Archive for October, 2006
Holy crap, this is cool in the geekiest of ways: a home-made, fully-transformable Transformers costume!
Thanks for the link, Wendy!
Spotted on the drive home:
A metallic green Honda Element with the vanity plate HULK.
Spotted amongst my junk mail:
A pamphlet from one of those bullshit “moral values” groups, with the following scathing indictment: ‘same sex “marriage” is rooted in selfishness.’ Because, you know, two people in a loving, supportive relationship who want to make the ultimate commitment to each other are “selfish”.
Anyway, this stellar example of Christian love and tolerance also went on to proclaim that being tolerant of gays “can open the door to child pornography.” Nice, huh?
So I used the their e-mail address to sign them up for a bunch of spam.
(Sorry for the delay in getting this posted. Piece of shit Blogger wouldn’t let me publish for whatever reason. What a craptacular piece of software…)
Ok, last week’s page was easy. I have a feeling this one is as well…
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(previous weeks: 9/12/2005, 9/19/2005, 9/26/2005, 10/3/2005, 10/10/2005, 10/17/2005, 10/24/2005, 10/31/2005, 11/1/2005, 11/2/2005, 11/3/2005, 11/4/2005, 11/5/2005, 11/6/2005, 11/7/2005, 11/14/2005, 11/21/2005, 11/28/2005, 12/5/2005, 12/12/2005, 12/19/2005, 12/26/2005, 1/2/2006, 1/9/2006, 1/16/2006, 1/23/2006, 1/30/2006, 2/06/2006, 2/13/2006, 2/20/2006, 2/27/2006, 3/6/2006, 3/13/2006, 3/20/2006, 3/27/2006, 4/3/2006, 4/4/2006, 4/5/2006, 4/6/2006, 4/7/2006, 4/8/2006, 4/9/2006, 4/10/2006, 4/17/2006, 4/23/2006, 5/1/2006, 5/8/2006, 5/15/2006, 5/22/2006, 5/29/2006, 6/5/2006, 6/12/2006, 6/19/2006, 6/26/2006, 7/3/2006, 7/10/2006, 7/17/2006, 7/24/2006, 7/31/2006, 8/7/2006, 8/13/2006, 8/21/2006, 8/28/2006, 9/4/2006, 9/11/2006, 9/18/2006, 9/25/2006, 10/2/2006, 10/9/2006, 10/16/2006, 10/23/2006)
I’ve often thought one of the problems with today’s kids is they grow up in a world where literally anything can talk — if not sing or vibrate. When I was a kid, only the Speak n’ Spell said anything, and that was only if you pulled the string. (OK, the Little People Barn made a mooing sound when you closed the barn door, but that’s not the same).
To test this theory for yourself, here’s The Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man. It’s a largish plush doll of Spider-Man that sings and does what appear to be gang signs. As near as I can tell, he sings only two songs, “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “Spider-Man and Friends,” an adaptation of his classic theme song.
File under: Toys to buy the children of people you don’t like.
Wired magazine took 33 writers from the fields of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, and asked them to write 6-word short stories.
“Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?”
- Eileen Gunn“Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.”
- Joss Whedon“The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.”
- Orson Scott Card“Kirby had never eaten toes before.”
- Kevin Smith
I once won a Columbus Dispatch “noveleenie” contest (write a short story under 400 words.) But this sounds like more fun. Try your hand in the comments section.
(via Digital Webbing)
So I recently discovered this list of band name etymologies on wikipedia. Which got me thinking about bands names that I like or dislike, regardless of what I think of their actual music. So here’s a fun little exercise, feel free to jump in with your lists:
1) List 5 bands whose names you like. Not necessarily their music – you could hate the band and all they stand for, for instance – but just the name that you think is really cool, clever, or otherwise appeals to you. Here are mine:
Rage Against the Machine
Concrete Blonde
Nine Inch nails
Rusted Root
Love and Rockets
2) Now list 5 bands whose names you dislike greatly. You may love their music, but their band name just comes off as stupid, silly, or otherwise unappealing to you. Like they didn’t even try. My list:
Stone Temple Pilots
Limp Bizkit
Fountains of Wayne
The Mooney Suzuki
Toad the Wet Sprocket
One interesting observation I made was that there are tons of band names that I think are just plain boring or stupid, even amongst bands whose music I really like. Pretty much any name that is of the form The Somethings I find incredibly unimaginative.
