A Minor Setback

Well, I've got some bad news and I've got some good news. First let's start with the bad: my Macbook adapter crapped out on me over the weekend. I called Applecare as soon as I was sure that it hadn't anything to do with the outlets in my apartment, and once they verified that it wasn't an issue with the battery in my laptop, they mailed me a new one. The replacement should arrive by the end of the week, I hope, but until then I'm without a constant supply of power to my Macbook, so these posts are going to be a little more sporadic than I'd like. Mostly I'm just upset because I really wanted to download an emulator this weekend and start playing the recently fan-translated rom of Mother 3, originally released only in Japan for the Gameboy Advance.

On the brighter side of things, I'm currently assisting with writing some scripts for a local television production company, which is a great opportunity that I'm happy to take advantage of, and it's for a show that I'm personally pretty excited about. The show is called InJustice, and it's a true crime series unlike any I've seen before: heavily stylized and very modern.

Over the weekend I read a graphic novel published by Drawn & Quarterly called Dogs And Water, which was written and illustrated by Anders Nilsen. I did some research and found that Dogs And Water won the prestigious Ignatz award in 2005, and with good reason: the book is a haunting examination of human isolation, dreams, and loneliness, and the book's austere, minimalist artwork is hauntingly beautiful. Despite it's relatively short length, and spartan aesthetic, it really stuck with me. I look forward to discussing it in greater detail later on this week. In the meantime, in case you're interested, you can sample some of Anders Nilsen's artwork by checking out his blog, The Monologuist.