Jul. 21st, 2025 02:38 pm
july 2025
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davemerrillIt got hot, it cooled down, it got hot again. The Honda Indy happened and this year that means the unit next door got air bnb'd out to some party people, who started partying at 2pm Saturday, went on until about dinnertime, started up again at 11pm and went on until midnight, and then stopped. After the construction noise that destroyed us when they remodeled the place last spring? I'm callin' the cops if they go past midnight.
Traffic was terrible this weekend - which is only like the second weekend of bad bad traffic this whole summer. A definite improvement over last summer, where construction on King meant everything was routed right through our neighborhood and it was repeated gridlock every single weekend.
We got the bikes out Saturday and rode across town to the new park by the new path of the Don River, which has been rejiggered to flow more naturally instead of the weird angle past disused port lands it used to be. It's a great park, there's a zip line and a giant owl kids can climb around inside, people were kayaking and paddleboarding on the Don, which is, let me just say, not a thing you ever would see before.
Sunday we went to the drive-in to see the Superman, and it's good, probably the best Superman movie thing in forty five years? It gets pretty deep into the lore, we're just thrown into things, and it's hard to say if that would have worked in 1980. It works fine in 2025, the pop culture has been infested with super people on movie screens for decades, viewers either already know what a Green Lantern is or are just gonna roll with it. Don't know who Metamorpho is? Here's a line of dialogue, we're good.
The next big project is... where am I with my projects.
I wrote 200 words on a favorite OVA (Devilman: Evil Bird Sirene) for Zimmerit.
Kicked out a Let's Anime on Robotech II, which is terrible.
Finished coloring and laying out my next comic book, going to get that printed shortly.
Am halfway through the next Let's Anime column.
Did a podcast talking about the 1979 Anne Of Green Gables anime.
Uploaded a VHS rip of a 1982 episode of the CBN Japanese culture-news magazine series "Beyond The Horizon" that talks about Japanese animation and interviews the head of NYC C/FO who shows off some amazing early 80s anime stuff. The episode came from Steve Harrison, who thought he'd lost the original tape, but managed to find it, and also managed to buy a working DVD recorder from a thrift store to get it onto disc. (All *my* DVD recorders eventually died)
Our anniversary is this Sunday and we're going to Niagara Falls and spending a couple of nights in a retro motor court style motel and seeing the sights. I took the rest of the week off and I think Neil is going to come visit the weekend of the first, which is a holiday here, so I don't go back to work until August 4.
The next event here is... I was talking a lot pre-pandemic and post-pandemic about how tough it was to get a table at the local zine shows and how I ought to start my own zine show. In 2021-22 I went so far as to start contacting venues and trying to put a budget together. Most places wouldn't even return my emails. Fast forward to this year. As it turns out, the Anime North gang were talking about how they always have hundreds of applicants to the artists alley that have to be turned away because of lack of space, and how a separate show would be great. So we combined the two and the comics/zine/arts/manga show is happening September 6!!
Traffic was terrible this weekend - which is only like the second weekend of bad bad traffic this whole summer. A definite improvement over last summer, where construction on King meant everything was routed right through our neighborhood and it was repeated gridlock every single weekend.
We got the bikes out Saturday and rode across town to the new park by the new path of the Don River, which has been rejiggered to flow more naturally instead of the weird angle past disused port lands it used to be. It's a great park, there's a zip line and a giant owl kids can climb around inside, people were kayaking and paddleboarding on the Don, which is, let me just say, not a thing you ever would see before.
Sunday we went to the drive-in to see the Superman, and it's good, probably the best Superman movie thing in forty five years? It gets pretty deep into the lore, we're just thrown into things, and it's hard to say if that would have worked in 1980. It works fine in 2025, the pop culture has been infested with super people on movie screens for decades, viewers either already know what a Green Lantern is or are just gonna roll with it. Don't know who Metamorpho is? Here's a line of dialogue, we're good.
The next big project is... where am I with my projects.
I wrote 200 words on a favorite OVA (Devilman: Evil Bird Sirene) for Zimmerit.
Kicked out a Let's Anime on Robotech II, which is terrible.
Finished coloring and laying out my next comic book, going to get that printed shortly.
Am halfway through the next Let's Anime column.
Did a podcast talking about the 1979 Anne Of Green Gables anime.
Uploaded a VHS rip of a 1982 episode of the CBN Japanese culture-news magazine series "Beyond The Horizon" that talks about Japanese animation and interviews the head of NYC C/FO who shows off some amazing early 80s anime stuff. The episode came from Steve Harrison, who thought he'd lost the original tape, but managed to find it, and also managed to buy a working DVD recorder from a thrift store to get it onto disc. (All *my* DVD recorders eventually died)
Our anniversary is this Sunday and we're going to Niagara Falls and spending a couple of nights in a retro motor court style motel and seeing the sights. I took the rest of the week off and I think Neil is going to come visit the weekend of the first, which is a holiday here, so I don't go back to work until August 4.
The next event here is... I was talking a lot pre-pandemic and post-pandemic about how tough it was to get a table at the local zine shows and how I ought to start my own zine show. In 2021-22 I went so far as to start contacting venues and trying to put a budget together. Most places wouldn't even return my emails. Fast forward to this year. As it turns out, the Anime North gang were talking about how they always have hundreds of applicants to the artists alley that have to be turned away because of lack of space, and how a separate show would be great. So we combined the two and the comics/zine/arts/manga show is happening September 6!!
