“Andre the Giant’s story makes me sad, and it seems like everyone else is all upset about one thing or another right now. I’m not sure what, exactly. Nobody is tweeting about it or posting a bunch of text in Instagram stories that I try to read in the allotted 30 seconds. Sure, you can tap and pause it, but that makes it less like watching TV, and I like watching TV.
Guys, maybe Instagram isn’t a good medium for text.
Anyway, I decided to jump on the sadwagon and read another comic biography of Andre. This one’s good. The Box Brown one is also really good. I think most people don’t need to read both, they cover a lot of the same territory. It’s sort of like when two asteroid movies came out the same year. In fact, Box Brown’s book came out mid-2014, this one in 2015, so in all likelihood they were being made at the same time.
Why did I read both? Because I got a new tablet computing device that’s capable of reading comics from the library. Whoa. Damn right, whoa.
Now, before you get all excited, it’s a cheapie. It was like $100. Which maybe isn’t cheap for some people. Tell you what, if you’re reading this on a gizmo that retailed for less than $100, I will personally apologize. Comment below.
Most of why I wanted this tablet was to read comics. Also partially to watch a Japanese television show that I’ve tried really hard to buy legitimately, but only found a few places, and I can’t tell if there are English subtitles because I can’t read the Japanese item description. It’s possible to torrent this show, but I don’t know how to do that, nor do I know how to do that without getting my internet taken away. Which might be kind of awesome at this point because I wouldn’t be able to work, but less awesome because while I wasn’t working I couldn’t watch Project Runway seasons from 10 years ago.
Anyway, if someone can torrent this for me and give them to me on cd-rom, it would be much appreciated, but also probably illegal, so don’t do it, and I’m definitely not asking people for that on a public forum here. Just saying that I would appreciate that sacrifice. “