A few more links for today, as my brain is otherwise useless.
* io9 has your Disney/Marvel crossovers in the other direction. I too am looking forward to the Dark Mermaid Saga.
* Again with the Comics has scans from Chris Ware's extremely rare "Floyd Farland: Citizen of the Future." Get them before the C&D.
* Who's ruining air travel now?
* Biden breaks down 2010.
* Today in our awesome post-racial society.
* And could Jennifer's Body actually not be all that bad? Feministe reports.
Monday, September 21, 2009
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Labels: 2010, airplanes, Chris Ware, comics, Disney, feminism, Flord Farland, Jennifer's Body, Joe Biden, Marvel, Megan Fox, shlock, This Modern World
Monday, September 07, 2009
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.

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Labels: Amazon, Art Spiegelman, Dollhouse, European-style communofascism, Goofus and Gallant, politics, speculative realism, status update activism, the Bloop, This Modern World, Wikipedia
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Post-apocalyptic moves vs. post-apocalyptic reality.
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Labels: apocalypse, politics, science fiction, the economy, This Modern World, Tom Tomorrow
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
"That's some catch, that catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
If it weren't for Keith Olbermann's excellent Milo Minderbinder reference, this Countdown segment on the granting of Catch-22-esque immunity to Blackwater would be one of the most depressing things I've ever seen. It makes me feel, well, like this dog.
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3:34 PM
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Labels: America, Blackwater, Catch-22, mercenaries, politics, This Modern World