It’s late and I have to go to bed, but two quick points about how good my day was:
The Toronto International Film Festival started today, and I saw a very good movie. I’ll be blogging about all the films I see (8 scheduled for the next week), but I just want to say how much I love the festival: Great films, you get to see directors and stars, who usually look just like regular people, and audiences that are there because they love film.
I got my copy of Lost Girls today. There will, I’m sure, be an extensive post about it eventually (it’ll be hard to set aside time to read it this weekend), but I’m just happy to have a copy of the first printing: Distribution is somewhat limited in Canada, with Diamond Distribution not carrying it at all (presumably due to content and possible legal problems), and the first print run sold out across the U.S. in a couple of days, with a second printing scheduled for October and a third for December. But thanks to the greatest comic store on Earth, I’ve got mine. I’ve only had time for a brief perusal so far, but it looks very, very nice, both as an artistic work and as a wonderful looking book. I took my time unwrapping it from its plastic, partly for fear of damaging it, and partly out of the fear of being disappointed. The book is in A-OK condition, and I don’t think I’m going to be disappointed.
Or, put another way: Yes, I just paid $90 for a three-volume set of comic book porn, and I’m damned happy about it.