Chicken Boy by Marc Arsenault
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TV Worth Watching
I’m still trying to figure out what Queens of the Stone Age have to do with Slow Food and why they were on Anthony Bourdain‘s No Reservations tonight… but I am much more excited about Tuesday night’s debut on the Sundance Channel of the film Strange Culture. I’ve...
Read moreKarlheinz Stockhausen – Final Kontakte
I was very sad to hear this evening of the passing of the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. I’ve found he is someone who more people have heard of then have listened to his works. Often, at best, they know of the connection from Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt of Can. A few years ago...
Read moreTiger Claw Elite Champions Performance
At long last I’ve managed to go through some more of my shots from the intense photo-overload in Florida last month. Some of my favorites are these from the Disney Martial Arts Festival night-time show performance by the Tiger Claw Elite Champions. Now I’m off to Raleigh-Durham in...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 15 – Chattanooga Choo Choo
Not entirely true story of meeting Mark Martin and the famous Ben ‘Benny’ Burford at the restaurant at the Chattanooga Choo Choo. Benny owns many drawings of mine, which I find bizarre. The unreadable caption in panel five should read – “Refuse to talk with their hands...
Read moreHappy Hollow, San Jose, CA
I dragged the fam and friends to the amazing Happy Hollow in San Jose, California today (OK… they dragged me). Despite being months behind on organizing photos, I had to pop these up right away. What a strange and wonderful place. See the full set.
Read moreSan Francisco Comic Book Shop Experiences Good and Bad
It was long past time I found a new place to buy books when in San Francisco… My local crappy shop in Brooklyn closed up a couple years ago and I finally sucked it up to ride the F out to visit Alex at his excellent Rocketship, and now I’ve found a similar friend at
Read moreflickr gets the goods – Schmap San Jose Guide
A photo of mine of the Winchester Mystery House is in something called the Schmap San Jose Guide. I’m in Santa Clara County, California now. If you’re going to be here, this may help you get around. My original photo set on flickr is here.
Read moreThou Shalt Not Question Stephen Fry
We were going to eat out tonight… after a trip to the book store… So… totally creeped out by the recent article in Harpers about toxic chemicals in your blood and a report on Trans fat that I read… I ventured out with the rest of the fam… and, even though it was a...
Read moreWhat is an OEM? – Tom Manning’s Spamtoons
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 (if far too infrequently updated) Design...
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 knew Lance a little bit, but liked him
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 took was the hideous yellow SUV in their
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. Stay tuned for a flood of word and image from this...
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 reliable place to eat some good food. OK? This first one...
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 the latest Nickelodeon Magazine at my local...
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 SketchBox freeware from omz:software did. It very simply...
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 30’s, Jawbone Railroad is a personal attack on the...
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 a grey world that seemed to wallow in...
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 Bones; Don’t Let Your Left Hand Know; When...
Read moreSPX, John P., and the Universe
10 years ago at SPX, me and Jason cornered King Cat creator John Porcellino and made him come clean about what makes him tick. With less than a week to go before this year’s Small Press Expo, we present to you an in depth interview with this master of small press comic art.
Read moreSteven Cerio Opening in Chicago this Friday
Steven Cerio has an art show going up this week at David Leonardis gallery in Chicago. The opening will be this Friday the 5th from 6pm to midnight. Steve will be there in person, so swing by and say hi! David Leonardis Gallery River North 217 West Huron St. #5 Chicago IL 312 863 9045
Read moreStupid Pages 7 – My Shoe Stinks
My Shoe Stinks by Marc Arsenault – 1993
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