(It just occurred to me that the phrase \"no news is good news\" could be interpreted very pessimistically, as in \"none of the news is good.\")<\/p>\n
Things have not been improving today. I got very little sleep last night—too stressed, despite combining NyQuil and valerian. Didn't get much done at work. After I came home, received email letting me know that a friend's mother died suddenly a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
But I'm trying to find bright spots, and the day hasn't been all bad. Sunshine this afternoon, for example. This evening, spent a while playing Botticelli via IRC; fun. Was surprised to learn that most of the other players had never heard of Namor, the Sub-Mariner<\/a>—I mean, sure, most people today have never heard of a lot of the golden-age Marvel superheroes (the Whizzer, the Human Torch (original android version) and his sidekick Toro, Miss America, et alia), but Namor has continued to be a fairly popular character, in various forms, through the '90s. I was half-surprised not to see him (or most of the other Invaders) mentioned explicitly in Kavalier & Clay.<\/cite> Turns out the person running the round was actually thinking of another superhero, Nightcrawler, which prompted me to poke around online and find a picture of Alan Cumming in costume as Nightcrawler<\/a> for X-Men 2.<\/cite> The photo doesn't give me high hopes about the movie (which opens in two weeks)—he somehow doesn't look as organic\/realistic to me as Nightcrawler is supposed to look<\/a>—but we'll see.<\/p>\n Other than that, have spent most of the evening reading the first sixth or so of a fun novel that we'll be critiquing at workshop next weekend. Sometimes escapism is good.<\/p>\n Am surprisingly awake at the moment. Doubt that'll last.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (It just occurred to me that the phrase “no news is good news” could be interpreted very pessimistically, as in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}