Alan Moore links

There's a fascinating interview from 1988 with Alan Moore here, and a roundtable discussion with Moore and Gibbons (also from 1988) here. (Please note that both pieces contain huge spoilers for Watchmen.) I'll always be sorry that neither Big Numbers, his collaboration with Bill Sienkeiwicz (which Moore refers to in his interview as "The Mandelbrot Set") nor the planned Minutemen book were completed. (And, since I'm in a Moore frame of mind, you can find annotations to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series (both of them, and also The Black Dossier), as well as Kingdom Come and a few other works (no Watchmen, alas) here. (ETA: There is this, from another site, however.)

goodbye, Inky

Inky, the last of the three cats who lived in this apartment when I moved in, passed away yesterday. Boogie had taken him with her to Belgium; it was clear he was on his way out, and she wanted him with her at the end. He was my favorite of the three; an amiable, lazy beast, resignedly patient to kittens' attacks and being ousted from my favorite chair. I remember how he'd dash out the kitchen door whenever I opened it in the middle of the night, and how I joked that he was hoping he'd wind up in Narnia; perhaps he finally has.

Rest in peace, Commodore.

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elionwyr asks a question I think I'll repeat: "what is the first song you remember learning? Or the first pop song you can recall recognizing/enjoying?"

For my part, the first song I remember enjoying was "Day By Day" from Godspell; the first song I actually remember being taught was from Sunday school:

J-O-Y, J-O-Y, surely that must mean

Jesus first, and yourself last,

and others in between.