An Aardvarkian Blog-Stone!
Today I reached a blog milestone: 100,000 visitors (to the TypePad site). Not much to the big boys, of course, but a lot to me... thanks everyone!
The two coolest things I've seen today:
Scholar Google. You just have to be an academic to appreciate this, I guess, but... wow. If you are an academic, and you haven't already used this to look yourself up, you are a better aardvark than I.
Something Fell. If you've been asking yourself "where are the fifteen part, 300 page blow by blow reviews and commentaries on all three hundred issues of Cerebus?", then look no farther. I haven't even read this yet, haven't had time, but I am really looking forward to it. (via MeowwCat/Cerebus, who might or not also be the Cerebus Fangirl, I've never been sure; link is to Part One... just keep on hitting "next" to read all 15 parts, with comments).
There's also Andrew Rilstone's website that has a discussion and close reading of Cerebus #300.It's at http://www.aslan.demon.co.uk
Posted by: Andrew Reeves | November 19, 2004 at 09:44 AM
Scholar Google, which I will now never know how I used to live without, allowed me in a click or two to discover that my undergraduate institution doesn't have a copy of my book.
What to do? (a) keep quiet about this and encourage you to delete this comment; (b) send them a "free" copy; or (c) ask a friend there to put in a library request.
What would an Aardvark do?
Posted by: Rodger | November 19, 2004 at 12:30 PM
Rodger, I'd have to go with (c)... seems the most effective.
On another topic, there's a trackback to this post which reads the famous "Something Fell" line which runs through Cerebus with "fell" as an adjective (evil, ferocious) rather than a verb. Honestly, this had never occurred to me before - wow. How interesting.
Posted by: the aardvark | November 19, 2004 at 12:38 PM
Meowwcat is indeed a Cerebus Fangirl, as much as one girl can have alter-egos.
Posted by: margaret | November 25, 2004 at 08:38 AM