The vasty fields of LiveJournal are ablaze with the smoking husks of half-a-thousand accounts and communities, all silenced in the wake of a kind of crusade against perceived indecency. Long story short, the powers-that-be at LiveJournal/Six Apart were approached by a group claiming to represent the best interests of children. Apparently, the threat had the …
One of the cooler constants in comics is the homage cover. A modern artist, seeing that another momentous occasion is impending in a superhero’s life, turns to the work of those who went before. And sometimes, the end result is smile-inducingly brilliant. In both covers, members of The Flash’s infamous Rogues Gallery loom threateningly over …
He’s not the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan, either. He’s just a guy — a lobbyist-turned-Senator-turned-actor. That’s it. Yesterday, I left a comment on this very subject on Peach Pundit, but in light of today’s news, it bears repeating. Thompson’s going to run. Of course, he is. For a short while, I thought that he …
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Contrary to recent controversy, it really can be. See? (Found first on MetaChat.)
I’m a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back into Music — except maybe when I find myself oddly alone in a quiet room with only a typewriter to strum on and a yen to write a song. Who knows why? Maybe I just …
It could be worse. We could be living in Waycross, where the forecast calls for smoke, smoke and smoke. Up here in Atlanta, we just get the leftovers. This is the kind of thing that I shouldn’t let myself ponder for long, because it is big and so far beyond what I can control. We …
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