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Well, It is easter break and I’ve been a bit lax in posting here.  I’m sure the two of you mind.  Brain has been growing ever so steadily, and while fiction writing is temporarily on hold, fiction thinking is active quite a bit.  New things are coming on the horizon as well.  Possible Comics blog with Chris Tamarri (enter delusions of Comic’s grandeur).  Finishing up the school year, 9 weeks left, and the countdown has already begun.  Today, I’m regrouping, getting school stuff in order, watching people put windows in my house, and laundry.

 

What Fun.

 

AH ha, and this would be a fine time to announce tentative plans for Indian Head Comics Symposium, held out our house in late June.  People that read this will probably be welcome.  Official Invites will go out soon enough.  It’s going to be a personal little convention so to speak, with comics read, discussed, and possibly, if anyone bothers to have the time, a possible panel-like presentation.  Who knows.

Jeff Smith on MPR

MPR: Telling Fone Bone's epic story

I hate false emails

I'm the guy that will always check those e-mails if they are real or not. I enjoy Snopes.com.

Is hell exothermic or endothermic? The answer doesn't really matter, and to be honest, no student ever actually wrote that essay.

But it's still pretty damn interesting.

An Opinionated Network

Fox News: Not so fair and balanced?

An interesting Column (not article) on a report about bias in media.

Oh for FUCKS sake

Where in The Theory of Evolution does it say that god doesn't fucking exist?

Also, no one says we came from Monkeys. We have a common ancestor, kind of like Eve. I, however, am hoping I'm not related to Southern Baptist minister Terry Fox, even through the mythical Eve.

I hate everyone right now.

SuicideGirls > Words > Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison was interviewed at Suicidegirls.com. The following is an interesting "rosencrantz and guildenstern"-esque idea.

: "DRE: Why do comics enthrall you so much?

GM: Magic. It was always really fascinating to me that Superman was so much older than me and yet I could come along and write adventures with Superman in them and add to his life story. Then I could die and Superman would keep going, with other people writing stories to keep him alive. He's more real than I am because he has a longer lifespan and more influence, so this notion of the 'real' 2-dimensional world of the comics and what it had to say to the 'real' 3-dimensional world of non-fictional people. That really connected with me in a big way and helped me grapple with big ideas about the universe and life and death. I wanted to really 'make contact' with that world and bargain with its inhabitants. I saw it as the lynchpin of my magic. The comic universes are living breathing alternate worlds we can visit. And, if we're lucky enough to be comic book writers we get to play directly with the inhabitants and environments of the 2nd dimension. I wanted to travel in those worlds. By the time I was doing The Invisibles I had gotten past the idea of just putting a drawing of myself in a comic, as I did in Animal Man. I wanted to treat the story like a real continuum. I wanted to really get involved with the comic, in the two dimensional surface of the comic itself and at the point of interface where 2-d becomes 3-d and then touches 4-d. I wanted to see if I could exchange places with a comic book character, so I made myself look like King Mob, and started to have adventures so I would have stuff to write about. I wasn't blowing up military installations or killing Japanese terrorists but I was running around the world in bunker boots and black vinyl, doing magic and meeting all these amazing girls who were actually getting off with King Mob's spirit in my body."

Homeless Man's Death Hits Fort Washington Area Hard

I remember eating at Roy Roger's once with my grandparents and the blanket man was in there. It's strange how strangers affect us. Even ones that (at least at the age of 10) we were often afraid of.

Comments Aside

I fell for it this time, and I've been party to it in the past. But now I have the ability to say my own part (which is ironic in it's own right).

I hate message boards.

But before i get started with that one, i realized that the Blog is close to the message board already.

I realize i also have a comment system on this blog, which is more like a message board.

I realize i contradict myself.

"Very well, I contradict myself."

Anywho.

I hate message boards I just spent some time looking at a message board on Newsarama, that was in regards to an article on the upcoming movie V for Vendetta. It's a great book, if not a bit slow (but then so was orwell). and the orwell reference is valid. It's 1984, but happier. But that still aint saying much.f

The article was obviously an opinion piece by one Rich Johnston, comic book gossip king (I love Lying in the Gutter. He expresses slanted opinions (no worse than michael moore) on issues of terrorism, the war on, and both the english and british govt. He brings them up in reference to the book, as the book shows what happens when people support a govt, that makes bad choices, and those bad choices spawn bad choices, ad nauseum.

Hobbes said that democracy will collapse on itself because sooner or later, people will be tired of being given choices and will cry out for someone to make decisions for them.

(Saying that always reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes strip in which the father has a fit in the grocery store because there are too many different types of Peanut Butter to choose from.)

