Zzz: November 24, 2008
http://www.vex.net/~smarry/zzz/2008-11-24.html
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I'm afraid I made a nuisance of myself at a meeting last week. No-one wanted to know that the reason a project that I wrote a specification for isn't ready is that we didn't check it the three times that it needs. I didn't actually get around to saying that, though; I just kind of ranted for a while. My boss wasn't too happy with me afterwards.
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Berlin #14, Jason Lutes, Drawn and Quarterly:
Communist landlord Zweig calls in a favour to deal with a deadbeat, and... you guessed it. It's not just the avowed fascists that are forsaking temporary solutions. Rachel gets a respite from starvation from a Jewish friend whose grandfather breaks into their argument about the ex-Kaiser with an exposition of Nathan and David that finally made sense to me. The Cola Kids sign a deal to play at a new place, and the ink is hardly dry before the hijinks (or perhaps lojinks) start. Marthe's mother visits her at Anna's place to try to convince her to visit her father in Cologne, but nothing doing. Finally, Severing, the journalist whose arrival kicked off this whole story, waxes drunkenly cynical on recent political developments, while a parade marches off to a rally in reaction to the death of Horst Wessel.
I'm mostly just glad that the artist gets everyone's name in at least once, since it's kind of a long time between issues.
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The trouble with making 7 servings of chickpea mushroom tofu stew is that I end up eating chickpea mushroom tofu stew for lunch and dinner for three days straight, because, of course, I am far too lazy to cook when I can just reheat something from the fridge.