Neil Gaiman won the 2007 Jim Henson Creativity Honor. A completely meaningless award, but one that makes me happy nonetheless.

Things that make today a good day already:

Joss is making a new show. Starring Faithy-Schmaithy. This is the part where Siobhan gets very excited.

Someone more talented than I am carved a pumpkin to look like Death.


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...also, if anyone wants a pair of Cain and Abel bookends, name your price.

*pet*

*petpetpet*

"g00glyeyes*

*dopeygrin*

Soon...

Hey, I didn't know that Berke Breathed had revived Lola Granola for his Opus strip! That's kinda cool. Sorry, I'm an old school Bloom County fan, despite its early tendencies to rip off Doonesbury. (Rhyming couplets about Caspar Weinberger? What's not good about that?)

Also, all humor involving leprechauns and underpants is inherently funny.


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So. I've realized something that was cut from the fifth movie that's going to backfire in the seventh.

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Tower Records recently filed for bankruptcy, again, and this time their stores are actually going out of business. I have a real soft spot for Tower Records. Unlike many music nerds, I did not learn about indie rock by going to some tiny store, flipping through vinyl and having some grungy clerk tell me about Television or XTC. I learned about ( Read more... )

I've added the newest Doonesbury book, "The War Years", to my books sidebar on Vox. It is actually just a compilation of two earlier books, "Peace Out Dawg" and "Got War", but it's all nice and hardcovery and shiny shiny. I like buying the Doonesbury books when they come out in larger format, as it...well, it just looks nicer on my shelf, and I ( Read more... )

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stella mccartney is designing a shirt with an r. crumb cartoon on it. this might be better than those ones with the horse's head. certainly better than the pineapples.

p.s.: these "ist" blogs are going nuts! there's a "londonist" now?