I’m feeling some side effects from the J&J vaccine. I went to bed at midnight and didn’t get up until 10. In the middle of the night I woke up shivering, and today I have that vague “I must be coming down down with something” feeling. It’s Sleepytime tea time, then back to bed for me.
Well, it’s done. I’ve received the “one and done” dose of the J&J vaccine. I hope this unexpected side effect doesn’t last more than four hours! 😉
I have been informed that my 2020 taxes are done. Having prepared my own returns since I was 16, I am for the first time ever using an accounting firm for my personal taxes.
The time seemed right to let someone else prepare my returns, after a good experience with a CPA in Arizona, who handled the Trust taxes after my father died. Combined with some bad experiences with Intuit, the parent of TurboTax.
Today I will be getting a shot in the arm, by invitation of Massachusetts General Hospital. AFAIK it will be the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Another collection of doodles that were used for the blog’s logo images.
Two years ago, at a comic con in downtown Albany, I had a lengthy and very enjoyable conversation with comic book writer Denny O’Neil. Joe Sinnott was also at the show, and I’m sad to say they died within a couple weeks of each other last year.
Almost 50 years ago, Alan Light, founder of The Buyer’s Guide of Comics Fandom, published this audio interview with Denny. At the time, O’Neil was white-hot as the writer of the highly praised Green Lantern/Green Arrow comic book series, and the equally praised post-TV show reboot of Batman. Both books were illustrated by Neal Adams.
In 1982 I bought a British import 12-inch 45 reissue of the Beatles’ first Parlophone single, “Love Me Do.” Side 1 has the take with Andy White on drums. It was mastered from the original tape, and to me it sounds fab and gear.
Side 2 is the take with Ringo on drums, and it was mastered by necessity from a 1962 Parlophone 45. Compared to the first side it sounds like you’re playing it on speakers while wearing headphones that aren’t plugged in. It’s all explained here, in exhaustively delightful detail. Or is it delightfully exhaustive detail?
