It is traditional to open with a joke - so here you go. The Mother Of All 9/11 Posts. Watch out especially for the white Flavor Flav imitator and the 4chan contributions in the "deliberately offensive" category.

This post, on the other hand, is going to be more in the vein of Jon Schwarz's "Today Is The Anniversary Of An Enormous Opportunity." ( Read more... )

On Sunday I watched The Hurt Locker, and shortly thereafter In The Loop. Now, while these are both good movies and you should watch them, you should not watch them close together because of the peculiar alchemy they have in combination. Independently, I would say that Hurt Locker is about .6 Requiem For A Dreams (standard measure of movie ( Read more... )

I did a fair bit of reading last weekend.

Crooked Little Vein: Got about 50 pages in. It's very Warren Ellisy, but has two major flaws. One is that, like Desperation Jones, it has the distinct flavor of "hey I found a cool thing in my research and I want to write about it!" It's gratuitously scuzzy and grimy and filthy. In Transmetropolitan, ( Read more... )

I want to extract one thing from Israel's current round of bombing the fuck out of Gaza and examine it: a prank call. It's a bit bland in terms of content, but in execution, it's absolutely golden ( Read more... )

I know that a fair passel of people reading this are going to be headed to a convention at the end of this month. The folks at Chèz Nielsen Hayden have advice for you if you plan on entertaining at the convention - it's not new advice, but it's good advice, and deserves spreading around. Distilling general prudence from the How To Throw A Good ( Read more... )

Some recent inputs congealed into remembering Infernokrusher, the literary movement that -


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I see that there was some excitement last night.  That deserves its own post.  I didn't keep up with the election results in real time: I did what I could (some basic GOTV work) before the election, I voted, and that was that until the next day.  Frankly, watching the results come in is pretty lackluster as an excuse for a party, so usually my ( Read more... )