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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
4:08 pm	So here's that AFI thing with the movies that you've seen bolded and the ones that you haven't well anyway here it is. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Monday, July 7th, 2008
3:21 pm	NEVAR FORGET This commercial is basically a rage masterwork: every time you look at it, you can find a new reason to get angry. http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/never_forgetting_has_never_looked The Hater reacts to the commercial I really, REALLY hoped was somehow a joke when I saw it this past 4th. And she's right: There are so many different levels on which to be absolutely fucking appalled by this that it's hard to pick just one. (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
1:18 pm	El Gorgo! #1 Redux! The front and back covers for El Gorgo! #1 are now up! They are awesome and should be gazed upon at once. Also! The issue is now available as a PDF and as a CBR (Comic Book Reader) file, which may facilitate reading for some. Go forth and check out! (Comment on this)
Monday, June 30th, 2008
12:25 am	El Gorgo! #1 El Gorgo! Go. Read. It is awesome. (And why I have been so antisocial.) It is also considerably bigger on the site. Like. A LOT bigger. You'll have to scroll up and down the pages, because at present they are treasury sized (and look much better than I've ever seen them, because the book kind of wants to be treasury sized). Later it'll be back in PDF form, complete with cover (!), and there'll be a blog and stuff, too, and whatever else, but at present we have only twenty-four huge pages to offer. Also, it could read better in IE. Here is the solution: DO NOT USE IE (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
11:18 am	Random Notes Tom has completed interiors on the first issue of the world's most awesome comics magazine. This is the best day of your life. More on this soon. *** Russ sent me his copy of Marvel Westerns, which was good, even if one of the better stories is continued in an issue of She-Hulk (?!?), which strikes me as a pretty lame thing to do in a collected hardcover edition where they could conceivably have just run the She-Hulk issue instead of fifty pages of highly skip-readable text in the back; but whatever, it was good anyway. Russ also left me a cryptic message on a gas station receipt tucked between two pages: On its reverse side, he has scrawled the legend: Johnny Dangerously Assassination Bureau I can only assume that I have been marked for death. By...Russ. Who also sent me the Afrodisiac mini comic and a copy of Jim Rugg's sketchbook from Heroes Con. (Thanks, man!) This is, to say the least, confusingly contradictory behavior. Nevertheless, I can take him. And this Johnny Dangerously guy. And the whole fucking Assassination Bureau. I'm not worried. *** I have seen no movies this summer. Not one. This was not a deliberate choice, but I'm thinking now that maybe I should just run with it. So far I have managed to, for one reason or another, decline invites to Mother of Tears (okay, THIS one I actually tried to see, but it wasn't in the cards, logistically), Iron Man (because I sort of don't care...I'll see it on disc, whatever), Indiana Jones and the Ravages of Time (because I talked everyone into seeing Mother of Tears instead, which I subsequently was unable to attend myself...sonofabitch...though apparently everyone else liked it a whole lot, so...yay), The Hulk (I don't care at all, and also by the point everyone was going to see it we'd all been out all day and it was ninety-five fucking degrees and I was half-dead from exhaustion and dehydration and just wanted to go home, so I went home), and Wall-E (this I want to see very much, but I was pretty wrecked from work and needed to write my comic anyway, for which you'll all thank me later, because it is the greatest thing you will ever read, ever). But you guys! What I have discovered is that if you don't go see big summer event movies? Nothing happens. It's really actually okay. Really. You will totally survive. You won't understand half the blogosphere for like three months, but you know what? It's not a big deal! You'll see some movie advertised and be all like, "Man, I bet that's a piece of shit," and your friends will be all like, "I'm so hoping against hope this movie is somehow actually awesome, because it's a remake of my favorite thing from childhood/a sequel to a movie that last had a sequel twenty-eight years ago/a comic book adventure brought to life!", and then everyone is disappointed except you when it turns out, inevitably, to be a piece of shit. So go on, suckas! Go on with your little "lives" of "going outside." I am inside, where there is air conditioning, and I still have MY ten dollars! Hah hah hah! ...Crap. I have to see Hellboy 2, though. Dammit! *** That's pretty much it, except that everyone should probably download Derrick and Tom Deja's newest podcast, because they're talking about The Witchfinder General, which is a very good film that will probably eventually be remade with Shia LeBouf or some bullshit, so treasure it now. I have about thirty-nine hours of this podcast to catch up with myself, but I'll most likely download this one for listening whilst I clean my stank-ass apartment. WOOOOOOO *** Oh! Also, stolen from Progressive Ruin, the exciting true story of one man's encounter with the reclusive Steve Ditko, in nine panels: http://steve-fuentes.livejournal.com/4914.html#cutid1 ...Yeah, that's about what I expected, too. Current Music: "Sewn Back Together Wrong" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
