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Friday, May 30, 2003
A word on Congo Regular readers (hi mom) know this is not a political blog. It's not even a blog, just a palimpsest of neurotic whimsy. But there are MILLIONS of dead people piling up in uncountable mounds in the Congo. Would Belgium and France and all those countries that want to rival, or foil, or counterbalance American imperialism please get a coalition together to go in and kick all the necessary asses to make this stop immediately. We'll oppose you in the U.N. maybe, but just tell us to fuck off, go in and in like 50 days fix the genocide thing. Don't worry about rebuilding before you stop the killing. Thursday, May 29, 2003
Digest Style Manual Updated! Non-compliance not an option. I will never, ever again describe one thing as another thing on a drug, or as another thing meets a third thing. I'm still going to describe things as the bastard children of another thing and a third thing, for now. Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Giant transforming robot joins war effort, fails to update blog First, an apology: This story surfaced like two months ago, and I missed it entirely. I live in Ohio, ferchrissakes, and this I am telling you is exactly the kind of crap that I am trying to foist here. Yes, there's a million metric ass-tons of crap veining Mount Internet, but there are a lot of lazy, unoriginal bloggers mining its rich, irony ore. The competition would be intense if not for such bloggers' endemic apathy. I certainly don't care. But I believe in freshness: I think that your crap has got to be fresh, or else what do you have? Just crap. Sorry for the just crap. To make it up to you I will leave the house and not post for a while. (off that joint where stereolabrat is hosted, via Colby Cosh, whose smartness I covet. I read CC every day and get pissy at him when he doesn't post, even though I've never met or interacted with him in any way, and sometimes I overfamiliarly refer to him as "CC," which I imagine he wouldn't like. Or maybe he would. Who knows. He gets paid to journalize by day. His blog is known to contain Canada (Western), hockey, music and news and it would permit, even encourage, smoking if it existed in realspace. Is this too long for parenthesis?) Tuesday, May 27, 2003
What the fuck are YOU looking at? Recent e-mail suggests that the Digest is no longer Readerless. Shit. Give me a minute, here. Monday, May 26, 2003
Happy Memorial Day To PFC Luther Burdette Allen, 63rd Infantry Division, wherever you now may be. I miss you, Granddad. Seen Bill Mauldin yet? Thanks for saving the world.
Ha, ha! There's some art! You know how some bloggers, like Aaron "Mr.-Genius-Hegel-blah-blah-Schopenhauer" Haspel have annoying "expertise" and "know-it-allness" about stuff like poetry, Czechoslovakia, self-fellating, or Mahler, or driving trains or motorcars? And how they show off all the time in "thoughtful," "clever," and "amusing" posts on a host of subjects? I'm completely incapable of that kind of shit, so I'll be sticking mostly to swearing, escapist male power fantasies (often featuring underwear and wellingtons), and weirdness. But that can't stop me from having a regular art feature where I celebrate art through critique. Celebrate its ass off. Full disclosure of bias: I favor the "Damn, I ruptured my nutsack laughing at that shit!" and "Whoa, what's with that?" schools. Also, porn. Even cartooning. "This is a picture of L. Ron Hubbard on the couch eating Funyuns and pizza. He's thinking, "Mmmm, that's a lot of pizza!"" Brandon Bird brings a keen eye, a learned hand and a variety of brushes and other painting equipment at his disposal -- pallettes, too, yes -- to bear on the kind of things we really, really need to see. As a culture, together. Hugging. Brandon also organized a Santa Cruz gallery show where he and his artist friends displayed works inspired by Edward Norton. Next up: Law & Order. Not the concepts, but the much spun-off TV drama. As if I'd link it if it was about laws and orders.
"A g'day for comics," or "Fair Inkum," or some other bad Australia/comics pun Via Journalista (scroll down to second item in "In Other News") comes word that last October's first annual OzComics 24-Hour Challenge is being reprised June 7-9. Amature and professional antipodean scripters, scribblers and pixelherders must squeeze out the best they can on a common theme in a 24-hour period, which according to the contest dates, comprises three days. Time flies down under, I guess. Might Stephen Turner offer a revision of his grossly unpredictive Aussie war story from 2002? Not holding my breath. (You might also enjoy the script of Turner's nifty mini-comic, Meena, about a political immigrant to Oz (an Afghan, natch) who assassinates two politicians (Howard and Ruddock) whose government policies he blames for the death of his daughter -- but our troubled subject is not a terrorist because he possessed "no terrorist motivations, or even political motivations, for his crime." Oh.) Sunday, May 25, 2003
Weighing in on comics The latest Title Bout, courtesy of the mysterious AK, is the funniest ever, maybe even for non-comics people. He's like stereorlabrat without the Rack(TM). But he's got the Eyebrows(TM), and Diamond Comics' weekly shipping list to skewer instead of Wms.burg hipsters in gimme caps.
Nipponese Cature Engrish may be passe, but this humiliates cats to make it funny again like the very first time. (again, via the super and excellent transom that is collision detection, through which all that's strange, and good, and strangely good, seems to drift)
Mash at your own risk At last! Outerwear which explains that part of "no" that's so hard to, er, grasp. (via collision detection) Sunday, March 23, 2003
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