Talking About Shopping and Football

Hello, just a quick note or two about this site as it continues to grow and heave. UPDATED: The Wow Cool Shop is all the way live! More images and samples to be added soon. We currently have 70 different items available – Books, CDs...

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Sparkplug at TCAF this weekend

Rina Ayuyang will be representing Sparkplug Comic Books at this year’s TCAF in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She will be signing copies of her debut graphic novel Whirlwind Wonderland, co-published by Sparkplug and Tugboat Press. She’ll also have new...

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Why We Do This: The Fall

The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith is a marvelous BBC documentary from a few years back that I was pointed to by Richard Metzger. It is available to see on YouTube in nine parts. The first part is above. Around when...

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Comics Variety

The quote below is from CBGXtra.com CBG is the Comic Buyer’s Guide, a comic book industry watch dog for something like 30 or 40 years, I think. It was the voice that retailers listened to when I worked in a comic store in 1989-94 or...

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Excessive Force

Haunted Happenings PDX, a horror focused website just put up a great interview with Julia Gfrörer about her work and Flesh and Bone. Read it now here:www.hauntedhappeningspdx.com

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And this is interesting… Part 2

or, I swear, I shall close every last one of these tabs, continued. CD Baby Interviews Dave Allen (currently a music marketing genius, formerly a member of Gang of Four and Shriekback), with much coverage of Dave’s challenge to musicians to...

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What the Future Sounded Like

What the Future Sounded Like

I’ve watched this documentary on EMS (Electronic Music Studios) every few months since I first discovered it. MAKE magazine blogged it a few days ago. I recently saw this awesome ad for the EMS VCS3 (below) at the excellent Issues Newsstand...

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