And we can climb through time tomorrow

[austin_dern]

I like to think my life isn't significantly stranger than anyone else's, which is why I was annoyed to find a dragon on the third floor when I went out for a can of Milo. That it was a dragon is a guess on my part. Assembled was an odd bending tube that looked like a partly unravelled paperclip, maybe a foot and a half wide and about five feet tall, covered in papier maché. So it was more a tube of Straits Times fragments, with a nice tail curl. Also by the side, drying out, were cardboard rectangles painted red, I suppose so the dragon could polarize its hull plating.

I believe the purpose -- there was no one around to ask -- is to make a parade float. The university has a lot of ``field day'' type events, with loud noises and parades and such, so I'm guessing one is forthcoming.

While I never read many Scrooge McDuck comics, one that lodged in my mind had the gang in need of papier maché and so they went to Madagascar for it. As a child I believed Madagascar was just a huge place full of papier maché mines. Deep down I still do, but I've learned it also has lemurs, who presumably run the mines.

Trivia: The Little Armenian calendar counts from the Julian date 11 August 1084. Source: Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History, E.G. Richards.

Currently Reading: Mythmaster, Leo P Kelley. This is a pretty odd goofy book; the titular character is a space pirate who goes around stealing embryos from unsuspecting tourists, then lives mawkish lessons about loneliness and true love. It's too mushy for space opera, and too pulpy for sentimental drama.

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Free Comics Day had a scrooge mcduck cartoon, which had him arguing with a scottish duck about who was ritcher, ending up with them comparing whose ball of string was larger by unrolling it across the african savannah.

I think the old one I read as a kid had him building a giant mecha for the purpose of... gah, doing something stupid. It's been too long.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot about Free Comic Book Day. Too bad ... there are a few comic book stores on the U.S. model here, cramped shops with every window covered in faded posters and angry cashiers glaring at you as you enter; I imagine some of them might have participated.

I've come to regret not reading more Carl Barks stuff; when I've encountered it there's been a regular stream of odd, surreal and generally amusing ideas in it. I definitely would've liked more when I was growing up.

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

I would have liked to see a dragon float. (Shut up, you know what I mean.) I love dragons (especially Eastern dragons) and I like parade floats!

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know, and I'll introduce you to the balloon dragons when we have the chance.

Unfortunately this was a very early stage in the parade float. I'll certainly go back and check over the next couple weeks to see what shape it's in, and take my camera along, but I don't know when the presumed parade will be. Actually, I should have taken more pictures back at Chinese New Year, when you couldn't see the 7-Elevens for all the Chinese Dragons parading down the street, if you can imagine.