Stumbled on to this new comic (through Piperka.net) which is really well drawn. It’s a bit of a predictable coming-of-age superhero-ish plot but it does have lots of odd touches, including the protagonist barfing up a very big hammer (hence the title) to use in fighting the bad guys. It barely has an archive so it’s a quick read right now and it’s entirely possible … Continue reading Big F*ing Hammer
The novel The Man in the High Castle is my favorite novel by Philip K. Dick. (Granted I haven’t read all of them yet so that could change.) I was interested when Amazon did a pilot for a teevee show based on the novel. Mostly I thought it was an interesting adaption. It did a lot of work to recreate the alternate universe. I was … Continue reading The Man in the High Castle
I hope Lev Grossman is right because The Magicians series is one of my favorite stories and I really really want to like the teevee series. The pilot is up on Youtube – the series starts on January 25th. Update February 2018: Was this a bookmark post? Let’s call it a bookmark post. I’ve watched the first two seasons of The Magicians (the third is … Continue reading The Magicians on SyFy
David Robert Jones died yesterday at age 69 — which seems way too young. I had no idea he was fighting liver cancer (which is reported as the cause of his death). I wouldn’t say Bowie is my favorite artist ever but you couldn’t help but be impressed by the vitality of his career. I have favorite songs from all parts of his career but … Continue reading David Bowie 1947 – 2016
I ported a good bit of the ComixTALK database from Drupal to WordPress and put it back up on the web. Of course there are numerous broken bits and ragged edges on the thing but it’s nice to have the archives in public again. That project lasted just about ten years and while I am probably not going to jump into writing there right now, now I … Continue reading Comix TALK archives back on the web
An interview with Joi Ito and Nick Negroponte looking back at the amazing inventions that have come out of MIT’s multi-disciplinary Media Lab. Continue reading MIT Media Lab Overview
Two Best of Trailers Mashups: And David Erlich’s Countdown of the 25 Best Films of 2015: Continue reading 2015: Year in Movies
2015 Pop Danthology Part 1 Part 2 DJ Earworm’s United State of Pop for 2015 Continue reading 2015: The Year in Pop Music
On yesterday’s post I included an old sketch of a recurring character – Tom Banner (a character I created in 6th grade) that it is painful to look at. Sorry about that – I guess the face is okay but I think his left arm is half the length it should be and that tie is a little too Dilbert-y. Anyhow here is a sketch … Continue reading Thomas Banner Sketch
A quick post to try out the new WordPress app for the Mac (it’s available for Linux and Windoz too). Seems pretty comparable to the in-browser editing experience. I also got my “annual report” on Altertainment from Jetpack. I didn’t do much blogging this year so understandly the world’s attention to the site has fallen off of a cliff, into the ocean and almost to … Continue reading WordPress on the Desktop
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