February 2012
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“A nation’s journalists and writers, like its poets and story-tellers, are...”
– Russell Banks, author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter, on protecting journalists in Mexico. This is why Mr. Banks is one of my idols and is a guy I always love talking to whenever I’m home.
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Sneak peek to Casanova: Avaritia #3. →
From Fraction’s photostream. Can’t embed it, but you can view it. In this panel, Gabriel Ba references THE PRISONER. I feel like I’ve gone a year without a new issue of my favorite comic, but really it’s only been four months.
Fraction notes in his caption:
influences, meet sleeve
from CASANOVA 3.3, “Harm Reduction”
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The Black Pill Diaries. →
I’m planning on something of a road trip this summer. I have a thing going on in the Grand Canyon, followed by San Diego Comic Con, and I’d like to drive up the coast. Visit my brother in LA, go to San Francisco for the sole purpose of meeting Mills—the source of my ridiculous Tumblr fanboyism, and did you check out this essay? I’m probably going to spend the week trying to...
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“If and when I write a forward for a DEMON collection, I will tell how Jack...”
– Mark Evanier in the introduction to the collection of Jack Kirby’s OMAC.
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WatchNo war on Iran protest near Grand Central.
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“I dumped you so you could become the man you are...
“That doesn’t make sense.”
“Listen, I’m from the future and the man you’re going to become needs to be dumped by me.”
“So you’re saying you’re from the future and that your reason for dumping me was so I can grow into some kind of known person in your time?”
“Yes. This has to happen in order to make my future possible.”
“So, what kind of person do I become in order to make your future...
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Image Comics Expo Programming Schedule. →
Man, I wish I had any kind of ability to be out there. There’s a few things I would go to: Stories and Scripts with Brubaker, Hickman, Seagle (one of my childhood favorite writers), Spotlight on Saga (obvs), Writing Workshop with John Layman. His scripts are amazing if you haven’t seen them.
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“Leaving aside the fact that the Watchmen characters were variations on...”
– J. Michael Straczynski on Alan Moore’s reaction to Before Watchmen.
While I’m not the biggest fan of Straczynski’s work, I find this quote to be a correct conviction of Alan Moore’s pompous attitude. The Moby Dick comment at the end of the NY Times piece is indicative enough...
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January 2012
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Tom Spurgeon interviews X.O. Manowar writer Robert... →
Quite a number of gems in this Sunday interview. People watch Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and whatever other Sunday morning news talk program, I read Spurgeon’s Sunday interview.
VENDITTI: The thing about Chris’s [Staros] style that I really appreciate is he doesn’t try to turn your story into his story. Instead, he finds out what it is you’re trying to say, and he...
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Salon.
Bitch, you went to Salon last night; how in the werrrlldddd did you get in? I called Johnnie and he said I totally know Aberdeen at the door and if you give him a hando, he’ll let you in. I replied, in kind, “Muffburger! What kind of Road Person do you think I am?” He said something untoward and not for the golden ears of this here over ninety crowd that is sharing this fine underground trailer....
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People are hilarious.
What does it say about a person when they are riding on the subway and seeing something saying, “That is blog-worthy,” or Twitter-worthy, or any other social network…worthy?
Earlier today, I saw a little girl wearing an Alaskan Malamute head for a hat. The sides of the hat, what must have been sheared off the shoulders of this dog, dangled down to this little girl’s shoulders. Otherwise,...
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The incomparable Jordan D. White, editor of...
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“Basically, what I learned from Japan is that creativity isn’t solely the domain...”
– Momus, in this fascinating interview with Marie Calloway at The Rumpus.
I’ve only recently begun noticing the work of Momus, mostly because of the attention to the Marie Calloway thing, but I’ve started becoming more and more intrigued with their work. This particular section from the...
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SOPA.
Today there will be no posting. For a bit this morning I was thinking: there are an awful lot of people posting on and about Blackout day, but aren’t they missing the point? There isn’t supposed to be any content. Isn’t not posting protesting the bill? Depends on who you ask, I guess. Doesn’t matter. I’m posting because I support the protest and we need to do all we...
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“There is a danger in believing that all of anxiety is somehow wrong or a problem...”
– My friend Tim Brearton on my friend Lana Del Rey.
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“Not only is his over-all tendency like mine—making knowledge the most powerful...”
– from Nietzsche’s postcard to Overbeck, written July 30, 1881 in Sils Maria, from The Portable Nietzsche.
This book makes me question everything I do. From this blog to the files and folders and notebooks in my filing cabinet and how all of this stuff could be assembled into a portable edition...
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Tintin as a Gonzo Journalist. →
I love it. The reasons being: he packs heat, he never takes notes, his sidekick is a drunk, he never files expense reports, he’s 14, and the story is always about him.
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“For my whole career, I always said that the best path to making someone laugh is...”
– Chris Onstad, in an excellent interview with Laura Hudson on the return of ACHEWOOD.
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“Over the next few months we agreed on the topic of film language and drew up a...”
– from R. John Williams’ article on “What It’s Like to be James Franco’s Professor” at Slate.
What is interesting to me is this study of film as a grammar or language, which is something I wrote in my new introduction to my expanded thesis. A lot of the scholarly work...
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WatchHere is a shitty cell-phone video of Tim and Oakley playing with some dancing puppets last night. Here also for some entertainment value is the Internet Identity entry from Dec. 27, 2011.
Boardwalk Empire is basically a HBO superband. The best actors from The Sopranos, Deadwood and The Wire with a big writer from The Sopranos, like a superband it does nothing special. “He fall into shoe polish?”...