I don't really see girls who like "Twilight" as the reason the convention is being "stolen" away. Really, the bigger issue is this: media conglomerates have taken comic book culture and "Andy Warholized" it, presenting us with mass-market, mass-produced, highly vetted versions of that culture's icons. But not only that, the conglomerates have appropriated the comic book/"fan" community's mechanism of promotion & dissemination of information: the convention. So that's the Icons and the Mechanism being appropriated.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Comics at a Comic Con?
Valerie D'Orazio thinks about the place of comic book retailers at the big comic conventions:
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
We Are Parents Again!
Mom and baby girl, Rowan Kysa Taylor, are happy and healthy!
Stats:
- Born at 2:57 PM PCT
- 8lbs 10oz
- 20 1/8 inches long
- Adorable
UPDATE: Now with photo!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Trailer
Where the Wild Things Are trailer
They're not allowing embedding and I really don't want to go searching for an embeddable version.
They're not allowing embedding and I really don't want to go searching for an embeddable version.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Like Braile on the Internet?
There is something both wonderful and absurd about the fact that this exists. I haven't listened to any, but I've heard that they are not exactly... uh... sexy, shall we say? Now I'm fully distracted by speculating whether this is a service that is actually interesting to blind people or if there is some other subset of humans for whom this is titillating.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Like a BOSS
NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
Potentially accurate, though I've never seen a real boss send his own faxes.
(Thanks to The Caffeinatrix!)
Potentially accurate, though I've never seen a real boss send his own faxes.
(Thanks to The Caffeinatrix!)
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