Dan Conover Takes On The Newspapers
As someone who as seen the “journalists vs bloggers” debate iterated a few dozen times more than I really care to, I’m interested when new factors are put in either side of that equation. One thing I have noticed from the journalist side of this is that they tend to mention virtues of professional journalists [...]
Tags: danconover, investigativejournalism, xarkPlay Ball, CCU!
Wow, the brand new baseball season is off to a roaring start for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. In their sixth game of the season they upset the #3 North Carolina Tarheels 7 – 3. CCU is ranked #18 nationally and will probably move up from there. This might well be a great season. I can’t [...]
Tags: baseball, ccu, coastalcarolina, northcarolinaHow to REALLY Make Digital Comics
While I’m in the embedding mood, here is some work by a guy pushing the envelope with digital comics. I have to say that I found this the most compelling argument I’ve ever seen for the value of digital comics, and moreover it practices what it preaches. It actually out-McClouds Scott [...]
Tags: comics, digitalcomics, scottmccloud, ~balak01Porcupine Racetrack
Because my brother brought it up in comments on my previous post about funny TV shows, I have to agree that this is my favorite skit from any comedy show every, hands down. Yes, even above the Blue Oyster Cult “cowbell” sketch. The State masterfully assembles every cliche from the 30’s [...]
Tags: porcupineracetrack, sketchcomedy, thestateYour Favorite TV Comedy
Through Wednesday evening, the Large Hearted Boy blog is holding a contest. You can win The Complete Monty Pythons Flying Circus: Collectors Edition Megaset, and all you have to do is to name your favorite TV comedy. 320 comments in, I was the very first person to name the Ernie Kovacs show. That don’t seem [...]
Tags: largeheartedboy, montypythonsflyingcircusUmbrella Academy
I’ve heard a lot of recommendations for the Umbrella Academy comic book series. I read the first two issues of the Dallas miniseries this weekend and all I can say is “Wow!” I can’t remember the last time I had my socks so thoroughly knocked off out of nowhere. I also add my recommendation to [...]
Tags: comics, gabrielba, gerardway, umbrellaacademyTaming the Collection
I’ve been collecting comic books for approaching 40 years now and have amassed a few. While I’m currently working on organizing them and cataloging them online I have them spread out all over the floor of my home office. It is truly a mess, and it’s not like I enjoy having all this [...]
Tags: comicsMy Relationship with Google Viewed as Burn Notice
For the longest time I’ve been somewhere between nervous and terrified of the growing influence of Google. Any organization that feels the need to tell me that they are not evil probably ain’t really on the up and up. I used to not want to ever be logged in to a Google account and also [...]
Tags: burnnotice, googleWhat If Phelps Didn’t Apologize?
I have the joy of living about 100 miles from where Michael Phelps performed his now infamous pot smoking stint captured on film. It turns out that it will probably have been the most expensive bowl ever smoked. They normally cost, what, a dollar? Phelps’ bowl will have cost him millions of dollars.
Via Avedon Carol [...]
Firebug Lite for IE
Last night I had to do some work on the CREATE South website, fixing problems making it render funny on Internet Explorer. The first thing I did when I sat down to start was to google on what Firebug like things there are for IE. To my shock and pleasant surprise, you can get a [...]
Tags: firebug, internetexplorerEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 11, 2009 – “Manufacturing Joy”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for February 11, 2009. I play a song from Amy Ray and another from 3canal; I talk about the dichotomy of thinking of oneself as a happy person but not actually being happy that much; I discuss Poppy Z. Brite’s Liquor books; about joining the [...]
Tags: 3canal, amyray, dangerwoman, lizbaillie, poppyzbriteEGC Recording Tonight at 8:30 PM EST
I’m going to continue the experiment of recording my podcast and streaming it live. Tonight at 8:30 PM EST I’ll be recording and streaming it live via Ustream. In the immortal words of the philospher, “We’ll do it live!!!” Come join up, chat, and hear all the mistakes that never go out in the podcast [...]
Tags: podcastingNote to Online Retailers
If you have an online store with a shopping cart, it might make sense to do the work to make that shopping cart persistent. If someone spends 15 minutes filling that cart and then gets interrupted before they can finish up, comes back to it and finds the cart empty, they might just get pissed [...]
Political Thought of the Day
When I listen to Republicans talking about how unacceptable spending $1 trillion in America is, I would take them a lot more seriously if:
The national debt had not increased from $5 trillion to $10 trillion when Republicans ran all three branches of the government
Republicans had not been telling us over and over again for the [...]
Jonathan Hickman on the Marvel Podcast
Even as I get back into buying comics regularly, I’m still learning a lot about the state of the industry as it is today. I used to read the Comics Buyer’s Guide cover to cover ever week for many years. Nowadays I don’t even understand 2/3 of the things Marvel and DC are up to. [...]
Tags: comics, daredevil, ironman, jonathanhickman, marvelcomics, podcastingDear CVS Pharamacy
If you are going to lock up the colognes and perfume, and then have a sale on them, it should be predictable by you that people might want to buy some of them. When I went to the store at 38th Avenue and Highway 17 Bypass in Myrtle Beach at lunch today, and stood at [...]
RIP, Lux Interior
Lux Interior, lead singer of the Cramps is dead at age 62. The one time I saw the Cramps was one of the highest energy and craziest shows I ever attended. I’m in my early 40s now and forced to live in a world without Lux, Joe Strummer, Joey, Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone, Robert [...]
Tags: cramps, luxinteriorTables vs. CSS, Round 732
Over three years ago, I wrote a rant about the difficulties of using pure CSS for layout. That post got some Google traction and still slowly collects comments. Today via Signal vs Noise I saw another person saying much the same thing years on, that yes doing layout in pure CSS is more pure and [...]
Tags: cssLiz Baillie Minicomic of the Month
For a complete lark, I just joined the Liz Baillie Minicomic of the Month Club. It seems like an interesting experiment in spurring creativity, throwing a bone to an interesting artist and getting some good stuff in the bargain. I heard about this deal on Indie Spinner Rack #146 and on a whim I decided [...]
Tags: comics, indiespinnerrack, lizbaillie, minicomics
