On the bright side...

[wiseheart]

Finally a public post, as the topics hopefully won't get me in trouble. Although over here, you can never know. But, well, the good news...

I ordered an original Galactica book through Bestsellers, the English bookshop. It turned out to be a comic book. I hate comics with a passion that borders religious zeal - well, I hate the ones you can get today; back in the good old times when in Hungary cartonists and painters made them, I used to love them. But that's another story entirely.

In any case, I was fairly desperate, as the frigging comic would have cost an insane sum, one for which I could have bought at least two nice, thick books. And wonder of wonders, the folks of the bookshop simply offered me to send it back to Amazon, instead of forcing me to buy it when I have ordered it. Mum and I were amazed beyond measure.

Then, yesterday my all-time-favourite former student visited me (the one I created the fake scholarship for; she still doesn't know the money comes from me). She brought me a cake that she'd made herself, as a belated birthday present. We sat together and talked all afternoon - it was very nice.

On Saturday, my cousin the jerk (the one to whom we still talk) is coming with his wife, who's just had her 51st birthday. Also, a female cousin whom we had little contact to so far but who's moved into the neighbourhood. I hope it'll be a nice afternoon.

Oh, and "The Lost Warrior" has reached Chapters 10 and 11, simultaneously. Yeah, I'm strange in my ways. But that's muses for you.

Comments

[jilba.livejournal.com]

So, mostly, it's been a pretty good day. I too hate comic books with a passion. I'd rather read a proper book, or watch an animated movie; the mix that is a comic book doesn't appeal at all!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

As I said, I didn't always hate comic books. I remember a few of them done by an artist called Ernő Zórád - he's not only a comic drawer but also a painterand an animated movie maker. I usually got to read the books themselves before he did the comic version, and his drawings always added a great deal of visuals to the already know works afterwards.

I tried to google for you, in order to show you how talented he is and what great comics he draw in his younger years, but I haven't found anything in that area. Nowadays, he's switched to painting, as Superman, Spiderman and the rest of that American crap has effectively killed off both Hungarian comic and Hungarian cartoons.

Another piece of unique subculture lost. :(