Labor Day links.

* An oral history of Art Spiegelman's seminal alternative comic RAW, in two parts. Have I really never used the Art Spiegelman tag before? (via)

* Amusing Amazon review of Dollhouse.

* If you feel like you missed the boat on speculative realism and want to know what everybody is talking about, Larval Subjects says the Wikipedia entry is, as of today, a good place to start.

* Best of Wikipedia directs our attention to the mystery of the Bloop.

* Daily Kos goes deep inside White House plans to indoctrinate your children into European-style communofascism.

* Another post on status update activism.

* Then and Now with Goofus and Gallant.

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

The Daily Show got literary last night, which I always wholeheartedly approve. Their bit on Presidents Goofus and Gallant was good too...

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Scumdog Million-Hairs

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Dial B for Blog, once again drawing closer to its final issue, celebrates Goofus and Gallant.

Fair enough, though Gallant's hand appears to be slightly radioactive.



It seems unreasonable to hold Goofus responsible for this.



Gallant is a quisling. Only Goofus has revolutionary consciousness.

See also one of the best McSweeney's pieces ever, "Goofus, Gallant, Rashomon."

Alex, high-school teacher of Goofus:
Goofus had a top-notch bullshit detector. Most teenagers think they have one, but his was the real thing, and I'm one of the few teachers who can relate to it. I introduced him to Kerouac, Bukowski, Burroughs. He acted enthusiastic about writing a paper in which they interacted. But it turned out to be seven pages of ... well, I was one of the characters in the scene, which was extremely graphic and not what we agreed on.