Single Dog Dare

We’re back down to a single dog again, as Ginger has now gone back to her house in Augusta this morning. Theoretically this makes life much easier, but until Koga shakes whatever is giving him explosive diarrhea, it will be tough to say that life is “good.” Bad scene, my friends.
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Thoughts on Selling Out

My motto on selling out is an old chestnut on this blog and podcast by now. For the record it is “There is no such thing as selling out, only selling too cheap.” In my most recent podcast I played the clip of Henry Rollins on the subject which has fleshed out my thinking some. [...]

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Minicomics Subscription Idea

One of the tangible results I get from listening to the Indie Spinner Rack podcast is that my interest in mini-comics has been rekindled. I have a number of these, and I used to pick them up from people at conventions. I’ve got some of the old Matt Feazell Cynicalman comics, some Steeldragon Press comics [...]

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A Productivity Experiment

Just for a wag, I’m trying something different. I brought my laptop with me to work, and I’m now typing this from Big D’s BBQ restaurant, right by where they are building the Hard Rock theme park. In fact, I’m looking at the construction office out the window.
I’m offline here and will upload later. I’ve [...]

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Grand Strand Bloggers Meetup June 2007

Grand Strand Bloggers Meetup June 2007

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Our meetup was fun. In attendance were Andre Pope, Chris Yale, Roger Yale, and myself. A quirk of scheduling left out a few people but the four of us had a good time. Special thanks to Andre, [...]

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My Last Word on the Sopranos

I’m going to make one more post about the final episode of the Sopranos and then cash out of this discussion forever. A lot of what I’m saying and why I’m saying it is adapted from a post I made to the Nicola Griffith mailing list on the subject. It probably goes without saying that [...]

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EGC Clambake for June 23, 2007 - “Sellouts of the Modern West”

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 23, 2007.
I play a song from Chris Yale; I give a crazy dog house update; I play a quote of Henry Rollins discussing the notion of musicians “selling out” by letting their music used in commercials; I take exception with [...]

 
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Dogs and Podcasts

Sometimes Google Ads are really good at catching the gestalt of a blog. As I loaded up the page to look at Mike Dunn’s recent comment on a dog post, this is what I saw. Dogs and podcasts. Yep, that’s pretty much what my last week has been.

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Double Dog Dare

I wish I had thought of the title as a description of my current dog predicament, but that honor goes to Paul Fischer in a comment on here. We’re three weeks in to our dog sitting of my mom’s dog, as well as almost the same length of time since we have adopted Koga. For [...]

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Palmetto State Roller Girls in the Paper

Today there is a story in the Myrtle Beach paper about the Palmetto State Roller Girls. It’s OK but what is really notable is that someone I know is right up front in the photo. The story seems pretty focussed on how white collar and/or academic most of the team is.
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Grand Strand Blogger Meetup NEW DAY - This Sunday

I pulled the plug on the original date for the Grand Strand Blogger meetup because for one I had dog care issues and for another, it was unbearably poor form to hold it on Father’s Day. Even though no one seemed to mind, I just didn’t like the idea so we scooched it one week [...]

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EGC Clambake for June 19, 2007 - “Meet Modemac”

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 19, 2007.
I play a song from Kirkendahl Voyd; I air the featured interview with notable Subgenius Modemac; I play my first Subgenius cutup and another song from Kirkendahl Voyd and head off to nurse my slack.
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Thomas Ravenel Has My Tax Money and A Bag of Coke (Allegedly)

Last fall Thomas Ravenel was elected as the treasurer of my state of South Carolina. Now he has been indicted on charges of cocaine possession with intent to distribute. In fact, here is the indictment. That was a pretty quick fall from grace. There are a few interesting angles on this. One I found via [...]

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Nine Firefighters Dead in Charleston

This is truly horrible. A fire started in a furniture store in the Charleston area last evening, and a roof collapse left nine of the firefighters dead. This is the stuff of nightmares. Sympathies to all the families and brother firefighters of the fallen men. It takes a special kind of person to run into [...]

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Retirement, Money, Pleasure

Here’s a few things that feel vaguely related to me. The first is Garrick van Buren’s response to me about retirement and money. He picks two points he disagrees with me on, neither one of which I think is actually related to what I think. I don’t even quite understand #1, where he points out [...]

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The Spirit Movie

I’ll admit it. I’m very nervous about Frank Miller directing a film of The Spirit. I really hope that he manages to pull it off and keep true to the spirit of the source material. I fear it, though. It can’t possibly be worse than the 1980’s TV movie adaptation with Sam Jones. I saw [...]

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Podcasting Use Case for Comics

Here’s an example of what podcasting can do that normal media just couldn’t. Derek Coward turned me on to Indie Spinner Rack. In a recent show, they had some correspondents at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo who did a freakish level of coverage of the Howard E. “Gene” Day Prize. They recorded the [...]

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Normal Temperature

It really bugs me when TV weatherman talk about the “normal temperature” for today. The temperature they are talking about would never be the “normal” temperature, unless they are talking about the most commonly observed one. Average is not the same as “normal”. You could plausibly have an average temperature that has never actually been [...]

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Done the Impossible

I finished watching Serenity and watched the Done the Impossible documentary at lunch this week. It’s interesting and pretty well done, but I sure would have liked to have heard more from the actors and crew than the fans. It feels like it’s about 3/4 fan, 1/4 pro focussed and I’d rather see that about [...]

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SubGenius on Wikiality

Over on the Stephen Colbert Wikiality site (his parody of Wikipedia, sort of), there is a funny article on the Church of the SubGenius. I particularly dig the picture of Colbert in the Dobbshead configuration, labeled “SuperGenius.”
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