6:11 pm	Out for Blood, Sucker! Maruca and Rugg present Afrodisiac vs. Dracula! http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/06/comics_meat3.html ...Plus there is apparently a Street Angel story in some issue of some random anthology that I will probably never see unless I'm willing to shell out an extra five bucks for shipping. DAMN! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
2:53 pm	Procrastination What the House Test Says About You You have a high opinion of yourself. You think that you are quite important in the scheme of things... definitely more important than most people. You can't stand community oriented people and annoying "buy local" campaigns. You prefer to live the best life possible, and that doesn't really involve many other people. You are a playful, charming, and seductive person. People feel instantly close to you. You look attractive, but mostly because your rely on your natural good looks to get by. You are moved by the most simple of things. You can find pleasure from a small, perfect moment. The House Test (Comment on this)
Monday, June 16th, 2008
8:54 pm	Meme (slight delay) So like, Russ asked about seven songs that "move" me lately. Okay. That was like two weeks ago, but I have been busy writing about monkeys punching dinosaurs (COMING SOON), and...didn't reply. So anyway. I think I'm supposed to explain why these songs move me. This will not happen. Because I'm still writing monkeys punching dinosaurs, and...um...I want to watch "Diary of a Call Girl." And so. Here are video links instead! ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
6:33 pm	For Tom and Shannon Quite possibly NSFW. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
5:24 pm	!!! Grindhouse Month on IFC! http://www.ifc.com/grindhouse/?sssdmh=dm23.106334 Are you too lazy to click the link? I know you are! So here's the list! June 5: The Howling Eaten Alive The Habit June 12: Scream 3 The Evil Dead The Burning June 19th: Strangeland Dead Alive The Fog June 26th: House of 1,000 Corpses Scanners The Return of the Living Dead Now of course at least one of those movies is a huge pile of shit -- fact -- and while some of the choices are less than bold (The Fog? Fucking Scream 3?), this is overall an extremely noble gesture that features some sweet sweet carnage. Awwwww yeah! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
2:24 pm	HORROR Stuck in my head all day has been, for no reason, a song someone once shared with me that can, in fact, be sung to the tune of EVERY LINKIN PARK SONG: HIGH NASAL SINGING: MOM! I-want-some-PIE! Give-it-to-me-NOW! And I'll stop screeeeeeeaming... WHINY NASAL WHITE GUY RAPPING: Want some pie/give it to me now/taste so good/mmmm that pie HIGH NASAL SINGING: MOM!!! I-WANT-SOME -- etc. Once it locks down, this evil mindtrap never opens. You're welcome. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
9:18 am	Yes. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
3:00 pm	WHAT http://www.avclub.com/content/newswire/herzog_cage_to_team_up_on_bad Herzog, Cage to team up on Bad Lieutenant remake posted by: Scott Tobias May 14, 2008 - 12:52pm In what could be the most brilliant idea for a remake or the most insane (or both?), director Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage are teaming up for an unlikely redo of Abel Ferrara's provocative 1992 cop drama Bad Lieutenant. fuckingnicolascagenotalentassmotherfuckingcocksuckerthisisbullshitmanfuckingbullshitfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck ...Uh. Sorry. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
11:19 pm	Operation "low content" continues apace Meme via EVERYONE Your Pickup Line Is Hi. You'll do. The Magical Pick Up Line Generator (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
8:37 pm	What the hell is YOUR problem?! ...Well?! (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
10:43 pm	If Modok was there/That would have been so awesome/But we would be dead. Recommended reading, thefted from Journalista: The exciting true story of a young teacher who tries to introduce his charges to the world of independent art comics but succeeds only in convincing them all that Modok is awesome. http://www.benzilla.com/?p=980 (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
1:30 pm	Well, it's about time Hey, I liked Obama, too -- but let's face it. The way he's been dragging this primary season out is just obscene. Dropping out was the only honorable path open to him, and I guess it's better late than never. Didn't he realize it was Hillary's turn? Anyway, good luck, man, and I guess we'll see you in '16...maybe sooner, if you can swallow your pride and take the VP slot Hillary was big enough to offer you. Either way: Thank God it's finally over. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
11:54 pm	Yeah, we seem to have a telepathic phone now. I think it may be safe to freak out. (Frankly, I'm not convinced it isn't a hoax. It seems legit, but it's kinda farfetched. But if it's real....) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 10th, 2008
8:21 pm	Awwww yeah The Comics Journal is rather belatedly offering online subscriptions, and to hype the development, this month's complete issue is available for free reading. Said issue includes a whole big bunch of Tarpe Mills Miss Fury reprints, which should make at least one or two people on the list happy: http://www.tcj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=16&Itemid=72 (NOTE: I haven't looked over the whole thing, but as far as I can tell, the issue appears to be work safe.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
6:56 am	Don't wanna hear about it You know, in '04, when Bush was reelected or...whatever...everybody blamed Ohio for that shit, too. Can we put this one on Texas? Thanks. (11 Comments |Comment on this)