), but I’d argue that ‘Hobsons Choice’ is not the ‘option of taking what’s on offer or getting nothing at all’, I always had it as two bad choices, not one good and one bad. And I learnt that ‘sago’ is a ‘powdery starch from a palm’ and that ‘Alsace’ is a ‘region of France, once annexed by Prussia’…

I then popped on the train into London Town for New Comic Book Day and got these fine examples of comic book excellence:

…I also got a John Wayne boxset, mostly because it was the only way I could get a copy of ‘El Dorado’ on DVD (plus there's other great films in the boxset, such as 'The Shootist' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'), a reissue of ‘Donnie Darko’, my fourth copy of this film as it was only £3 and I think it has new featurettes (my first copy was a special edition of the first UK release, the second was a bog standard DVD that I could lend to friends and the third was the director’s cut) and Aretha Franklin’s ‘Young, Gifted and Black’.

When I got back home I found that the postman had delivered my ‘The Thing’ hoodie:

…and I listened to episode two (‘If A Tree Falls In A Forest…’) of Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes, in which Mr Newman “does battle with Jean-Paul Sarte and the existentialists”, in which Mr Newman discusses the “confusion of science with theology and confusion of science with macho melodrama”, which I read as being the mistake of believing that the brain/human being is separate from nature, that the human gives meaning to the world, rather than the world having a reason with or without humans (hence the episode title of ‘If A Tree Falls In A Forest…’). Either way it’s a fun and interesting listen.

…and as I was falling asleep I heard scratching and there it was, another god-damned mouse…