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    Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
    1:26 am

    Two Items of ‘Watchmen’

    1. In this poster for the movie, the clouds in the background suggest the giant squid monster. (Above and to the right of the blimp is the squid’s central eye, and below and to the left of the blimp is one of its mouth tentacles.) So the squid did make into the movie, in a subliminal way.

    2. There’s going to be a Watchmen prequel. Two sketches (by Andy Kubert and J.G. Jones) have surfaced on comic news blogs, only to be removed by D.C.’s lawyers. But they’re still floating around out there on the Web if you do an image search. It would appear neither Alan Moore (obviously) nor Dave Gibbons (less obviously) is involved, so the actual project would have to be a fuck of a lot better than what’s in the sketches before I’d read it.

    Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
    8:07 am

    Did Cable Start Off as a Comedian Clone?

    Look at the famous cover of New Mutants #87. Black-and-white hair that’s thinner at the corners and thicker in the middle and sides; big shoulder pads; scar; big scar over one eye; big gun; hairy body; sarcastic expression.

    Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
    7:20 am

    That Tears It

    I give up. There is officially nothing I can anymore about anything. I suck at life and everything I try is just going to fail. No matter how bad I’m feeling life will always come along and kick me around. So I’m not going to get up again. I’m not giving life the satisfaction. I’m just going to eat whatever I want, take an extra sertraline per day, and wait with resignation for the next bad thing.

    Sunday, August 21st, 2011
    12:21 pm

    Huh?!

    Bernie Sanders: “I believe, from day one, if the Democratic caucus has 60 members already in the house. We have a Democratic president, while we of course want bipartisanship, but if you have the Republican party stone-walling without one Republican in office in support of the public option then finally you have to say to the Democratic caucus and the Senate is: ‘We got 60 votes. Let‘s say no to Republican filibusters and let’s come up with strong legislation.’”

    [Credit: Nation of Change]

    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    3:37 pm

    This Modern World: ‘Consumer’

    It would actually be comforting if this Tom Tomorrow cartoon were true.

    Monday, December 20th, 2010
    2:18 am

    Comic Strip: ‘Fort Knox’

    I wonder if this guy was trying to draw Brendan from Home Movies?

    In other news, thanks for the wintery banner behind my menu, LiveJournal. It goes well with the white hyperlinks and makes them delightfully hard to read.

    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    4:23 am

    Closing Logo Discovery

    Here’s one for scary closing logo fandom: Cheri Sundae Productions. I saw this at the tail end of a police-chase show that was on right before wrestling. Click the image to go to a video.


    Warning: potentially nightmare-inducing
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    4:21 pm

    [YouTube] Cute Accent Twirk

    This British presenter has a tip: keep your pantyhose in the freezer and you won’t get runs in them as easily. The British call pantyhose “tights” and runs “ladders”; it makes me giggle when she says she’s forever “ladge ring” her tights. She admits it’s because sometimes she’s “cloom se.” Hee hee. :-)

    I wonder if that trick works. I don’t have a freezer to try it with right now.

    Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
    6:23 pm
    Saturday, November 27th, 2010
    12:56 am
    I Love Janice Chiang’s Lettering

    It’s beautiful.
    Sunday, October 24th, 2010
    6:48 pm

    Awesome Thrift Store Find of the Week: ‘Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time’!

    1991. Starring James Avery [Shredder!], Michael Berryman, Sarah Douglas [mmmm], Wings Hauser, Marc Singer [Donovan!], Kari Wuhrer, Robert Z’Dar [hell, z’yeah!], and Frank Welker.

    Also purchased this week:

    Showdown in Little Tokyo [1991; starring Dolph Lundgren as a weeaboo and Brandon Lee as a banana]

    Death Warrant [1990; starring Jean-Claude van Damme as an undercover Mountie!]

    Secrets of the Unknown (AKA Secrets and Mysteries) [1988; hosted by Edward Mulhare (Devin!)]—the Jack the Ripper episode

    Lionheart [1990; starring Jean-Claude van Damme and Brian Thompson]

    Raw Deal [1986; starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Wanamaker, Darren McGavin, Ed Lauter, and Joe Regalbuto!]

    Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
    1:07 am

    This Guy Gets It

    “It’s admirable to want to apply the same standards to both sides, but straining to manufacture false equivalencies doesn’t accomplish that; sometimes, honestly applying the same standards to each side will result in a finding that one side, at least in that regard, is actually worse.”

