L. Marcus

And is without footnotes. Footnotes are essential.

Japanese Airforce Pilot and her Manga Portrait decal.
 

I remembered a dream I had a month ago.  Basically I seemed to have been put in the classic Planet of the Apes essentially as Charlton Heston (albeit quicker on my feet in the thinking dept, and with thankfully more clothes).  But, after escaping instead of finding those bomb-worshipping freaky mutants I found.........
 
 
 
.........in suspended animation, Khan Noonien Singh. 

Most common antibiotic for me has been Augmentin, but I haven't had any for four years now. (apparently, past conscious)

The five year old can now ride without training wheels.

Curiosity spotted from space.
 
BOSS scales Universe to within 1% accuracy.
 
New model suggests super-Earths more Earth-like.

Mom, two brothers, and me walking to the car after sister's birthday celebration. Fiercely slippery, with melted water on ice. Mom grabs oldest brother's arm to steady herself.
 
"That's nice," says I, "when you fall, he'll have something soft to land on."
 
Mom laughs and punches my shoulder.
 
"Oh mom," says younger brother, "you completely missed his head."

I've never seen a cartoon strip on NOAO's (National Optical Astronomical Observatories) home page before, but here it is.

Mom, two brothers, and me walking to the car after sister's birthday celebration. Fiercely slippery, with melted water on ice. Mom grabs oldest brother's arm to steady herself.
 
"That's nice," says I, "when you fall, he'll have something soft to land on."
 
Mom laughs and punches my shoulder.
 
"Oh mom," says younger brother, "you completely missed his head."

I am ogre oh Physics 106.

It is, when you get past the elephants.

*grins bastardly*

New strip up.
 
 
 

Chorizo and potato salad, nummy.

Time for a quick "year in review" update.
 
I just finished the Etruscan Mythology chapter (a short one at only a little over 5,000 words) and have now begun the major task of the Hindu Mythology chapter. That'll keep me busy for quite some time.
 
Over the past year I've been able to devote a lot more time to Mythic Hero (though never as much as I'd like!), and in that time I added 162,000 words to the manuscript. That nearly doubled it from its length as of 01/01/2013. Currently it stands at approximately 338,000 words, with a long way yet to go. Unless I'm sadly mistaken I bet Hindu Mythology will add at least 40,000 words to the total. That will leave only one major mythology to go -- Celtic, which is so large I'm planning to split it into four chapters -- and about 20 smaller mythologies to research and write up. (Some of the latter may not support a whole chapter, in which case they'll get folded into another chapter or sent down to the "Miscellaneous" catch-all chapter at the end.)
 
So there's still a long way to go. I've been at this over two years so far, and it could easily be another two years. But now that I'm devoting more than just spare time to it (much to the chagrin of my bank account ), I'm making enough progress to stave off any despair I might otherwise feel when I look at the remaining mountain of work. I hope those of you who've been waiting patiently for the book won't mind continuing to wait so I can get MH Just Right. Eventually I'm going to have something pretty awesome to show you.
 
If anyone has any questions, comments, suggestions, or requests, as always feel free to post 'em.

Fire in da skai!
 
Darnt darnt darnt!

After the divorce, my mother took me to see "Basic Instinct" when I was in high school, claiming it was a "mother-daughter bonding moment"...
 
...yeah, NO.

I have displayed mastery in the use of the words baka and aho.