I went to have lunch at Lake Tiak-O'Khata yesterday and too my surprise they had Blackened Chicken pasta which I really enjoy.... OH, and an art show in the Lobby.  My Train of thought is a Romba of thought sometimes.  It bumps into something and zoom off to another thought.  What was I telling you about puppets? Oh, the art show at the Lake.  MISSISSIPPI ART COLONY Traveling Art Show is at the Lake thru October so go check it out and get you some culture.  

Don't complain that I didn't get a photo of every piece.  Yall need to get off your hineys and go take a gander for yourselves.  Get out and explore a little.  If you eat at the Lake regular don't just walk past the exhibit , walk thru it and look at some art.  Woo.  Yall have a Bubbatastic day now. 

It's October .... go watch you some werewolf movies.  Howl is a werewolf movie involving a train and Blood Moon is a werewolf western.  Check them out, fun time will be had by all.

While I was in Tupelo the other day, I went to the mall.  They still have a nice mall.  I popped into the book store there.... main reason I went to the mall.  I was in the book store in meridian just a couple of weeks ago.  I've realized that I no longer get the dopamine effect from going into a big book store anymore.  It's a combination of things really.  I read so much online now that I don't "have" to have a physical copy of a book in my hand which could only be accomplished by going to a book store.  Also the state of comics over the years because of how the main two industries have pulled them down.  I quit buying regular comics in the mid 90's because I got tired of the way they were more worried in making alternate covers to sub par stories trying to get every cent you had.  I went the more independent route.  

This is the YOUNG ADULT section.  Which is cool they have this much in YOUNG ADULT.  I remember many years ago this was the graphic novel section.  Would you like to see the graphic novel section now?

These four shelves is the GRAPHIC NOVELS section.  By the way , graphic novels are very thick comic books.  Sometimes six or seven issues collected in what is sometimes called  a trade. Now back to our regularly scheduled program.  Only four sections... but wait... two of those sections are MANGA.  Not the comics I'm talking about.  Directly behind this is a U shaped section of shelves that are nothing but MANGA.  So even the reduced GRAPHIC NOVELS section has been reduced.  I blame Marvel and DC for this.  They've let there standards go in my opinion on the stories they put out.  Not that they don't have some good ones now and then, just not regularly enough.  If you're wondering if I'm right.... look at the amount of space they're given in a big chain book store.  MANGA sells , so it gets the space.  The problem with independent titles you have to hunt for them, they're usually not found in places like this.  You have to go online and find them or follow them on their social media and such.  Which my brain realizes when I walk in that there probably won't be anything I want to buy when I walk in at the one section I go to the most.  I still look cause sometimes they surprise me.  

I will find regular books that look interesting , but , I will make note of them and look them up on my library app and check on them that way.  That's also where I read what few mainstream comics that I hear are good.  Also , I've heard that DC's best selling comics ... are reprints of older stories.  What's that tell ya. Their reprints are apparently selling better than their new titles.  My neighbor will buy collected old stories a lot thru the mail.  

One thing hurting the comics industry is how far you have to travel to find comics.  Usually it's a major book store chain or a specialty comic book shop.  The closest comic book shop is an hour away three counties away.  The closest "good" comic book shop is two hours away in the opposite direction.  The best comic book shop is four hours away on the coast.  I'm partial to that one.  These are my opinions so you may differ on this.  There is a book store on campus in Starkville that you can get a selection of graphic novels at.  I will check it out from time to time.  I actually found one worth buying put out by Marvel.  Reading it now.  A horror anthology called WEREWOLF BY NIGHT.  

I"m reading this one and actually enjoying it.  They can make a good comic , they just need to do it more often.  

When I was a kid you could by comics off the shelf and racks in convenience stores an grocery stores.  In my small town you had three or four places to find them.  Now you have to drive for hours to specifically find them and they wonder why their market is shrinking.  That's why I put my comics on the web.  That's where they can "stumble" upon comics easier now.  But you still have to muddle thru everything to find the good stuff.  I'll start blogging about the ones I read so yall can find some good comics to read.  

Yall can support me on my PATREON page and read my comics their and help keep me making comics and blogging and being a crumungen.  Yall go ride around and find some stuff... or read my blogs and feel like you did. Have a Bubbatastic day I tells ya.
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I got me some fettuccini alfredo with meatballs and it was fine.  This picture is before I stirred it all up in the alfredo sauce real good. 

Before I wound up in Tupelo I was north of Tupelo on the Natchez Trace at Pharr Mounds.  There's a rest stop with a pavilion there.  If I'd thought of it, I would have taken the trace all the way up there and come home on 45.  I had to go thru Starkville for some stuff on the way home.  

Yall get out and wander around a bit and have a Bubbatastic Day I tells ya. 

Be sure to support me on my PATREON page to keep me blogging and making comics.

Sometimes you and your buds just need to get out and ramble for no good reason than just rambling.  We did that Saturday and went to Starkville, MS and just puttered around town.  Checking out different places and businesses with no particular agenda.  Just get on the road and get lost for a bit.  We went by the bookstore on campus.  I remember when the books took up the whole store instead of just mainly on the top floor.  I do like the escalator... I don't know how many people appreciate me singing "Meet George Jetson" as I ride up it.  After that we stopped by the art gallery on Main Street just past the Cotton District before you get onto campus.  Click HERE to find out more about their galleries ... we just dropped into the one that day.  

We popped into Scooter's Records... same street ... cause what's a trip to Starkville without popping into Scooter's.  I wasn't planning on buying any vinyl that day which means I left with an Iron Butterfly one.  It had In Da Gadda Deveda on it so I had to get it.  Shane got something too.  

Ric had us stop by Strange Brew on the Ice Cream side.  That side is called the Churn and Spoon.  They make a milk shake right I tells ya what.  Drop by and check it out.  I even stopped by passing thru the next day. 

Earlier before that we stopped at the Asian Market and had lunch.  Even had an impromptu writer's group meet up while we were there.  I loves me some Asian Market.  Try the dumplings in spicy sauce. 

Get out and wander around a bit.  See some things.  Or just follow my blogs and see them from your computer.

​Yall have a Bubbatastic day now.  
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I love it when I finds some mural art around a town.  

This was some fine eating I tells ya what.  I'm gonna have to go there again when I'm really hungry and try not to hurt myself. 

Them were some fancy doors.  Very cool. 

Also go check out the humor shorts GHOST STORIES that my buddy Landon and myself are doing.

​    WOO HOO!  Active blogging article page up on the site.  Like I didn't already spread myself thin already.  GO LOCAL SPORTS TEAM!
      I will be talking about arts in general .... comics ... galleries .... shows.... just whatever strikes my fancy at any given time until I'm distracted by a shiny object.
      
      The RED HILLS ARTS ASSOCIATION ( Louisville, MS ) will be meeting at the Market Cafe on Main Street of Louisville, MS at 11:30 on March 13 ( a Wednesday ) to discuss the art show for the Red Hills Festival.  The art competition is always up for the two weeks preceding the Red Hills Festival in Louisville, MS.  You do have to be a member of the RHAA to enter but that is only $20 a year.  We will also be talking about planning a painting workshop with a possibility of it happening in April.  If you're a local artist in the Winston County or surrounding area you should venture out and check us out.