Diary of an up and coming sociopath

I’ve been lacking updates recently because instead of spending every evening on the PC, I’ve been devouring pop culture, by which I mean comics. In the past week alone, I’ve read Scott Pilgrim’s 1 and 2, East Coast Rising, and Genshiken Volume 6. All of them were utterly brilliant, which has left me a gibbering wreck. It’s virtually impossible to choose what’s the best, but the one with widest appeal is definitely Scott Pilgrim. I don’t care who you are, if you’re reading this you’re nerdy enough to love it. Get through Volume 1, and I can promise that Volume 2 will have a genuine Monkey Island reference.

Yesterday after work, Josh was in Central London so Nikki came to meet us all from work and we went around various shops, and stumbled blissfully upon Genshiken Volume #6, released a full 2 weeks early, which will no doubt please Damo what he comes to visit this weekend. It may well be my favourite volume so far, but then I think 5 was when I read that. Unfortunately, it ends with volume 10 so it’s a bittersweet purchase, as it puts me convincingly past the halfway point. Another year, and I’ll be completing the collection and lamenting the passing of another great series. Azumanga only managed 4 volumes, though, so I’m well aware that it could be much worse.

Besides reading comics, I’ve also been watching the new series of The F Word with Nikki. I’m not sure why I like it when I usually hate cooking shows, but I think it’s the Magazine format of it that allows for a variety of sections without getting too tabloid, focussing on the latest idiots he’s drafted in and how badly they’re fucking up. Though I could do without less of Janet Street-Porter.