From Peter, who writes:
My roomate Max loves to make films for the You Tube. He made one about me. It’s only half true, tho.
Which half, I couldn’t shouldn’t say.
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They fused, somehow
August 8, 2007 – 2:45 pm
Junk science looks so much better
August 8, 2007 – 12:25 am
…when you’ve got your own animation studio!
(Neal Adams was an extremely accomplished cartoonist and comic artist in the 60s and 70s, and he is, apparently, not at all fooled by your “plate tectonics” nonsense)
JJ Abrams to be released from hell
July 29, 2007 – 4:07 pm
Here’s one for the QM:
But before the action could commence, the panel addressed recent announcements by “Lost” Director JJ Abrams and crew concerning the developing Star Trek prequel movie. Dispelling the false rumor that Matt Damon would star as James T. Kirk, Abrams earlier confirmed as true the rumor that 30 year old Zachary Quinto, [...]
Fashion! Turn to the left / Fashion! Turn to the right
July 26, 2007 – 2:31 pm
Do they only come in black? I mean, how’s an Israeli teen supposed to accessorize?
(subject line - beep beep!)
More on comic conventions
July 24, 2007 – 2:00 pm
So, the other day I was talking to some folks who mentioned they didn’t particularly want to go to any comic conventions (I’m being deliberately vague here). For the life of me, I can’t understand why:
On Wednesday, the San Diego International Comic Con starts. Expect announcements of projects, exclusives, signing and deals all over the [...]
Reaching for respectability, and probably getting it
July 20, 2007 – 1:21 am
I recently read Mike Carey’s first novel - I thought it was pretty good, despite being a bit difficult to slog though for having been more richly imagined and described than anything I’ve ever read, and I’m thinking I’ll snag his next one from Amazon UK rather than wait for it to be released here. [...]
Notes from the underground
July 19, 2007 – 8:42 pm
Cincinatti has seven miles of unfinished subway, abandoned in the 1920s. Man, that’s even weirder than Soviet sub bases and Swiss bunkers. Too many more architectural oddities and I’m going to have to make a new category.
Words of advice for young people
July 18, 2007 – 12:11 am
The GF, overheard talking to the TV:
Pull up your pants, you fucking douchebag!
C’mon all you Kids These Days™ - stop pissing her off.
(subject line hat tip)
Jah Wobble
July 14, 2007 – 2:56 pm
Trawling Wikipedia, I find:
Early post-PiL years
Soon after leaving PiL, Wobble started his solo career [...] However, his critical stance towards the commercialization of the music industry, compounded by heavy drinking led to his abandoning music for a short period in the mid eighties. By 1986 he was clean and sober. He then worked a variety [...]
The tears of sad hippies are measured (and doled out) in micrograms
July 13, 2007 – 12:26 pm
It’s always a good thing to know your chemist.
(Related personal anecdotes redacted.)
And me, without my camera
July 12, 2007 – 4:06 pm
Spotted on July 3rd in a New Hampshire store window: a sign, reading
Free Flag with every gun purchase!
Just awesome. Though, I’m sure, irritating to some.
Not extinct after all
April 23, 2007 – 3:32 pm
Cool!
Beyond is the eighth studio album by the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. It is their first LP in a decade, and the first album by the original “classic” lineup since 1988’s Bug. It is currently set for release on May 1, 2007.
On February 7, 2007, the entire album was leaked onto the internet via [...]
Environmentally unsound vehicle
March 22, 2007 – 12:17 pm
Prius vs. Hummer:
Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. [...] The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid. [...] The Hummer, on the other [...]
$240 worth of pudding
March 2, 2007 – 10:29 pm
OK, I admit it - I’m wrong. The State does not need to be overthrown. Well, not this State, anyway.
Live sex show disrupted by outbreak of Comic Convention
January 19, 2007 – 10:39 am
TJIC spanks* loser academics for self-congratulation crossed with Bond fanboyism:
“This [ academic ] conference [ on James Bond ] is a revolutionary act,” said Luc Shankland, a lecturer on media and cultural studies at the Sorbonne
Tenured academics, you see, don’t really like revolution at all. They’re the biggest stasists on the planet.
What they like is [...]
Our brains are just faking it, apparently
January 9, 2007 – 11:59 pm
It seems we have only the vaguest sense of the world around us. Check this out, and look at other videos from the Visual Cognition Lab at the University of Illinois.
(via the afterword of Peter Watts Blindsight, an enjoyable and interesting hard-SF book & free download)
Snarking at pre-Cambrian business models
January 5, 2007 – 12:10 am
Bob Frankston, mocking the Regulatorium:
Power Distribution to be like Telecom Distribution
For Immediate Release: POWER SHARING RENEGOTIATED
Inspired the the success of faux-ATT in its BS acquisition the owners for the power generating companies including Niagara, Quebec, TMI and others have opted out of the shared power distribution agreements and will build their own local distribution systems. [...]
Norin Radd
December 27, 2006 – 2:56 pm
Although I didn’t much like the first one (it didn’t have much to recommend it besides special effects*), I’m hoping one can’t go wrong with Galactus.
* I know, I know. But still.