Humid hot wings bring bookish thoughts?
We've finally had a break in the opressive heat and humidity here. It's hovered around 70 degrees all day today which meant that it was very pleasant to be outside.
I found out last night that Pizza Hut, which actually used to have decent Buffalo wings has had a nosedive in quality. I was eating chicken that not only had no flavor, it tasted like it had been in the warmer all freakin' day. Which, come to think of it, it probably had. Maybe I got spoiled by having a Wingzone here (their boneless buffalo wings rock! I also ALWAYS get an extra order of celery and blue cheese from 'em 'cause it's so good) or even by making my own wings (Franks Red Hot, I'm telling you, it's the best!), or maybe, Pizza Hut just really sucks at making chicken wings.
I'm going to get to see a friend of mine from college. I'm really looking forward to it. I miss him a lot, actually, because I ALWAYS had a buddy to go watch horror movies with when he was living here. He'd even sit and watch something with me to calm me down if the movie was really scary. (He'd even offer suggestions.) With any luck, we'll be watching my shiny, new copy of "American Psycho" Friday night.
On to something completely unrelated. I was watching a show yesterday where they talked to a guy who makes invitations for celebrity parties. The stuff he made was absolutely amazing. He should do an art book kind of like the Nick Bantock books (if you DON'T know what the hell I'm talking about go to your nearest library or bookstore and get your paws on a "Griffin & Sabine" book-they're this fusion of picture book, art book, Dave McKean reminiscent collages, and pop-up/toy books that are just a blast to read, look at, play with, and ultimately discover). I'm just thinking if you're going to make cool hands-on sorts of art projects, then your show-offy little art book should be very hands on too.
Though, I'm also all for the fine folks in charge of the show "Supernatural" to make us a nifty John Winchester style journal with things to unfold, pull out, pop-up and otherwise make us rabid fans spend way too damn much time messing with a book. For that matter, you could do that with all kinds of popular series, not just TV, books too. "The Dark Tower" could have a near-literal ton of things to explore. I think most comic books and animated series could also lend themselves to the pop-up genre.
I've got this lovely book "Mermaids" by Elizabeth Ratissou that is an art book, made for adults (though it's not ACTUALLY adult, provided she'd be careful with it, I'd gladly let my little cousin who'd actually BE interested in it look through it whenever (as I would have a good five years ago, if I'd had it, when she was ten)) that has little pockets and pieces of unexpected art under flaps and in envelopes and such. I think the world would be a much better place if there were more books like that out there. Sometimes, adults need to be able to play with their books too!
I found out last night that Pizza Hut, which actually used to have decent Buffalo wings has had a nosedive in quality. I was eating chicken that not only had no flavor, it tasted like it had been in the warmer all freakin' day. Which, come to think of it, it probably had. Maybe I got spoiled by having a Wingzone here (their boneless buffalo wings rock! I also ALWAYS get an extra order of celery and blue cheese from 'em 'cause it's so good) or even by making my own wings (Franks Red Hot, I'm telling you, it's the best!), or maybe, Pizza Hut just really sucks at making chicken wings.
I'm going to get to see a friend of mine from college. I'm really looking forward to it. I miss him a lot, actually, because I ALWAYS had a buddy to go watch horror movies with when he was living here. He'd even sit and watch something with me to calm me down if the movie was really scary. (He'd even offer suggestions.) With any luck, we'll be watching my shiny, new copy of "American Psycho" Friday night.
On to something completely unrelated. I was watching a show yesterday where they talked to a guy who makes invitations for celebrity parties. The stuff he made was absolutely amazing. He should do an art book kind of like the Nick Bantock books (if you DON'T know what the hell I'm talking about go to your nearest library or bookstore and get your paws on a "Griffin & Sabine" book-they're this fusion of picture book, art book, Dave McKean reminiscent collages, and pop-up/toy books that are just a blast to read, look at, play with, and ultimately discover). I'm just thinking if you're going to make cool hands-on sorts of art projects, then your show-offy little art book should be very hands on too.
Though, I'm also all for the fine folks in charge of the show "Supernatural" to make us a nifty John Winchester style journal with things to unfold, pull out, pop-up and otherwise make us rabid fans spend way too damn much time messing with a book. For that matter, you could do that with all kinds of popular series, not just TV, books too. "The Dark Tower" could have a near-literal ton of things to explore. I think most comic books and animated series could also lend themselves to the pop-up genre.
I've got this lovely book "Mermaids" by Elizabeth Ratissou that is an art book, made for adults (though it's not ACTUALLY adult, provided she'd be careful with it, I'd gladly let my little cousin who'd actually BE interested in it look through it whenever (as I would have a good five years ago, if I'd had it, when she was ten)) that has little pockets and pieces of unexpected art under flaps and in envelopes and such. I think the world would be a much better place if there were more books like that out there. Sometimes, adults need to be able to play with their books too!