Thursday, November 16, 2006
Not sure if it’s disconcerting…
…that Kristen and I are reading the same book, and that after reading it for a few minutes the evening I bought it and on a to and from ride to work on the LRT, Kristen reads Wintersmith for, like, a little over half an hour and she passes my book mark. On one hand, I’m proud that she’s reading and reading books that I enjoy, but on the other hand, wow! She’s…She’s…Aw, screw it! I’m just proud of her.
She was a little disappointed when I told her there probably isn’t a werewolf in this particular Discworld novel. You see, Terry Pratchett has written this series in two styles: one geared for (hah!) adults and one geared for younger readers. The current book fits in the latter category, and the age group it’s intended for is the same age that the Harry Potter books are geared for. I have no doubt, however, that Kristen is mature enough to enjoy the rest of the series (there are 30 books as of last count).
I had told her about the main characters of the books; some are written about Rincewind, the wizard who knows no spells, has the word “WIZZARD” embroidered across his pointy hat and has a talent for running away from danger. Some are written about the witches, of which mostly include Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. And still, some are written about characters that only appear once or are sporadically mentioned throughout the entire series. My favorite books in the series are written about the personification of Death and his granddaughter, Susan Sto Helit (that’s a very, er, complicated story that I’m not about to explain). But, and this is besides Terry’s Wee Free Men books as of late, Mr Pratchett seems to favor writing about The Watch which is the police force of the city that seems to be mentioned in every Discworld novel, Ankh Morpork.
That introduction, which is very brief as I could go on and on and on about the characters and the descriptiveness and the wonderful, wonderful comfort the series brings to me, was to mention the fact that in The Watch there are very many humans and creatures of the biped variety, and among them is a woman, Angua, who is Captain Carrot’s girlfriend, who just happens to be a werewolf. Kristen was fascinated by this fact and wanted to read about her, and in my excitement for the latest Discworld release may have misled her into believing that Angua was in Wintersmith…my apologies to my beautiful daughter who now shares my love of all things Discworld.
Yesterday, I got an idea for the TILAH Myspace page. When you are added to another person’s friends list, you are allowed access to their comments field, and usually people (I can only assume they’re people as cats aren’t all that adept with the typing) use this area to thank the page owner for adding them to their friends list. I got a comment from another webcomic author, who does a very funny strip called Taking the Bi-Pass, in the form of a comic or panel of a comic. So I thought, what better way to introduce people to the artwork and humor that TILAH will incorporate. So I took a couple of hours to do this:
That’s all of us behind glass, and usually I include the message “Thank you for inviting us into your space!” above the image. I’m thinking I need to add another nipple on Dan, there. What is it with my nipple fascination lately? Speaking of which, Cry Baby Mason took second place in the CD challenge over at the animation forum.
She was a little disappointed when I told her there probably isn’t a werewolf in this particular Discworld novel. You see, Terry Pratchett has written this series in two styles: one geared for (hah!) adults and one geared for younger readers. The current book fits in the latter category, and the age group it’s intended for is the same age that the Harry Potter books are geared for. I have no doubt, however, that Kristen is mature enough to enjoy the rest of the series (there are 30 books as of last count).
I had told her about the main characters of the books; some are written about Rincewind, the wizard who knows no spells, has the word “WIZZARD” embroidered across his pointy hat and has a talent for running away from danger. Some are written about the witches, of which mostly include Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. And still, some are written about characters that only appear once or are sporadically mentioned throughout the entire series. My favorite books in the series are written about the personification of Death and his granddaughter, Susan Sto Helit (that’s a very, er, complicated story that I’m not about to explain). But, and this is besides Terry’s Wee Free Men books as of late, Mr Pratchett seems to favor writing about The Watch which is the police force of the city that seems to be mentioned in every Discworld novel, Ankh Morpork.
That introduction, which is very brief as I could go on and on and on about the characters and the descriptiveness and the wonderful, wonderful comfort the series brings to me, was to mention the fact that in The Watch there are very many humans and creatures of the biped variety, and among them is a woman, Angua, who is Captain Carrot’s girlfriend, who just happens to be a werewolf. Kristen was fascinated by this fact and wanted to read about her, and in my excitement for the latest Discworld release may have misled her into believing that Angua was in Wintersmith…my apologies to my beautiful daughter who now shares my love of all things Discworld.
Yesterday, I got an idea for the TILAH Myspace page. When you are added to another person’s friends list, you are allowed access to their comments field, and usually people (I can only assume they’re people as cats aren’t all that adept with the typing) use this area to thank the page owner for adding them to their friends list. I got a comment from another webcomic author, who does a very funny strip called Taking the Bi-Pass, in the form of a comic or panel of a comic. So I thought, what better way to introduce people to the artwork and humor that TILAH will incorporate. So I took a couple of hours to do this:
That’s all of us behind glass, and usually I include the message “Thank you for inviting us into your space!” above the image. I’m thinking I need to add another nipple on Dan, there. What is it with my nipple fascination lately? Speaking of which, Cry Baby Mason took second place in the CD challenge over at the animation forum.
