Are you talking about philosophy or the committee?

[sovay]

And courtesy of shweta_narayan, the webcomic that ate my life yesterday: Family Man. The Enlightenment! Judaism! University politics! Theological debates! In-jokes about Ovid! In-jokes about Rousseau! Careful research of taxonomically appropriate pine trees! Our half-Jewish protagonist just tried to defend a dissertation on Spinoza at Göttingen in 1768. The werewolves at his new lectureship are the least of his problems.

In the meantime, Kate Beaton has been reviewed by The Economist.

I am not doing anything near that interesting today. I still have this book, though.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

If The Economist called me "resolutely silly," I'd be over the moon. Mind you, I'd have to be as good as Kate Beaton.

Family Man? All that and gorgeous. I will try to set aside a day to fall into it.

Everyone: that book is fabulous.

Nine

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

I looked at the "current" strip. Don't understand it at all. Maybe if I look at back entries, it will make more sense.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I want to read both of these. Just as soon as I get free time. I hope they have internet in Hel.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Do you read Al'Rashad (http://mightygodking.com/index.php/alrashad-city-of-myths/) already, by the way? If not, you may wish to add it...

I believe there are feeds on both DW and LJ. Once a week, not high-volume.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I find "Prospero's" review of Hark! A Vagrant! unintentionally funny. He sounds like such a stuffed shirt, I can't help but see him as a Kate Beaton cartoon of a little spherical Prospero with a long beard, spouting on in recursive language while Miranda plays with her Legos. Or Queen Victoria. ("We are amused. More cute cat pictures at once.")

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

It looks as if that's another comic I'll have to be careful about reading.*

I'm pleased with the Kate Beaton review. First The Economist, then the world.

I hope it's a pleasant day despite not being near so interesting.

I still have this book, though.

It's a good one.

*IOW, I suspect I'd like it.

[genarti]

Oh, Family Man! I keep meaning to do a post recommending it to everyone I know, because it really is fabulous. A very specific and geeky kind of fabulous, but this is true of most of my friends too. So that works out.

(Plus I have met the author -- she and my brother were friends in college -- and she's delightful. So that would be a point in its favor for me even if it weren't independently excellent.)