    He happens to be talking about Jon Stewart, but I think this is an important distinction in all disputes. It never helps when someone enters a flamewar and says “How about if everybody just admits they’re wrong?”

    Sure. How about if rape victims take half the blame? After all, “it takes two to tango,” right?

    Monday, August 23rd, 2010
    7:49 pm
    WTF Happened to Google Image Search?!

    It’s slow and cluttered now. Change it back!
    Saturday, August 14th, 2010
    11:01 am
    Friday, August 6th, 2010
    2:33 am

    [Link] The Sixteen Personality Types

    I’m not any of these. Maybe that’s why I can never get through a Myers-Briggs questionnaire, and get stopped early on because none of the answers are right.

    I’m neither introverted nor extroverted. I crave neither alone time nor action.

    I don’t have a preference between breadth and depth of knowledge.

    I don’t trust or mistrust the evidence of my own senses or my own insights.

    I don’t choose between reason and empathy when deciding.

    There’s no answer. It always depends.

    I am mostly non-dichotomous. No more or less male-brained than female-brained. My only non-ambiguous attribute is that I am empathic and definitely not a good systematizer. But this is often where I break with personality types that would otherwise describe me. To a personality test, you can’t like things to be organized without being good at engineering.

    I’m not trying to be too cool to be categorized. It would be nice wto know that I fit into something, because most of the time I don’t feel fit for the world. Maybe I’m an EISNTFJP. Is there a forum for that?

    Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
    3:05 pm

    The Cracked Guide to Fonts

    As you might expect, I don’t agree with one or two things on the list, but still: hee hee!

    Friday, June 11th, 2010
    8:46 pm
    You Say ‘Bucky’

    I said “Bucky.”

    A Re A Ren Yun Ya

    Taco.
    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
    10:44 pm

    Future Rockstar Games

    I just recently learned of the existence of Grand Theft Auto expansion missions set in London 1961 and 1969. And then today I saw a TV commercial for a Rockstar game set in the Old West (I assume the phrase Grand Theft Horse will be in many reviews). It looks similar to Gun, a game I saw Amos playing on his Xbox at his place.

    I look forward to seeing various historical eras covered as Grand Theft Auto worlds. Being able to drive around really fast in cool cars and talk to colourful characters is a fun way to explore the period and soak up the nostalgia.

    This opens the door for setting it in the future, either in a future history they build themselves, or in borrowed futures such as Shadowrun. Imagine Grand Theft Auto: Shadowrun! Granted, there aren’t any cool cars in Shadowrun, but they could make some. And it’s already a game where you play a sort of criminal, operating outside the law and trying to become rich and powerful. Only instead of being Italian or Bosnian, you’re an elf.

    Alternatively, if Rockstar isn’t interested in doing GTA: SR, the Shadowrun people (is it still FASA?) could get a license to use Rockstar’s driving physics code and incorporate it into their game.

    Also, provided they stick to the 1980s version, Grand Theft Autobot.

    Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
    1:17 am
    I Miss Harrison Fong

    He was a good comic artist in the 1980s.
    Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
    10:08 am

    Of Whom Does John Dingell Remind Me?

    Monday night’s Daily Show guest was John Dingell, one of the longest-serving congressmen alive. He seemed like a pretty cool guy. His quiet, relaxed confidence in his progressive views was refreshing.

    Anyway, he kept reminding me of someone, but I couldn’t think who. I thought I had figured it out just now, but it’s semi-unflattering, so there’s going to have to be a disclaimer afterward.

    He reminded me of David Bowie in the early stages of progeria from The Hunger, when he first goes to the clinic to talk to Susan Sarandon.

    Disclaimer: Despite reminding me of a rapidly-aging vampire, Dingell is still pleasant-looking, and at his age (83) one could do a lot worse than to look like David Bowie (one of the prettiest men ever) under aging makeup. I figure Dingell must have been really good-looking as a young man, and this photo from Wikipedia supports that hypothesis. He’s better looking than the other person in that photo, and that’s JFK, who was no slouch himself. Also, a Google image search of “David Bowie” and “Hunger” shows that his character, John, actually looks nothing like Dingell—though in fairness to me, I can’t find any images from the middle of his transformation, only from the beginning (young Bowie) and end (scary bag of old flesh). If only YouTube worked on this computer. Then I could see if there’s a video clip from the movie.

    So now I’m back to square one. (The best of part of which was Mathnet, according to [info]fruvous.)

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