February 17, 2026

Hourly Comics Day 2026

Hourly Comics Day 2026 On A Sunday - Hold on to your butts! 7:00-9:00 Doze on and off. The lack of sun is not conducive to getting up, but today is a day of television. Early morning phone chck: everyone is putting out stuff I want to buy, but I'm broke and shipping from the US is so expensive. (Chen Chen + Sam Herschel Wein chapbook OMG). Also, Alex and Anthony's Oscar-Watching app has an update. I have seen one Best Pic (Sinners!) Pencil hourlies in bed with "Genesis" by Deftones playing in my head. Put on water to boil but didn't put in the egg. ADHD points: 1


9:45 Heated Rivalry finally dropped in Germany!! Let's fucking gooooooo. But first, try to get English audio on The Pitt to work for 20 minutes. 10:10 have a mild existential crisis as a result. Silversun Pickups' "Don't Know Yet" plays on a speaker. 10:30 fuck it, Knight of The Seven Kingdoms with meds and toast with egg and lox. 11:30 Runaway hit Canadian television production time let's gooooooo with chicorée, aka "fake coffee" (i don't drink caffeine anymore!). WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S A WEEKLY DROP. Longest. Winter. Ever.

12:30 Watch episode 4 of Wonder Man easily one of the more interesting MCU shows in awhile. 13:00 wander around in TOTK while fish thaws with the Danke, Gut podcast playing. 13:40 Lunch with Schitt's Creek since "Succession" audio isn't working either. (RIP Catherine O'Hara). 14:30 install Homebrew on my computer so I can read the new issue of A New Session - this is fun, haven't used a terminal in years... Reading The Fall by Jana H.S. in issue 4 - HOLY shit. 15:00 read a couple hourlies before I try to nap, and seethe with envy.

Since going on stimulants, I've been napping less, and today I don't sleep. As I lay under my weighted blanket, darkness seeps from my heart into my thoughts. 16:00 do my stretching routine to the sound of Fever Ray's self-titled. 16:30 Do I want to go outside? No. Take second dose of ADHD meds and pencil hourlies with more fake coffee. 17:00 put up laundry before my legs fall completely asleep - Tatort draws nigh.
  Break out the snacks and draw while watching the making of "Ego Death at A Bachelorette Party". YouTube suggestions remind me of the Deftones show at Max-Schmeling-Halle 2 nights ago. Simply mind-blowing, and I screamed until my voice was raw. Followed up last night by an online hangout with supporters of the Stadio football podcast with instant ramen, the good kind. A lot is so goddamn awful right now, but weekends like this are to be held closely. 18:00 goof off on Kleinanzeigen looking for cassette Walkmen, which cost 200 euros now, what a racket. I get to have a round of decluttering my desk drawer, as a treat: earphones with a cool volume slider that still work, USB-A to jack cable, 5000 USB-A to micro-USB cables. Read some hourlies until it is time to prep for Tatort

19:00 Tatort Saarbrücken ritual: denim on denim, forest green T-shirt (if you know you know), snacks, Tumblr, Spatort bingo, texting with a friend. 20:15 Let's fucking gooooooooo. 21:45 theme music plays: holy jeez that was intense. I got a bingo! Scrolling all the posts I missed on Tumblr. 23:00 time to stop scrolling and get ready for bed, as Kings of Medecine by Placebo plays on a speaker. 23:45 in bed and reading through the stack of poetry on my nightstand (Brontey Purnell, and Andrea Gibson - RIP). G'niiiiite the end

As it turns out I just needed to empty the cache in my browser in order to have the English OV audio back! Reboot the machine, indeed.
 
Also what I was drinking instead of coffee was actually Getreidekaffee, which has no caffeine, not chicorée, which I think has some? 
 
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While you're here, if you live abroad, have you requested your US ballot yet? Or registered to vote at your local French consulate?
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