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1. I've posted a bit about Master & Commander lately, and I'm tickled to find out that there will be a chapter-by-chapter reread of the series taking place at
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[Setting:  A ROOM.  It looks somewhat like a waiting room:  featureless and filled with uncomfortable chairs.  The walls are lined with television screens showing various superheroes in action.  A blond woman in an eggplant-colored sweater slouches on one of the chairs, her posture revealing that she's been here a while.  She watches the screens:  ( Read more... )

--Kings of Convenience is a Norwegian band that has some haunting, reflective music. Despite the wonderful title, "My Ship Isn't Pretty" isn't exactly a shippy song, but I think it can be taken a lot of different ways. They don't have an "official" video, but the one below is pretty nice.

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--"Let's Be Friends Again" is a webcomic that does a lot of comic-book related things and is often funny and sometimes biting. I really liked this little comic about the creative differences between the writer and artist of the comic:


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--Thanks so much for the Valentine's Day v-gifts!  *hugs all around*

--Went out to dinner with damos and a couple of his cousins recently, and his cousins ordered whitebait pizza for all of us.  That would be pizza with teeny tiny little fishies on it!


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1.  Fic rec!  Machine of Death is a fascinating worldbuilding anthology in which Ryan North, author of Dinosaur Comics (along with some other cool webcomic creators) posited one small thing:  what if there was a machine that took a sample of your blood and then predicted, with 100% accuracy, your death?  They invited submissions to a book of short ( Read more... )

November is always the worst month of the year for me--so many meetings, so much work, and there's almost always some kind of crisis.  November apparently got started early this year, which means I'm awfully low on time to post or write (*sobs*).   So here is a quick list of a few things that are making me happy, just to remind myself that they're ( Read more... )

I'm not usually one to share commercials, but this Japanese Coke commercial is too cute not to.  It features lots of kids dressed up as DC heroes--featuring lots of Bats and Supers (boy and girl) and a couple of the most adorable Wonder Women ever.  The titles match up with the song's themes--my (probably error-riddled) translation follows:

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twinsarein is organizing a Superman/Batman Big Bang (an exchange where authors trying to write long stories and artists then draw art to match the completed stories) this year!  There are two "tiers" in this one--7,500-word minimum and 10,000-word minimum.

The links below the banner are quite neat and extensive, but I'll point you to two major ones:  the ( Read more... )