In news that’s sure to please Andy, Newsarama is reporting that Moon Knight might be headed to television. Apparently, Variety “reported that Marvel Studios has joined with No Equal Entertainment – a Vancouver-based production company – to develop a live-action television series based on Moon Knight.”
Funniest comment from the Newsarama peanut gallery:
“Get ready for Nightman 2. I guarantee it”
It looks like Unshelved, the comic strip set in a library, is going to take on the graphic novel debate this week. I’m assuming it is based on the fact that a library in Missouri is under pressure to remove Blankets and Fun Home from the shelves because of their pornographic nature. One protester said, “I don’t want seedy people coming into the library and moving into our community.” I haven’t read Fun Home yet, so I guess I’m only half-seedy at this point.
Behold the splendid coloring job Tom Williams did for the cover of the upcoming Political Science tpb. Many thanks, Tom.
Recent family drama pushed the printing date back by a month; preorders are still available at www.theineffables.com, the first 50 of which come with a b&w print of the above cover.
Welcome back to another episode of “Guess the Artist,” wherein I post a page of artwork from the early career of some of today’s big name comic book artist, and you get to guess who it is.
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(previous weeks: 9/12/2005, 9/19/2005, 9/26/2005, 10/3/2005, 10/10/2005, 10/17/2005, 10/24/2005, 10/31/2005, 11/1/2005, 11/2/2005, 11/3/2005, 11/4/2005, 11/5/2005, 11/6/2005, 11/7/2005, 11/14/2005, 11/21/2005, 11/28/2005, 12/5/2005, 12/12/2005, 12/19/2005, 12/26/2005, 1/2/2006, 1/9/2006, 1/16/2006, 1/23/2006, 1/30/2006, 2/06/2006, 2/13/2006, 2/20/2006, 2/27/2006, 3/6/2006, 3/13/2006, 3/20/2006, 3/27/2006, 4/3/2006, 4/4/2006, 4/5/2006, 4/6/2006, 4/7/2006, 4/8/2006, 4/9/2006, 4/10/2006, 4/17/2006, 4/23/2006, 5/1/2006, 5/8/2006, 5/15/2006, 5/22/2006, 5/29/2006, 6/5/2006, 6/12/2006, 6/19/2006, 6/26/2006, 7/3/2006, 7/10/2006, 7/17/2006, 7/24/2006, 7/31/2006, 8/7/2006, 8/13/2006, 8/21/2006, 8/28/2006, 9/4/2006, 9/11/2006, 9/18/2006, 9/25/2006, 10/2/2006, 10/9/2006, 10/16/2006)
Cory Doctorow over at the legendary boingboing blog posted a link to my webcomic, Lifelike. And he had some nice words to say about the strip as well:
“There are so many different visual styles here, and Naraghi is such a versatile storyteller, that they barely seem to be part of the same series, but there’s something that links them together, a great storyteller’s sensibility. From hard-boiled noir crime to war memoirs to sweet, sentimental stories, Lifelike has the feel of a great comics anthology, like Drawn and Quarterly or World War III“
Cory is not only a huge comic book fan himself, but also a talented writer with 3 published science fiction novels: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe, and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (and check out the sweet Dave McKean cover on that last one.) Needless to say, I’m very flattered and excited.
The new Melt magazine is out, which means a new Rocket Science comic by your truly and Tim Fischer. You Columbus cats can pick up a free issue at most of the bars and clubs and cool stores around town. Everyone else can check it out on the web. The strip is on page 69 (heh heh heh.)
Once again, we poke fun at the sacred OSU football program.
From McSweeney’s, here’s “Aquaman, King of the Seven Seas, Has ####ing Had It With You, Man.”
Chris Pitzer and AdHouse Books finally have an online store where you can snag their stuff. They’re launching it with some sweet prints from the upcoming Paul Pope magnum opus “PulpHope.” First there’s this sweet and sassy serigraph called, oddly enough, “Napoleon.”
Next, a digital print poster with a HAWT girl pimping the upcoming art book.
And last, not an art print but a cool little ashcan edition containing some unpublished art and stories from Pope. Appropriately enough, it’s called the PulpHope Ashcan. Here’s the cover.
Nice to finally be able to buy direct from Pitzer. I’ve already paid for mine so I should be staring at Pope’s dolls next week.