I'd planned to visit Wondercon today, but I'm not really enthusiastic about it right now. I've got other things to say about comics, though.

Resonance FM interviewed Alan Moore, in three parts: 1, 2, & 3. I haven't had a chance to listen to this yet. (via mefi.)

Chris Ware talked at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln about his process; audio ( Read more... )

The title says it all. Er, mostly. The Cody's isn't the familiar, now-closed one; it's at 1730 Fourth St., & they offer a map to get there. It's further from BART than I thought.

If you're reading Civil War, that Marvel mini-series, you might enjoy a remix. Issues (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

It's full of in-character in-jokes.

Edit: Adding issues 4 & 7.

My bed is womblike.

Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000: People from that are doing Rifftrax now, extra commentary on various newer movies - like they had a higher budget before, & dropping the interstitial sketches. Anyway. They're doing it live tomorrow, Wednesday at 8pm at Cobb's. (Hm. It's $25.) There's a good chance it will be ( Read more... )

I think I'm finally over the flu that kept me from doing anything social since Thursday, which is frustrating & boring.

There's other stuff to post about, but Dave Barry's liveblogging 24.

John Hodgman's book, The Areas of My Expertise, is "witty, urbane, and completely out to lunch." It's amazingly random. It's seven or eight hours long. It's available from the US Itunes Store, so I've heard, until Christmas. Do this sooner rather than later. I'd heard it was Tuesday only, but I got it yesterday.

US Itunes store link

Keywords: Lemony Snicket, Gothic Archies, Stephin Merritt (from the Magnetic Fields)

If you're a fan of any of these guys, & you're in the SF Bay Area, you might want to see them perform tomor - er, Sunday afternoon. ( Details follow. )

Don't forget to vote!

Anyone else thinking about going to the Pet Shop Boys show tonight?

I just heard that a couple of local museums are participating in Free Museum Day - California Academy of Sciences (temporarily downtown), the Exploratorium (in the Marina), & the Museum of Craft and Folk Art (also downtown ( Read more... )

At least two friends are Bowie fans. What do you think of embedding video here?