Halloween, Halloween, Trick or Treat

We headed up to Janice & Ted's house tonight to take Anna and Peyton out Trick or Treating. You can see some pictures of Anna in costume here.

Uncle Scrooge's Money Bin

One of my fondest memories as a kid was sitting back and reading Don Rosa's Uncle Scrooge comic books. Now an artist has reproduced it faithfully in miniature. His photos also link to some more great information on the money bin and Uncle Scrooge.

Daft Punk: Alive

Daft Punk is releasing a new album called Alive which was recorded during their recent tour. The widget below gives you a taste of what the album offers.

Crooked Little Vein

To the best of my knowledge, Crooked Little Vein is the first novel by prolific comic book writer Warren Ellis. Let me see if I can sum up the plot.

A heroin addicted US chief of staff hires a Manhattan private investigator, Mike McGill, to find an alternate US constitution. The book was written by the founding fathers of America and details their true plans for the country. Richard Nixon lost the book in the 50's and since them American society has been getting progressively worse. The trail leads Mike on a cross country chase for the book where he encounters every sort of depravity you shouldn't be able to imagine.

I was constantly laughing out loud during while reading this book. The deviants and underground cults that Mike finds himself getting involved with are disturbingly funny. The message that is coming across is that the underground is now mainstream. Anything you can think of can now be found on-line. It's like the ultimate long tail example.

If you are unable to keep an open mind this book is probably not for you but if you can get passed the descriptions of sexual situations you will really enjoy this noirish detective novel.

Anna's First Skate

Our friends, Ernesto, Anmar, Andre and Alexa invited us out to go skating tonight. Amazingly enough this would be the first time that Anna would ever be out on ice skates. One quick trip to Canadian Tire to pick up some bob skates and a helmet and we were all set. Anna loved skating and we'll be heading back to skate night in a few weeks.

Pictures of the skate can be found here.

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Promo

Sandman Mystery Theater Find

There was a comic book sale at Landsdowne Park this Sunday and I stopped by to see if I could find any deals and ended up picking up 3 of the 5 volumes of Sandman Mystery Theater.

Sandman Mystery Theater is film-noir, hard boiled detective novel in a serialized comic book form. It follows the adventures of Wesley Dodds a wealthy socialite in 1930's New York as he solves crimes as the gas mask clad vigilante, the Sandman.

Great reads for any fans of the pulp fiction crime dramas.