From what I remember of the book, V for Vendetta happened much because of those decisions. When 9/11 occured, Kate was working at USAMRIID for an Iranian. He said it was sad, but the US has lived in peace for too long. And he had a good point. I believe it's a fair equation to say that Civil Rights are inversly proportional to National Security.

I think in the country, there is a distinct difference between the two (oddly, I'd assume that people that have less security issues, i.e. Joe Blow, in Nowhere USA is probably more on the Security side than Mr. I-Work-Next-To-The-World-Bank, Washington DC guy. I dont know why, that's another tangent for another time).

But I digress... So much i almost forgot what i was digressing about, and from.

This is where I throw my thoughts out there. partly because i enjyo going back and reading it and remembering and contemplating what i was thinking about last week, and two months ago. Secondly, if anyone wants to read them, they choose to. I have yet to figure out how to make people's homepages turn into this page.

Message boards are very specifically a public forum, and I think it's a by-product of freedom of speech that makes people think that we also care to hear what they have to say.

So i think this BLOG has managed to do what i intended it to. ALthough i hate the Message Boards, even though i sometimes fall for them. I realize their purpose. We have the right to say what we want, even if no one cares.

And no one does. But my god, at least we can.

Posts Disappear

It would appear a rather large rant post i had about message boards and such has disappeared into the ether...

I liked that one to.

Tomorrow Is my birthday, quarter of a century, so I still feel young, but there is something on the horizon. Spring break in two weeks, how nice.

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Thomas Hobbes : A Short Biography

Thomas Hobbes : A Short Biography

I think it was Hobbes that said that thing that was in my long rant. I am now fascinated with him as well. I love how these work.

V for Vendetta

V For Vendetta will soon be a movie by the Matrix boys, with Natalie Portman. It's a loverly story of a freedom fighter/terrorist in the guise of Guy Fawkes. This website has some information on Guy Fawkes

I now want to go back to London on Bonfire Night.

"It broke him down when they took him away from his family and all his friends," said Frank Walker, an older fighter from Turpin's Philadelphia gym. "They took him out of reality and put him in a reality show. They took a real person and made him into a character."

from In Reality, A Tragedy for Boxer

Death of course is horrible, particularly when it is suicide. It adds insult to injury if you just happened to be on a soon to debut reality show. but...

If you sign up for a tv show, even if it has "reality" in it, do not expect TV to do anything but make you into a character. No matter how "real" you are, you become TV. No matter what they do TV is not real. You want to prove it, just get a video camera and put it into anyone's face. See what happens.

Bored Guy Redoes Romance Covers

Longmire does Romance Novels

Charlie showed me this Hi-Lar-E-Us website.

Worst album covers ever

Museum of bad album covers: the worst album covers ever!

delusions of grandeur

Every once in awhile, normally while looking at famous people’s blogs, I have brief delusions of grandeur, and imagine being written about in a very casual way, by people that are “famous” that I admire.  Laurenn Mccubbin saying “he’s really quite genius” or Warren Ellis telling people to check out some latest work of mine because I’m mad or something.

 

Today, within the past five minutes, I had one but it did not feel at all good.  I imagine it’s due to a sense of realization of what I was doing.

 

School was excellent today, and I’m beginning or continuing to feel that this is really going out into the ether.  Where as my last blog was read by a select few, this is read by myself and my wife, which makes it all the more interesting. 

 

I think I’m having horrible brain demons being born again.  I can feel them dwelling in my hypothalamus, and they grow like cancer until I explode..

 

Things seems so strange recently.  A student told me I was one of her desert island people, as I have interesting stories to tell, and several students tell me they miss me after weekends and days off.  I understand its’ largely high school stuff, but still.

 

You’d think I’d realize these are compliments.  I worry I take too many things too lightly, and is start to realize this when I speak in front of people I’m less acquainted with.

 

There are people that just don’t get me.

 

Ok… I paused long enough that I lost my train, and have found other enjoyable diversions.

Quote of the day

“In other news: Jesus Quit.”

It's like I'm a reporter.

This is the actual text (translated) from "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003." Apparently this has been an ongoing thing for several years. I must start paying more attention.

Human Rights Report on US Released

This one isn't from the USA-Hating Liberal Commie Rag.

China Says U.S. Has Double Standard on Rights

I worry when China is saying this to us.(washingtonpost.com)

God and Darwin

Fun with Intelligent Design (an old article i want to archive here)

An accidental almost-Haiku by a student

The speaker and those in attendance expect

To witness death.  A Fly flew by_

Morrison on Superman

Grant Morrison, one of my top three favorite writers in the field of comical books is going to be writingSuperman later this year. I think his ideas of mythology in the super hero world is really rather interesting, and a lot of his ideas have been influencing my own current fiction writing (i know it's stalled, i'm trying).

Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty for Juveniles

If you can't execute a Teenager, who can you execute these days?