May 2011
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April 2011
4 posts
Roger Langridge on the Problem with Mainstream...
I really don’t think Marvel and DC are helping things by having gritty, R-rated versions of their superheroes in their main comics – what they sell as the “real” versions – while simultaneously selling those exact same characters in kids’ comics and plastering them all over lunchboxes and animated cartoons… Casual readership by kids, or by parents for their kids, is effectively impossible the...
Here I am on KUOW talking about mini e-books.
February 2011
17 posts
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Linus is still my hero.
Stylistically this is interesting for being composed of eight panels. It also ends with that frequent (although at this point still rarely-seen) concluding word “*sigh*”.
Linus is physically uncoordinated enough that he can’t safely step on or off a curb, but he’s psychologically adept enough to feel despair for his...
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Pardon the Dump of Presidential Proportions
I’m testing out my new ifttt.com beta account. Working well, so far!
Only a Nerd Could Love This Song
(This is part of an ongoing series rating presidential campaign songs, in rough chronological order. You can find all the previous entries here.)
Nerdiest. President. Ever.Millard Fillmore is arguably our nerdiest president. Names fall into and out of fashion with every decade, but there was never a time that being named “Millard Fillmore” did not get you mocked. He was the last of...
Old Rough and Ready
(This is part of an ongoing series rating presidential campaign songs, in rough chronological order. You can find all the previous entries here.)
First of all: The nickname “Old Rough and Ready” is better than just about any other presidential nickname ever. It works for a soldier who is brave and strong or for a gay porn star. Good job, Zachary Taylor!
Second of all:
Rum-a-dum-dum,...
Cool Story, Polk
(This is part of an ongoing series rating presidential campaign songs, in rough chronological order. You can find all the previous entries here.)
If there’s one thing that chafes me, it’s bullshit politican man-of-the-people schtick. Here’s a semi-recent example:
A much older example is “Jimmy Polk of Tennessee,” a folksy tune about how James Polk came from out of...
"And with them, we'll beat up Van, Van/Van is a...
(This is part of an ongoing series rating presidential campaign songs, in rough chronological order. You can find all the previous entries here.)
On Friday, we saw that (unlike Martin Van Buren) William Henry Harrison had a great campaign song. Today, we look at his second great campaign song, “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.” Here’s a They Might Be Giants cover of that song:
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A-Drinkin' and A-Votin'
Yesterday, we saw that Martin Van Buren really didn’t have a good campaign song. Instead, his song ham-handedly called anyone who’d vote against him a drunk. His opponent, William Henry Harrison understood the value of a good campaign song. He had two classics of the form, the first of which we’ll talk about today.
“The Harrison Yankee Doodle” is notable for two...
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January 2011
10 posts
The Conspiracy Theory Detector
From Scientific American:
The more that [the theory] manifests the following characteristics, the less probable that the theory is grounded in reality:
Proof of the conspiracy supposedly emerges from a pattern of “connecting the dots” between events that need not be causally connected. When no evidence supports these connections except the allegation of the conspiracy or when the evidence...
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December 2010
12 posts
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I can’t stop thinking about this. Especially that one “Sartre” as a modifier.
Isle of Tune →
BEEEEEEEEEES!!! →
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For Some Reason, I Watched Skyline
1. The movie storytelling formula is broken. Screenwriters are told to make audiences care about characters by jamming those characters full of bloated backstory and tedious monologues. In terms of garbage filmmaking—by which I mean in terms of Skyline—screenwriters need to realize that the modern audience doesn’t need six overt reminders in the dialogue that a character is pregnant; we...
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November 2010
18 posts
AND the horse you rode in on! →
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“Racism is an old-folks’ disease.”
– Manny Velazquez, from Dan Charnas’s history of the hip-hop business, The Big Payback. I’d say homophobia is, too.
You've got to admire this kid's pluck →
Bus Boy has figured out a bunch of different ways to get from Seattle to different destinations using nothing but public transit. The site is a mess, but I love the idea of getting from here to Vancouver on buses just to do it.