High, 1 am, ordering cheap pizza, and being ignored

Slowly waking up.

Very fair to correct me, even if comic strips, Bill's era is gone too. And you're right, doesn't reflect the actual nature of the comics as a medium. I guess it's hard for me to see art and writing and lettering as so distinct, as a total experience, and writers shouldn't be the sole awarded creator

It would only really apply in a situation where it's like... a Bill Watterson type scenario, where he scripts, draws, inks, colours, and letters the whole thing, but a 22 page comic is not that scenario and it never respects the collaborative nature of the medium

I was about to say I'm wrapping up an 1,200 page biography, but I'm only on page 490

Buuuuuut if anyone is interested in politics, corruption, and city planning, Robert Caro's masterpiece The Power Broker is an amazingly complex, diligently researched book

My next read is gonna be Bloom County lol

Bone starting like a standard Sunday comic (not a bad thing) and ending as a meditation on home and community, it's just a magical comic.

Im genuinely sad I can't experience Bone for the first time again

@paulkaminski.bsky.social I was catching up on my comics and caught up to Supergirl last week, and then caught that interview from a month ago about how Conner wouldn't be doing much in Reign of the Superboys. I'm a little sad, truthfully; will we be getting more of him somewhere else in the future?

Back on here.

I'm sure I have stuff to say about comics but I'm mostly reading like... Peanuts and books like In Cold Blood

Her delegated authority stems from Council, and they are looking at a policy that may do more harm to the corporation. That's exactly what a Council should do, review and rescind poor policymaking

Leiper's motion is acceptable too. Council can remove this specific item from the City Manager's delegated authority because they're unsatisfied with her decision, as any nonprofit board, council or band council can do. It's part of their jobs

Councillor Bradley had a motion last week for more evidence.

So, yeah, I don't care about some abstracted governance arguments or employee/employer relationships nonsense. I've sat on enough boards, worked in nonprofit, private, public sector and Crown Corporations, I can't tell what your aim is, but it's not entirely good faith

retention or could cause harm, the board, Council, band council can review a policy. RTO has demonstrably caused attrition in businesses and govt implementing it, and if Leiper and others are concerned with retention (and have heard from their communities) then they're doing their due diligence

If the City Manager made a poor argument to Council on a matter of policy, Council is well within their rights to review and even rescind the decision. It's normal for a lot of governance structures, like nonprofits, that if an ED or City Manager make decisions that negatively impact employee -

Management has failed to justify their decision to Council, and thus the decision is being evaluated. The arguments I presented are easily searched and bolstered by fact. What's your argument beyond "but but but management said so"?

The bulk of the research tells us that RTO creates a greater schism and mistrust of leadership, and poor workplace culture, whereas hybrid arrangements are seen with significantly better eyes from employees.

If you want to see City services worsen, push employees in this direction

The reality is that RTO mandates cost people between 5 to 10% of their wages altogether in commutes, food and time. It's essentially a tax on people, and more challenging for families who's childcare and/or afterschool arrangements are not set.

I say this as a City employee really, deeply crestfallen at the surprise shift from 2 days in office to 5 days, I'm very thankful for the councilors I've reached out to on my personal time advocating for us!

A RTO would be a pay cut for me, either buying/leasing a car or increased transit use

Not gonna lie, this is the page that made me stop and walk away from the book

My reasoning is that I don't think Waid's writing for Kon or Kenan was exceptionally strong or nuanced, and so this page just felt very uncharitable to me, honestly

Gonna be honest, I wasn't really impressed by Maines' writing of Jon at all, and very impressed with Dreamer, so I'm basically at a net zero here. Until shown otherwise, this is a book I think could be great or bad, but not a book I want to buy

Anyway, DC call Yang and have him write Kenan again

I'm gay because my spotify wrapped is topped by Charli XCX and I'm a hipster because I've listened to over 9000 hours of podcasts

You dumb him down and now you've got him as the lazy Superman lesson of the day?

@markwaid.bsky.social Dude... do you even like Conner? At some point you're writing him as your punching bag...

I have area rugs and furniture and no one to talk about it with

Who do I tell that I learned how to make stuffed grape leaves?!

I need a discord full of only 30 somethings where they share the most mundane things about their lives, like Friday I made a really good lasagna, and today I put up my Christmas tree

Sometimes I think the Simpsons perfected the sight gag

America, I hate when someone from your country lists temperatures, they don't make sense

Fix your shit, starting with imperial measurements

The further I get into my Calvin and Hobbes re-read, the further I want to revisit Peanuts, Bloom County, Krazy Kat and Pogo, so many wonderful books with wonderful art

I don't often talk about Watterson as a comics creator because the ground is reasonably well trodden - the way his characters feel so physical and visceral under his hands, the completeness of his vision and the dynamic art that just pulls you in - but there's so much to be won looking at his art