Days late/thalers short as ever
So, AFIA due to RL busyness - work, health, technical difficulties (not serious ones, just a series of complications) - as well as my running-late effort to get something together for Shakespeare's birthday and deciding to make that my International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day entry as well - and then radically changing my concept halfway through requiring a lot more work on it than I had anticipated plus research - and thus not staying au courant with the blogosphere, occasional skims and comments but mostly just thinking "yes, I could stay up and try to catch up on my online reading, but my eyes hurt from staring at a screen all day, my ankle hurts from having missed the evening bus due to its 20-minute random stop time, there's a beer in the fridge calling my name and a pillow with a cat on it, this is not a difficult choice I'm afraid," and so I missed quite some blowups it looks like.
Wow. Sheesh. (And gyah for good measure.)
I've got a whole long list of posts, from a whole bunch of book reviews (lots of glurge, some good) to "More Multicultural Manchester" (Arabic-language billboards for income tax help! Authentic fresh samosas at the Halal Kebab shop near the comic store!) to The Theory of Humor-Relativity to a cartoon I'm working on about John Ashcroft's defense of his government's torture policies which he was a part of, to a "click" moment (not quite a thunderbolt one) that gave me the key into how Authoritarian Libertarian is not really a contradiction in terms, to a post for ktempest's Carnival of Allies that I'm trying to get done in time entitled "Things One Cannot Walk Away From", to another allegorical fable this time about environmentalism and climate change (actually two of them), and one about the winked-at quasi-official-status of the recently-raided FLDS entitled "No Such Thing As A Benevolent Patriarchy" from the perspective of someone raised to defend the patriarchy under the milder guise of what I have just coined as "chivalrism," but that last one is going to end up covering a bit more contemporary territory than I had originally outlined, I can see! Altho' "Things One Cannot Walk Away From" might have to come first, we'll see which one ends up more coherent first.
But for the moment, here is my IPSTP entry, That Sonnet, in a 400KB PDF file, for download and print (it should fit on both US letter and A4 paper without a problem) and appropriately enough, the metadata at the bottom contains hyperlinks to relevant sites. (It was supposed to have a Deco/Nouveau clip-art illo of either a ship or stars from some of my Dover collections, which would have been a lot easier and quicker. But while I was working on the type layout, I realized that there were even more maritime references incorporated into the structure of the poem than I had noticed before, and thinking about the whole intellectual tone of it, I realized that the truly appropriate, subversive, remix-reveal illo would be one of an early-model GPS (English construction, but Arabic invention and design, truly open-source code and UI!), and since there weren't any good free ones I knew of, I had to make it (with a little help from the web) and...you know how it goes. This is all very quick-and-dirty, I could spend days on the drawing alone, but sometimes you just have to get it out there. Anyway, enjoy it, and I promise I will have some serious real writing by Monday (EST).
Wow. Sheesh. (And gyah for good measure.)
I've got a whole long list of posts, from a whole bunch of book reviews (lots of glurge, some good) to "More Multicultural Manchester" (Arabic-language billboards for income tax help! Authentic fresh samosas at the Halal Kebab shop near the comic store!) to The Theory of Humor-Relativity to a cartoon I'm working on about John Ashcroft's defense of his government's torture policies which he was a part of, to a "click" moment (not quite a thunderbolt one) that gave me the key into how Authoritarian Libertarian is not really a contradiction in terms, to a post for ktempest's Carnival of Allies that I'm trying to get done in time entitled "Things One Cannot Walk Away From", to another allegorical fable this time about environmentalism and climate change (actually two of them), and one about the winked-at quasi-official-status of the recently-raided FLDS entitled "No Such Thing As A Benevolent Patriarchy" from the perspective of someone raised to defend the patriarchy under the milder guise of what I have just coined as "chivalrism," but that last one is going to end up covering a bit more contemporary territory than I had originally outlined, I can see! Altho' "Things One Cannot Walk Away From" might have to come first, we'll see which one ends up more coherent first.
But for the moment, here is my IPSTP entry, That Sonnet, in a 400KB PDF file, for download and print (it should fit on both US letter and A4 paper without a problem) and appropriately enough, the metadata at the bottom contains hyperlinks to relevant sites. (It was supposed to have a Deco/Nouveau clip-art illo of either a ship or stars from some of my Dover collections, which would have been a lot easier and quicker. But while I was working on the type layout, I realized that there were even more maritime references incorporated into the structure of the poem than I had noticed before, and thinking about the whole intellectual tone of it, I realized that the truly appropriate, subversive, remix-reveal illo would be one of an early-model GPS (English construction, but Arabic invention and design, truly open-source code and UI!), and since there weren't any good free ones I knew of, I had to make it (with a little help from the web) and...you know how it goes. This is all very quick-and-dirty, I could spend days on the drawing alone, but sometimes you just have to get it out there. Anyway, enjoy it, and I promise I will have some serious real writing by Monday (EST).