When reality imitates fiction, it shows in my bank account

When reality imitates fiction, it shows in my bank account

So the feedback loop that my life maintains with the fiction I enjoy is as strong as ever. Immediately after I watched The Passenger the other day--a film about coincidence and identity theft, among other things--I checked my online bank statement and discovered that, coincidentally, someone had stolen my identity. Well, they hadn't fully stolen my identity. What an Usaru Fadii had done, however, was counterfeit checks using my account number. Luckily my bank scans in the physical checks themselves so I could see first-hand my routing and account number faithfully duplicated on this false check. The person even had the same bank branch address on hers, slightly modified, but there it was: "Melrose & Fairfax Branch".

Needless to say, I was on the phone but quick and, a mere day later, the cost of the check ($86.20 made out to PetCo) was credited back to my account, the old checking account was closed and a new one opened. No harm, no foul. Unfortunately, I'm reliant on what little cash I have in my wallet and my credit card until my new debit card arrives sometime next week (hopefully).

On a lighter note, here are some books I'm trying to get my local library to buy for me...and posterity, I suppose:

A Disease of Language by Alan Moore with artist Eddie Campbell, the team that brought you From Hell

Jew Gangster : A Father's Admonition by one of my favorite comic creators, Joe Kubert

Little Nemo in Slumberland - So Many Splendid Sundays which collects all of the Sunday strips by landmark comic strip illustrator and animator Windsor McCay in a tome so large it has to be seen to be believed

Challengers of the Unknown Archives as created by Jack "pre-King" Kirby

Watching:

Logan's Run

Nacho Libre

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

Reading:

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell

The Waste Land and Other Poems, T. S. Eliot

Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: "There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay", George Herriman, Bill Blackbeard (Editor)

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman, George Perez

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