February 2012
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“When Marcel hobbled out, he was “a tattered coat upon a stick,” but...”
– from Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose. This is an amazing literary autobiography on the life of an English composition teacher. This book has been a tremendous help with helping me come to terms with the fact that yes I am going to be teaching. That may not have been my original intention when I...
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“Your Makeup Oscar winner is The Iron Lady. Even though the Harry Potter folks...”
– Drew Magary in his Oscar liveblog, because he’s right.
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Liveblog of Vaughan/Staples "Saga" Panel at Image... →
Because I’m THAT fucking excited for this book.
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“We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of Earth, neither mortal nor...”
– from the Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
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“The plot and book specific captions come up during the writing. In issue #3 I...”
– Matt Fraction on the gutter captions in DEFENDERS. Besides the book really being “Casanova Avengers” as Mr. Brevoort said somewhere, I found the captions are a pleasant and completely rad surprise. “Hey that tiger is flying a spaceship!” It is just fun comics.
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“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three...”
– from Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body by John Little (1998), quoted by Chris Arrant who got it from jelatinous and dotherunningman.
I need to internalize this, as I was saying to Amy yesterday, I’m just not that confident. I’m always selling myself short, that I...
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“It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and...”
– David Foster Wallace, quoted by walkwhilereading. There is quite a lot in Wallace that I love and think about now knowing that I will probably be spending the rest of my life teaching literature and writing. This interview has a number of interesting points on his teaching:
I like to teach freshman...
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“Dead Souls” by Joy Division.
Found...
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The Club.
I was sitting at my desk at work and I was doing anything to entertain myself and look busy. One of the scholar advisors came up to me and asked what one has to do to make use of our fax machine. I replied, “Well, you have to go downstairs. Walk through the Grolier Club where they cook those stray black squirrels that frolic all around campus, and take the steel door beneath the buffet line to the...
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From "The Devil's Guide to Hollywood" by Joe...
In the movie Tales of Ordinary Madness, written by Charles Bukowkski about himself, a prostitute was trying to get Ben Gazzara (playing Bukowski) to stop writing and make love to her.
Watching the movie in the back of a Hollywood theater, the real Bukowski yelled, “If that were me, I would have stopped typing long ago.”
Somebody in the audience told him to shut up.
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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...