Racist imagery “found” in 1931 comic book!
The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled a Tintin book racist and criticised a high street book chain for stocking the title.
The CRE says Tintin in the Congo makes black people “look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles”.
It has called on Borders to remove it from sale due to [...]
iowahawk:
A few minutes later we arrived at the nondescript hall deep in the Blogosphere Bowery. We pushed through the filthy padded door and made our way to a smoky backroom. Huey was seated at a card table, around which sat a rogue’s gallery of sleazy online opinion slingers: Beantown Barney, the head of the Boston [...]
The dangers of working at home:
The worst writing experience of my life was authoring my Apple book, “Infinite Loop.” It was not bad just because of the subject matter, but because all of the other demands on my life reduced me to writing the book from 11 p.m to about 4 a.m. every night for [...]
If you’ve ever spent any time looking at artists’ websites (maybe because you occasionally follow links from Drawn! or something), these observations will be familiar:
In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of [...]
Via Instapundit, this gem, which will no doubt be incorporated into a “plot” by the end of the week:
The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one [...]
The British are coming! The British are coming!
Director Mike Figgis spent longer at LAX airport than intended. He’d arrived in Los Angeles, along with half the acting and directing world, for what is known as ‘pilot season’, when the big studios try out new scripts, directors and actors in a two-week frenzy of auditions and [...]
Japan Establish “Nobel Prize” for Manga Tentacle Porn:
The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday established on Tuesday the manga world’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize for up-and-coming non-Japanese manga artists as a way to boost the country’s diplomacy through pop culture. Foreign Minister Taro Aso, known to be a manga aficionado, said in a news conference that [...]
The comedy gold at dispatches from TJICistan demonstrates that reality is funnier than anything you could ever hope to say about it.
(I was going to title this post “Your Honor, may I approach the benchpress?” but remembered google likes title tags.)
TJIC is more fun at lunchtime (”smash the state!”) than dinnertime (”zzzzzz!”):
Friday: Sushi and good times with Jared and TJIC, followed by what was supposed to be bowling but instead turned into a viewing of The Big Lebowski. During the movie, someone starts snoring, and I’m not sure if it’s one of the two human [...]
When a new senator places his hand on the book to be sworn in, very few realize it is actually the Necronomicon until Cheney laughs and tells them “you’re mine now”.
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 [...]
The State Attorney-General thinks that Aqua Teen Hunger Force lite-brite signs qualify as a hoax:
BOSTON – This morning, two men were arraigned in connection with the hoax devices found in and around the Boston area yesterday. Sean Stevens, age 28, of Charlestown, and Peter Berdovsky, age 27, of Arlington, were each charged with placing [...]
Two attempts to discern the real stories implied by the bits of on-screen wreckage we had to make do with:
The Matrix
Star Wars
Hopefully these’ll be read by some kid out there, who will treat us all to what Lucas & the Warchowskis didn’t.
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 [...]
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. [...]