Amanda Palmer is in town tonight, the few tickets I can find are eighty bucks, and I like her but I don't like her eighty bucks worth but I know I might if I saw how awesome she actually is live because of how everybody's been raving about her live show because half my f-list has seen her live including my ex so that's a thing in of itself and they ( Read more... )

Did anyone read NIGHTWING this week? nymphgalatea, I'm looking in your direction. I was hoping to bitch about this on scans_daily, but those Harvey-centric pages weren't scanned and I have serious comic discussion blue balls here.

Also, here's my (revised) take on how I'd have written DARK REIGNNORMAN OSBORN: Let me tell you how it's going to be ( Read more... )

It's official. Seattle gives me pinkeye. Or at least, something here at Edd's house does. Every time I've come to visit over the past year, bam! Pinkeye. What the hell.

Comics this week hurt my soul. Like, watch this: Marvel's DARK REIGN # 1? FINAL CRISIS # 5? Ow, my soul! See?

On the plus side, there's SECRET SIX # 4. Bane and Scandal are ( Read more... )

Okay. Look, Mr. Bendis... I know everyone considers your particular style of comic book dialogue to be "fresh" and "hyper-realistic" and all; even though while that's technically true, all your characters speak with the same fucking voice--a stuttering, broken-sentence-riddled cluttering Mamet-on-crack patois, fattening six-part stories that could ( Read more... )

( Goddamnit. I shouldn't have read the book of FIRST BLOOD before seeing the movie version. )

When Santa Claus passes out in Latveria, who oh who will be able to take over and save Christmas? SANTA DOOM, of course!Seriously, though this just sank in: this is the first Christmas I'll have spent with my mother since I was five. I always spent it with Dad, since he didn't have anyone else, and because I didn't want to ruin Christmas by ( Read more... )

So you're saying I just missed a Broadway production of Anthony Burgess' translation of CYRANO DE BERGERAC starring Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Sarandon as Comte de Guiche?

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CURSE YOU, RICHARDS!!!!!!!This is what I get for not following the Broadway and off-Broadway schedules. Between the increasing ticket prices, the long commute ( Read more... )

(And here, I channel my inner Stephen Colbert. I'm genuinely sad that he couldn't have gotten a little further, but not surprised. That said, I think he's actually opening up some serious discussion about our political process, which is the far more important thing than him actually running for President. $35,000 to register as a Republican ( Read more... )