Tax day was yesterday. Ugh. That didn’t go well. To make up for it, we went out for tasty, tasty fish tacos and beer at Lobo, my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant 20 feet from the apartment. Also, I used it as an excuse to skip doing any drawing last night, guilt free.

Instead, I watched American Idol and grumbled about how I don’t think we (meaning me and my wife) should have to pay taxes; since all the money ever gets used for is war and things I don’t like much anyway. If the government were to spend all the money fixing collapsing ice-shelves in Antarctica, then I’d be happier to pay my share.

I remembered this morning that FREDDIE & ME was supposed to be solicited in the April PREVIEWS, so after lunch I nipped over to Cosmic Comics and checked it out.

And yes, it's in there, on page 232, with a nice little "Spotlight On:" box around it, and CERTIFIED COOL. Awesome!



I also bought the new LOVE & ROCKETS collection, and GANGES #2 by Kevin Huizenga. I haven't read the L&R book yet, but I read most of Ganges on the subway ride home, and finished it once I got here. It was really good.



In the comic Glenn Ganges is working at a dot com start-up in the years 1999-2000. It brought a lot of memories rushing back, and kind of a bad feeling. I dunno, it seemed fun when I was there, but now when I think back on that feeling of getting money for nothing that I had at the time, it kind of makes me feel a sense of dread. I'm not 100% sure why.

My best guesses are that it was a combination of my personal feelings of being unqualified for my job, and the general reckless attitude of the time that permeated at least two of the dot com offices I worked in before 9/11: the company tossing money around to buy toys for the employees and throwing parties all the time; everyone getting expensive thousand-dollar Herman Miller chairs; spending way more than necessary to get prime office space with a view of Central Park. I thought it was so awesome when it was happening, but now not so much.