Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | by nathan

Meta Meta Blah Blah Blah

Ugh. I hate meta-posts, and yet, unfortunately, there’s almost no way around them. They’re like announcements in church, and in that spirit, I’ll try to keep it short and to the point.

I’ve been reading a lot lately. Ever since the summer started I’ve been devouring books almost faster than is possible to track, and in the midst of that I’ve found myself completely bereft of any desire to write the long-ish posts about each individual book I read. Instead, I’ve taken to penning a quick paragraph on the 2008 Books page along with the links to each book’s page on Amazon. In addition I try to keep my eyes forward, so to speak, as to the next few books I’m planning to read, and so if you see anything there that you’d like to read along with me, just let me know. The list may vary a bit as we go forward, especially as I’ve been reading a lot of graphic novels lately, mostly from the Joss Whedon oeuvre, and so if you have any recommendations I’d love to hear them. I usually read them in about an hour or two, but they’ve all been wondrously compelling - if rather easily digestible - stories. My next entry, though it’s not on the list, will be Joss’ comic-book sequel to Serenity.

In other blog notes, I must apologize for having gone so many weeks without any news or photos of Sam. It’s not that I’ve had a lack of news - if anything, the opposite is true and the dog’s been so blog-worth lately I’ve had trouble choosing what to write about. Problem is that the last few Fridays have been so jam-packed with activity, what with the beginning of a new school year, my ten-year reunion, and trying to squeeze in a decent night’s sleep where I can. I promise Sam will be back in force this Friday and through the fall; like election coverage, you cannot escape.

That concludes this meta-announcement-blogging-about-blogging-entry; to reward you for indulging me like this, here’s a rendering of what my yearbook picture likely would’ve looked like if I’d graduated high school in 1978 instead of 1998:

Oh, and there’s plenty more where that came from.