Monsters

Japanese Monsters by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance To The Radio

These guys are fantastic. Who thought you could make an Ian Curtis tune sound cheerful?

I Miss Mexico.

Hope you all had a happy 4th.

Oh, Science, I love you.

Get Started.

This has been everywhere, but you probably should still check it out if you like making stuff:

Merlin Mann on Getting Started.

(Warning: Language not for younger listeners or people who hate things that are funny.)

Longbox

Okay, I'm really really excited about this:

Longbox Unveiled

I hope this works out, I sincerely think it looks fantastic. Cross-platform digital comic reading, I can't get enough of that.

I should note that Rantz was really kind and helpful in his evaluations of my comic projects at SDCC last year, so there's another positive point. Give Rantz Hoseley your money.

Where've I Been?

I have no idea. It hasn't even occurred to me to blog for a while.

Working. Househunting. Writing. Not sleeping.

Any interesting thoughts I have seem to get dumped into my private notes. I've had a drought of share-worthy items and ideas for so long...

But I'll make more of an effort. That's all I'll commit to.

I thought this was interesting.

Visualizations usually drive me crazy, but I thought this was a good indicator of scale. I swear I'm not itching to become a financial blogger.

Formatting sorta fixed.

I'll mess with the comments later.

Format

Ugh, so the new youtube widescreen plugins are killing my blog template. Do I really want to update the blog? Really?

Seriously considering hosting my own wordpress blog rather than fighting with blogspot.

Kinda not in the mood for this.

Okay, where were you 10 years ago?

Can I get a college do-over? How much frustration would this have saved me in school?

Disneyfication

I didn't know how I originally felt about this, but I've now decided that it's incredibly brilliant.

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

I've watched these movies for years, as a child and with my own children. And, well, the reuse subtracted nothing from my experience. Which is a relief, really. You don't have to reinvent the wheel every time to make art. It's okay to rip the wheels off your old jalopy and slap them on the new one.

Okay.

I've got a to-do list a mile long, and two weeks to knock everything out before I fly to Virginia.

I think I can do this. I just need to grow an extra pair of arms, replace my legs with tank treads, and carry an unloaded gun to threaten anyone who gets in my way.

Yeah. Yeah, I can do this.

Aaaaaaand Added to My Amazon Wishlist...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I hate me some Jane Austen, but I love me some zombies.

Sheep Pong

I hate sheep with a passion, they're the dumbest creatures I've ever encountered, but this is pretty darn cool.

Google's Message to the Phone Monarchs

Run.

Seriously, if you've been running a sleazy over-billing telecom, now's the time to get moving. Folks are going to start building guillotines once they get a taste of how their phones should work.

And how they should have been working all along.

Run, you maggots. Run.

Satori

Today's Abominable Charles Christopher is too good not to share.

Charts and Graphs

If you're not reading Gary North's essays, then heaven help you.

Oh. Hell. Yes.

There are just too many things that are right about this music video from Zombie Zombie.

Research to Improve Your Life...

In honor of Ricardo Montalban's passing:

I am Number One.

Patrick McGoohan passed away.

Never met the guy, but he's one of the people on a very short list that fundamentally changed the way I think.

"Once Upon A Time" was an hour of drama that only McGoohan could have written and performed. I don't anyone else who could have done it, or anyone who would want to. I have a hard time coming up with any other writers in television who have challenged me so directly. Rod Serling, maybe. Maybe Aaron Sorkin. But they had years, multiple seasons of working at their arguments. The Prisoner took only 17 episodes to shake me to the core.

The Prisoner asked the questions that we ask ourselves when no one else is looking. That's really what the show's about: who's watching us, and why?

Well, we are, and for no good reason.

It's the gutsiest show I've ever watched. Behind all the espionage, the paranoia, the double-crossing, the show was about having the guts to define yourself on your own terms. Who you are is nobody's business but your own.

Too many people know too much.

That's about all I can say about it.

Again, be seeing you.

The Music.

We broked it.

Songsmith channeling David Lee Roth .

You Have To.

You Have to Burn the Rope.

(Oh, and don't skip the end credits.)

Dear Internet:

Do I really need to have a Facebook account?

Really?

Princess Bride 20th Anniversary DVD Cover

Via BoingBoing:



That's some lovely cover design.

The Prisoner

AMC has the entire run of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner streaming online.



If you are a person, I recommend that you watch them.

Be seeing you.