I gleefully tracked the poetry of spam this past summer (or spoetry) in a couple of posts (Thing 1 | Thing 2). Now, Yale School of Art MFA candidate Tom Manning has gone one better and turned them into cartoons. See the results on the excellent...
Read moreLance Hahn never paid to play
So, yeah, I’m always the last to know it seems. I heard from about the last person I would expect to hear from that Lance Hahn had died. That news disturbed me and colored these last few day more than I would have thought possible. I only...
Read moreThe creeping death of the interweb
Google your 10 favorite obsessions. You’ll see it. Something has changed. Much is slipping away.
Read moreToday is going to be a good day
This was my neighbors lawn this morning. If anyone, I thought the guy two doors down who kept telling the trick-or-treaters to stay off his grass would be the one to get nailed. What must these guys have done that was so much worse? Maybe all it...
Read moreMemories of the Space Age
I’ve been in Florida since Tuesday. I’m leaving on Monday. Too much to process right now. Cocoa Beach… the Kennedy Space Center… survived the SGIA in Orlando today. The Disney Martial Arts Festival is the next two days...
Read more“Did you leave a head in here?”
More Songs About Buildings and Food
Managed to forget about these in my previous posts about quality Scarfing Material and The Best Leather You’ll Ever Know… But, if, for whatever reason, you happen to read this and be in these cities, then you’ll know of a...
Read moreTruckhead – Don’t you want to be my baby?
Swimming in the great idea pool of the collective unconscious, it can be funny the things that will float by you on the way to the top. I was more that a little confused and surprised this weekend to come across a comic strip called Truckhead in...
Read moreI’ve packed my Stickies in a SketchBox
OK. At long last I have converted the cluttered old mess of Stickies on my Mac (I had over 20) into something else. I’ve tried several other notes/thought organizer type apps and none of them, well… stuck. The recently released...
Read moreJawbone Railroad
OK. Here’s a much belated plug. You like old-timey music? You going to Montana? Then be sure to check out my brother Blaise’s band Jawbone Railroad. Here’s their bio: Playing all your favorite hits from the 20’s and...
Read moreEvery book can be a postponed suicide, but this one might as well have a razor blade attached to the back
I guess it’s not good to go on first impressions in a review, but rarely have I seen such a gloomy and uninviting book as The Best American Comics 2007. The cover, when seen in person, is a ghastly thing, and a casual flip through revealed...
Read moreThe Legend Of Frank Budgen Vol. 1 released
After much speculation and rumor, and finally a long silence… We received today a package containing a 10″ vinyl audio recording of six songs by Frank Budgen. The tracks are: Here We Go Lie Down; Real Pain, Real Blood, Real Broken...
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