March 2011
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“Last year I wrote and drew a Silver Surfer story for Marvel’s Strange Tales...”
– Frank Santoro gives us a lesson in layout at the Comics Journal. I’m still breaking this down in my head as I’m outlining a second issue right now in the notebook but this just adds another layer to a checklist I’m working on to make sure that I don’t break any rules. I guess...
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WatchThe very nice and mega-smart Rachel and I were Twitter-conversing (?) about how this was an early version of Jack Donaghy, from Elizabethtown. I don’t remember much of that movie, but since then I can’t help but keep watching this video on repeat. It’s endlessly entertaining.
Today, I was saddened to see a crew of kids get on the train with hair spiked out Jersey Shore-style....
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“On December 1st I turned 93. I am old enough to be your mother. I have grown...”
– Joanne Siegel’s heart-wrenching letter to the Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros to cease their ongoing action of suing the families of Superman’s creators. This is just awful to read, and there is no other way of saying it.
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Amy Adams will play Lois Lane. →
I approve of this with every ounce of my being.
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Oh hey happy birthday, Writer-A!
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Sucker Punch
was a pretty long music video. I still don’t understand why the title is what it is.
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Shit, so did you move to LA? No Dancehall in the...
caseypowers:
I did indeed :) Elizabeth said she’d be in touch with dancehall though. I may come back depending on a few details like housing because my sister won’t be living there anymore and what exactly I’d be doing/if I’d get a role, etc. Hopefully though. I seriously miss lp so much.
Ask me anything
Oh no kidding. Can’t say whether I’ll be back, because I’ll be done with...
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“AXEL ALONSO, the new editor in chief of Marvel Comics, was recalling how, about...”
– From the New York Times article, “Marvel Faces a Mighty Foe.” Any kind of story coming from Axel and I would hang off his ear to hear. He’s just one of those few guys I want to grow up to be like.
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“David Press is one of those writers who came out of the Blogging movement around...”
– from “The Worst American Writers of the 21st Century” by David F. Horrocks in the June 11, 2021 edition of the New York Times Magazine.
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WatchThat Warren Ellis documentary has a new trailer and they’ve started up a Kickstarter page. Which has already made its goal, but I’m sure they could use some extra cash to finish the product. I cannot fucking wait to see this thing.
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“If CNN doesn’t have the balls to call Victoria Jackson on her shit, how does...”
– Yesterday, I found out through Mark’s post that Abhay is on Tumblr. The above is proof that he is very easily the most frenetic and entertaining cultural commentator I’ve ever encountered and still pretty much the only comic book critic I read. Go read his Dracula comic, it will blow...
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danhacker asked: I'm honestly surprised NBC's new Wonder Woman let alone made it to pilot, but also got picked up for the fall. It's gotta be better than The Cape, that's for sure.
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Fuck it.
Most days I’ve got nothing. In the meantime, just listen to Andy Khouri’s Rainy Day Mix on repeat. That is all that is worth doing today.
Real Time with RealRealSoft - Episode 11 - POWER... →
aplaceforfacts:
realrealsoft:
why this radioshow was our best yet:
we’d taken a two week hiatus so we actually had stuff to talk about
serious ac-tor davidfuternick and serious direc-tor mattedits were the special guests
futernick & i did a powerhour!!
kevin is back to his old jerk self and got in quite a few zingers in, including his favourite: “dumb bitch”
our #1 superfan calls in -...
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I like how I post one nerd related thing and it gets a ton of notes, then I post a short story and NOTHING. Whine whine, blah blah. I’m an ass. Cry me a river.
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5: The Uncle.
Five Foot Two in Carhart jacket and work boots takes the brown package from Mr. Tadesco’s plastic Ikea desk. Mr. Tadesco, looks up at Five Foot Two through old-style glasses and sniffles through his nose-hair, “The first car, 2 train, at the museum.”
Five Foot Two nods and replies in a Spanish affirmative, and exits the office through the three ton steel door, into the interior room that is...
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“Excuse me ladies and gentleMEN, I’m here to sell some WEED, not for no...”
– a kid on the subway earlier today. Not to be all NYC-inside joker-y, but you’ll get why this is funny if you’ve ever taken the subway and there is some kid selling some candy for a dollar for his basketball team.
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“The Late Greats” by Wilco. For...
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Five Literary Contests you can enter for less than... →
For your consideration. Probably something worth doing.
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“Hipster IS the new hair metal. Its gloriously played out and has gone as far as...”
– The Strokes Don’t Care Whether You Live Or Die by Ned Hepburn. This is totally true. At my parent’s place, I have a poster of the Strokes who became popular among my friends and I when I had a radio show in college and their first album was on the station’s rotation. I liked them...
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What Celebrity Culture Means by Mills Baker. →
This is the business. A much more succinct and eloquent way of saying what I’m trying to say with Worthy’s Cause. Nicely done.
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bllsmk asked: Ha! I was wondering why you hadn't posted in awhile. I wasn't following you! I must have been finding your links on my Twitter List.
It's depressing seeing covers and panels over and over and over again. And I mean that many 'overs'. I leave my desk for a few hours and I have to scroll through random adorable panels. I'd love to see some longform...
It's depressing seeing covers and panels over and over and over again. And I mean that many 'overs'. I leave my desk for a few hours and I have to scroll through random adorable panels. I'd love to see some longform...
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“In July, at someone’s cookout, he spoke to me for the first time. I hear...”
– From “The Cut of his Jib” by Anthony Giardina, in the Italian-American Reader. When Romano addresses him about being a good lawnmower and Giardina is not able to answer, too shell-shocked that he’s in even in the presence of this man he admires as idol worship or some kind of...
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My ComiXology Profile →
So, I finally organized everything I’m currently reading. What are you all reading?
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“Lullabye” by The Cure. Why is it that...
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“Up your gizzard, you fat pimp.”
– Casino Royale: Discovering The Lost Script via Operation Failure. An absolutely fascinating read on the possibilities of a script, like 2004’s Casino Royale, by frequent Hitchcock writer Ben Hecht coming after From Russia With Love and thus spinning the entire Bond franchise in an alternate...
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I promise not to be so hot-button political tomorrow. Yeesh. Back to our regularly scheduled program of all around literary nerd and stereotype. Apologies all around.
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“The terminal decline of newspapers has destroyed thousands of jobs that once...”
– Chris Hedges on Journalism vs “Citizen Journalism”. This entire piece is fascinating and absolutely true, and a reason why I don’t write for any websites anymore. Not that the entire ordeal was shitty, because it wasn’t, I learned quite a bit and made a ton of great friends...
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“Most Americans graduated from public schools, and most went from school to...”
– From The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch. I have a real conflict with this—most of the time I just try staying out of it. This is just my natural default action from avoiding conflict, but this is one time where I’m genuinely torn between friends. I have one friend who works in... 