So I finally made it out to The Hunger Games today, while C went Avenging. I was spoiled by the things mentioned in that article I read that I don't remember where it was from [plus a parody], but that wasn't my primary concern. What struck me more were two things:

• SHAKY CAM and
• BLUNT METAPHOR. IN THE FACE.

On the former, I feel mildly vindicated that ( Read more... )

Things have been going... lately. I don't think there's an adjective/adverb that fits in the gap in the prior sentence--things have just... been ( Read more... )

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I'm a bit braindead because I spontaneously decided to spend all afternoon walking [not exactly intentionally]: After some Jehovah's Witnesses came by and tried to sell me on a free Bible study to help me learn "my version" of the Bible* [I do have a "My parents made me go to church and all I got was this Student's Edition Bible" copy], I thought, ( Read more... )

I have two things I don't want ( Read more... )

So, prompted by the usual stream of consciousness that led to mentioning how calikat linked to this article on FB [the link is on FB, not the article], the topic of The Ex came up, which was an interesting discussion. All the advice columns say that it's bad for a relationship to constantly bad-mouth [or even sweet-talk!] The Ex, but our discussion was ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I wandered around Olde Towne and finally peeked in a thrift shop there, wondering if I'd find anything remotely relevant to my interests by sheer chance. I did! A Night at the Roxbury CD for $1 XD and a grey hoodie for $2 [tho marked $5]. I figured, well, for $2, I could still futz with one or the other of the jackets and still have a ( Read more... )

I missed this for my prior post, but apparently there was some awesome trolling going on WRT the House's SOPA debates XD While I'm a little confused as to how exactly he would've been able to work in the exact lyrics [it's sort of a "conversation" song], Polis gets mad props for pulling such a clearly transparent stunt ( Read more... )

Once again I didn't make midnight for comic, but whatever. Read all your comics after 6a EST and they're bound to be posted by then ( Read more... )

Anecdotally from those who have made it work, full-time web comicking deals largely with merchandising, and not just in book sales. [Prolly a duh, but I'm spelling it all out in "as record" terms.] I don't have exact numbers on how profitable X comic is at Y convention, but at least one artist has said conventions are a less significant portion of ( Read more... )