yogurt wars and Swamp Thing

[thejunipertree]

It is morning, rainy morning, and I am sitting at my desk and attempting to eat a cup of whole milk vanilla truffle organic yogurt. This is not going as well as I had originally planned. For starters, I actually hate yogurt, despite the fact that I keep trying to convince myself otherwise. Secondly, the yogurt is vanilla truffle, meaning chocolate. Mix that shit up and what do you get? A substance that very much resembles poo. I do not eat poo-based substances. I just threw it out a minute ago, in defeat.

It's been a vastly icky weekend, as the keen-eyed could probably already tell. But, there have been a few bright spots. Reading the Harry Potter book on Saturday felt like Christmas. Eating cereal late Saturday night with the Engineer while we watched a documentary about credit card debt (Maxed Out, I so recommend this). Going grocery shopping, one of my all-time favorite things to do. And being given a copy of Saga of the Swamp Thing, personally signed to me by Steve Bissette.

I may need to repeat myself on that bit: I GOT A COPY OF THIS, SIGNED BY THIS GUY. Personally signed! To me! From him! With a Swamp Thing doodle!

I do not think many people out there realize exactly how fucking awesome this is.

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[morsobscena.livejournal.com]

Stephen Bissette is a really, really swell and approachable guy. I met him years ago (like, 20 years ago almost now) at a horror convention in Albany where he was plugging his work in the Gore Shriek comic, which was new at the time. He drew a little doodle for me too, when he signed my GS #1, and we talked about infectious diseases (don't ask) for like 20 minutes...