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Friday, January 13, 2006

This is the funniest thing I've seen today.

posted by Jillian : 1/13/2006 06:17:00 PM 0 comments

Right. So Vimanarama: absolutely lovely. More "power of love" bullshit than I generally like to see in a story, but done in a way I found palatable enough. I think it would appeal more to teenage girls than any of Morrison's other work that I've read, but that's not so bad. The kiddies need to branch out from manga.

If nothing else, it features the line, "You know, sometimes you just hate somebody, and with God it could be me." Who can argue with that?

posted by Jillian : 1/13/2006 01:19:00 PM 0 comments

I just had my first truly obnoxious customer in my career as a purveyor of fine comics. It wasn't the porn-loving youth minister or the guy who wanted to tell me about the "real" Green Lantern or the kid with the nifty fingerless gloves. It was the same monster that plagued in my last life, a goddamn suburban brood sow. Some palid beige cunt with a 4-year-old wanted to talk about every poster in the store and haggle over prices of items that aren't even for sale, interrupting my conversations with real customers and asking me to call every other store in town that sells posters because she wants to get them all at one store. Take your little Aiden/Connor/whatever creature back to Round Rock and leave me alone! I have important work to do! Incidentally, Vimanarama is going well. Not uncomfortably brown at all thus far and truly exciting. I may even pick up Superman when I'm done. I wish Morrison didn't feel compelled to do fanfic, but at least there's a chance it'll be worth my time.

posted by Jillian : 1/13/2006 12:13:00 PM 0 comments

Look, a blog. Nothing to report at the moment; I just freed myself from a conversation about Superman #224 and I'm about to start reading Vimanarama. Grant Morrison's depictions of brown people are a little discomfitting at times, but it looks fun.

posted by Jillian : 1/13/2006 11:54:00 AM 0 comments

myspace.heh redux

a banner ad on myspace is currently telling me:

33 Million People in America with skin have eczema.

I love ad copy.

--Ian
this of course begs the question, how many people without skin have eczema?.

posted by Ian Quinn : 1/13/2006 04:11:00 AM 0 comments

Thursday, January 12, 2006

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Booming nations 'threaten Earth'

Booming nations 'threaten Earth'

Earth lacks the water, energy and agricultural land to allow China and India to attain Western living standards, a US think-tank has warned.

Story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4604556.stm

Ok, not that this isn't a disturbing article, but that's one helluva racist headline, I think. I mean, the body text is actually pretty good, but I'd much rather see "India and China Have Chance to Bitch-Slap Western World With Progressive Thinking."

Yeah, yeah, there's a reason I don't write headlines.

--Ian

posted by Ian Quinn : 1/12/2006 02:49:00 AM 1 comments

test

trying to get performancing to work...

posted by Ian Quinn : 1/12/2006 02:20:00 AM 0 comments

myspace.hah

posted by Ian Quinn : 1/12/2006 02:00:00 AM 0 comments