A Hawaiian storm just blew into Northern California, hopefully finally starting the rainy season here. At the moment it's just drizzling, but it does frequently rise to sheets of water off the edge of the roof.

Page 217 of Molly Blue just got inked last night. I alternate between printing the pencils in cyan or magenta to stretch the color ink cartridge as far as possible, 217 was in magenta. After I scan the inked pencils, I use photoshop's "hue/saturation" to make the cyan or magenta go to white.

I finished watching the first season of Genshikan, a relatively new anime about a college club devoted to collectors of anime, manga, games, and models, that';s really quite hilarious.

Now I'm watching Nadia, Secret of Blue Water, an old anime show from 1989/1990. So far, episode 5, it's very like either a Disney work or an early Hideo Miyasaki film. Nadia herself, with her brown skin and blue eyes, and tough but basically sweet disposition, reminds me a lot of Avatar's Katara. Captain Nemo himself prefigures later anime angsty ship captains like Last Exile's Alex Rowe, or Glass Fleet's Kleo. So far he hasn't said much, and his face is deeply shadowed by his captain's hat, but he's obviously angsty. It's his body language or something.

Meanwhile John Fogerty randomly decided to do another bluegrass album. Half the songs sound like the sort of love and cheating stuff you'd expect from any kind of country stuff, but the other half is protest songs and oldies from the fifties, as well as one new Creedence-type song about global warming and hurricanes. My favorite is Haunted House:

Still I made up my mind to stay.
Nothin' was gonna drive me away.
Then I saw something that give me the creeps,
had one big eye and two big feet.

Yeah, that song, with its saxophones replaced by fiddles and banjoes. I never could quite understand all the words in the original, didn't get that the guy sitting on the stove in the second verse was supposed to be a devil, never understood that the singer was holding a hunk of raw meat because he was cooking dinner. Say yes I'll be here when the morning comes.