February 2012
12 posts
Reality as failed state - tl;dr version (I like...
steelweaver:
So maybe what we have today are not problems, but meta-problems.
It is very useful to confirm our understanding with others, to meet with fellow humans – preferably face-to-face – strength flows from this.
However, disquiet remains - no pre-catastrophic change of course seems in any way likely. What we might call ‘Fabian’ environmentalism has failed.
Occasionally a scientist...
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2012 Is Getting Rad For Comics.
There’s too much amazing news out of Image Comic Expo tonight for my groggy little sleepy head to fully process. I mean, we already knew about Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ “Saga.” We had already heard about “The Manhattan Projects” and “Secret.”
And tonight, we get the news that there’s another volume of “Phonogram” coming,...
Woman in Comedy: A really scary thing happened to...
gabydunn:
Part of me thinks it’s too soon to be writing about this because I don’t think I’ve completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I’m still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled up inside, but maybe this can start a helpful discussion in terms of women and comedy.
Last night, I was...
i thought it best if i cried: Tumblr and online... →
yanbasque:
Tumblr as a platform for activism is extremely problematic.
First of all, what does it mean to be a social justice activist on the internet? I think a lot of us who post about social justice issues consider what we do here a form of activism, either on its own or as an extension of our so-called…
Some good points here, particularly in the comments about tone. I know from ...
Empiricism, Crankiness And Interpretation.
A common theme in my life right now seems to be demanding evidence to support claims. It’s been going on for a few weeks now, and I feel like a broken record because it seems like I’m constantly telling someone that an assertion of fact must be supported by evidence.
Last week, my little girl had to read a one-page handout on Helen Keller, list 10 facts from the handout, and then...
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Creators, Corporations And People; Or, To Clear Up...
As I get older, I don’t find myself as outraged by corporations’ behavior as I once did. When I was young, all of the appalling behavior was new, or had been recently discovered (or recently discovered by me), and I couldn’t believe that the corporations engaged in such activity - and the people employed by them - weren’t broken up and thrown in jail in less time than it...
BEFORE LEBOWSKI
bowtiemoustache:
Alejandro Arbona Officially Announces ‘Before Lebowski’
This summer, Alejandro Arbona will publish all-new comic books expanding on the acclaimed LEBOWSKI universe.
As highly anticipated as they are controversial, the seven inter-connected prequel mini-series will build on the foundation of the original LEBOWSKI, sooner on up the trail, in years prior to the early ’90s and our...
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Who Watches The People Watching The Watchmen...
Ah, rainy Saturday morning, making my bones and connective tissue ache like a wistful glance in “The Notebook” …
So. Anything interesting happen recently? I wasn’t paying attention.
Oh, right. “Before Watchmen.” I thought I missed something.
So after boiling the entire kerfuffle down to core elements, my thoughts on it are pretty simple.
I don’t...
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Crossovers, Prequels And All The Crap We Claim To...
Complaining about comics crossovers, tie-ins and events on the Internet is a bit like muttering about the price of gas or politicians - everyone does it, things get worse and the cycle repeats.
“But why?” cry the comics fans doing the complaining. “We tell DC and Marvel that we don’t like these things, that we don’t even want them! Why do they keep doing it?”
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