kathygnome | Tired & Fun Home

I'm tired today. Maybe it's the weather. But I have had the hardest time getting up the last couple of days and I feel like I'm about to nod off.

We're going to see the Betty Page movie tonight, before it leaves town. We were planning to go to the Dyke march tomorrow, but now I'm starting to waffle. I'm exhausted and don't really want to stand exhausted in the rain. Ditto for Pride on Saturday. I'm not feeling particularly Pridey. I'm feeling more just sleepy.

I finished Allison Bechdel's graphic novel memoire Fun Home last night. It was simply incredible. I like Dykes to Watch Out For a great deal. It's funny and even when I was a male, it represented our lives a lot more accurately than a straight comic would have. But this is something different. It's literature. It's brilliant. It concerns the author's relationship with her father, intertwining life experiences, with literary themes and pure speculation about what drove him. It's just simply brilliant. One of the few graphic novels that honestly live up to their name. It's on the level of a Maus.

The book itself is also a work of art as an object. One of the nicest presentations I have seen. (And I'm generally a mass market paperback please type.)