Today's Meme: Senses

Filched with feeling from ailsaek:
Choose your own answers before looking at anyone else's...

1. What color is fear?
2. What sound does affection make?
3. What texture does Autumn have?
4. What shape does a conversation make?
5. What fabric is a kitten made of?
6. What noise is made by curiosity?
7. What is the smell of knowledge?
8. How do you punctuate life?
9. What does death taste like?

( My answers. )

A new holiday I can't believe I forgot

With much love and thanks to cadhla for the reminder: Today, 25 September, is National Comic Book Day (not to be confused with Free Comic Book Day, which is in May). I still, as Harlan Ellison so eloquently put it, righteously love comic books, even decades out of adolescence...and will until my dying day. Of course, being a person who draws and designs for a living, my interest is at least as much professional as recreational; many is the hour I have spent drooling over the art of a book drawn by such as Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons or George Perez and seethed with envy at the same time. I even drew my own self-pubbed comic book in grade school, to the amusement of many teachers and fellow students; something about a billionaire industrialist who moonlighted as a detective (without any psychoses or scary bat costume).

For all the great writers, artists, colorists, letterers, editors and many, many others who put the four-color fantasies we love onto store shelves and in our mailboxes, raise a glass today. And raise another one to the medium itself and its improvement in maturity into sophisticated storytelling sold in respectable bookstores, not just feckless little "funny books" anymore.

What's on your tops-of-all-time list? Mine includes Crisis on Infinite Earths, Watchmen, Kingdom Come, the Dave Cockrum run of Legion of Super-Heroes in the 1970s and Neal Adams' and Denny O'Neil's Batman run from the same period.

Voter ID Smackdown with the Supremes!

Voter ID requirement to be judged by US Supreme Court
Courtesy of Reuters. This has implications where I live as Georgia is one of the states with photo-ID requirements passed into law (and recently upheld by a lower federal court here). Apparently Indiana wasn't so lucky; justices there saw it for what it is, i.e., much less about insuring voting integrity than about curbing the liberal/Democrat vote, as evidenced by, among other things, the fact that only Republicans are pushing it.