As a distraction from everything that’s been going on recently, I spent part of yesterday scanning old sketchbook pages from my art school days. Here’re some of the few I wasn’t so horrifically embarrassed about that I immediately pretended that they didn’t exist:
One of the odd things about going through the sketchbooks was finding things [...]
And so, the cat’s sick.
To be fair, the cat’s never not been sick at any point in the last… two? Three, maybe? years; it’s just that we’ve been keeping her cancer under control with medication, and she’s seemed fine as she outlived the “three months left” prognosis by more than eight times that amount. But [...]
I had, for the longest time, this snobbery against “Best Of”s and “Greatest Hits” collections for bands and musicians; it was probably in some part brought on by the whole Britpop thing of, if you were really into a band, then you bought the singles and cared about the B-sides (Well, CD extra tracks, but [...]
If there was one comic that I could, hand on heart, say was an underappreciated work of genius deserving of a wider audience, it’d be Nick Abadzis’ Hugo Tate. See? That confused look on your face? That’s how underappreciated it is; you’ve never even heard of it.
(The above, of course, doesn’t apply to those of [...]
So, somewhere around the holidays, the Oregonian newspaper started being delivered to our house. We didn’t ask for it, we didn’t pay for it, but every morning without fail, it’s lying outside our front door waiting for me to take it in and read it over breakfast. Originally, it was something that seemed confusing and [...]
It occurs to me that I have never actually told you all about my Stan Lee Says He Is My Father dream. I know what that sounds like, when I call it that - some crazy dream about the co-creator of the Marvel Universe turned even-more-shameless charlatan having produced not only seminal runs on comics [...]
With all the buzz surrounding Gorillaz’ new album, Plastic Beach - buzz that I shamelessly added to over at io9 - it should probably come as no surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of their old stuff (as well as their new; that NPR stream of Plastic Beach reveals that it’s another great [...]
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