The Twelve Colonies and the Duke of Astibar

[fajrdrako]

Today I revisited favourite things. In the morning, it was a book: I was rereading Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. It was the first of his books that I read - in fact, I heard some of it first when he did a reading at Ad Astra shortly before (or after) it was published. It remains one of my favourite books, but I haven't read it in a long time.

Just long enough to forget details, and rediscover them delightfully.

A lot of the day was spent with fairly mundane things - it was a beautiful day, and I went for a walk to buy groceries at a distant grocery store, and to buy comics at the Silver Snail. The comics I got were:

1. Iron Man #3 by Warren Ellis
2. Nightwing #3 by Devin Grayson
3. Gotham Central #30 by Greg Rucka
(Yay! One of my very favourites!)
4. Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur #1 because it has P. Craig Russell art. I always love his work.

This evening, I watched 3/4 of the pilot of the new Battlestar Galactica with maaboroshi, josanpq, laitosto and meri_oddities. It held our attention as much this time around as before - sometimes being able to anticipate what's coming up makes the suspense even worse. It was particularly interesting to see Helo with Galactica's Boomer, or to watch again the explosion on Caprica when Number Six seemed to have protected Baltar from the blast. When Helo gave his seat on the rescue ship to Baltar I wanted to scream at him, "No! Don't do it!"