User:	jkcarrier
	Date:	2008-05-16 09:07
	Subject:	Glorianna updated
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"RUN!"

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/jkcarrier/glorianna

	User:	jbknowles
	Date:	2008-05-16 07:00
	Subject:	Friday 5-ness and a wee request
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1. It's HERE!


Yes, those are my pj's in the background. It's early but I couldn't sleep. I've actually been up for quite a while.

Anyway, this was one of my and my sister's FAVORITE books. My sister had the whole thing memorized. For years I've wanted to get a copy, but the only ones available were over $200! Now, they've been re-issued and two copies came in the mail yesterday (one for my sister, of course)! I still knew the opening lines by heart:

Jennifer knew
As well as you
That everything has its place,
But she just didn't care
a whit,
a bit,
So her room was a real disgrace!

Check out the end papers:


When I showed them to E he replied: "That's disturbing."

And here is my all-time favorite spread:

The bed was prickly, the floor was strewn,
The chairs were heaped-up too.
There wasn't one bit of room to sit
Unless she sat on a shoe.

:-)

2. Questions from E just now, "Mom, what do you think it was like to be the first homo sapien? Why is your butt warm? Why do you not have much of an eyebrow?"

3. cynthialord's forsythia have really taken off this year. Thank you for the daily gift of yellow, Cindy!

4. And more random questions from E just now. "Mom, have you ever heard of underwear with pockets?
Why were the North Koreans evil in the movie The Pacifier?" (Note to self: Think next time you try to update your blog while sitting next to the boy)

5. Sometimes there are things you can't really talk about for professional or personal or whatever reasons. But sometimes you still want to ask your friends for a hug. I am asking now. (Don't worry, Mom, it's nothing really serious. But sometimes a hug is nice.)

	User:	rstevens
	Date:	2008-05-16 00:09
	Subject:	Worf Endorses Obama: IT'S OVER
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	Music:	Mon, May 12th, 2008 Hour 4 - Coast to Coast AM

I, Lieutenant Worf, Endorse Barack Obama For President in Your Year 2008


Having traveled back in time to the era in which the Star Trek television set of series aired, which is a remarkably frequent occurrence given the impracticality of time travel, I, Lieutenant Worf, from television's Star Trek-The Next Generation and Star Trek-Deep Space Nine, am now ready to declare who I support in the 2008 Presidential Campaign...

He knows the future. I guess resistance is futile or some other cliché.

	User:	rachel_edidin
	Date:	2008-05-15 18:40
	Subject:	It'd almost be funny if it weren't so incredibly mean.
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( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

	User:	samuelteer
	Date:	2008-05-15 20:03
	Subject:	Via Twitter
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• 21:50 I've likely figured out how to weaponize buttock augmentations. #

	User:	jkcarrier
	Date:	2008-05-15 18:41
	Subject:	Thursday Night Links
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And you thought the comic book industry was full of swipes.
(spotted by Colleen Doran)

Jason Lutes discusses classic Dungeons & Dragons artist Dave Trampier.

Photographers recreate children's drawings.
(spotted by Mightygodking)

	User:	rstevens
	Date:	2008-05-15 17:13
	Subject:	because twitter was unavailable for comment
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OPEN ALL AIRLOCKS AND PREPARE TO DOCK AT AWESOME STATION

	User:	lunchbreak_pat
	Date:	2008-05-15 15:06
	Subject:	RIP Will Elder
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Man, so the great cartoonist Will Elder died today. Here's a tribute I drew a little while ago for an anthology of stories about comics and cartoonists. It's based on a true story:

	User:	jkcarrier
	Date:	2008-05-15 12:45
	Subject:	Gene Colan needs help
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Gene Colan (artist of Howard the Duck, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Batman, and many other classic comics) is suffering severe health problems, including liver failure and other complications. He could use your good wishes, as well as any financial help you can spare.

A letter from Gene's wife, outlining his situation.

Bid on some of Gene's artwork here.

Info on another fundraising auction here.

If you'd like to donate directly, you can send money via Paypal to genecolan@optonline.net

	User:	tugboatcity
	Date:	2008-05-15 09:14
	Subject:	100 Themes #95: Advertisment
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	User:	seankennedy
	Date:	2008-05-15 11:37
	Subject:	match game
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SNL still delivers teh funny:

Fred Armisen's composite of Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly really nails it for me.

	User:	rstevens
	Date:	2008-05-15 10:37
	Subject:	Danger Danger
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	Music:	lawnmower and a needy cat i will give you for free

According to your responses to my last post, either we are all paranoid or our lives are even more dangerous then TV news wants us to believe. Oy.

	User:	jbknowles
	Date:	2008-05-15 08:28
	Subject:	In which I become a wacky racer
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This week I had some big plans. First, I was scheduled to do a video conference with a group of high-school students from Kentucky on Tuesday. Then, I was to speak to a men’s club (I said SPEAK, not perform, heh) about my volunteer work at the prison on Wednesday Morning.

But on Monday evening, I learned that the Kentucky group had to postpone our meeting one day. To Wednesday.

My meeting at the Men’s club was from 8:15-9:30. The Kentucky group was to start at 9:30.

Panic ensued.

I talked to the organizers in Kentucky and asked if we could do a phone conference instead. This was all last minute planning anyway, so it was fine.

OK.

I talked to the organizer from the men’s club and he said yes, the meeting would end at 9:30.

OK.

I called the resort where I’d be speaking to find out if they had cell reception.

Nope. The closest you could get reception was 5 miles away.

Ohhhhh-crap.

I talked to the school. I could start my conversation with them at 9:45.

OK. Back on track.

So, I get in my car on Tuesday because I’m kind of freaking out about how I’ll find cell reception when I don’t even really know where this place is. I drive a half hour and find the resort I’m speaking at. I turn on my phone and start driving.

Ten minutes later, I get a signal! I call cfaughnan to make sure it will be a good connection. All systems go!

Now, I can relax a little about logistics and focus on being a nervous wreck about speaking to a men’s club and doing my first ever phone conference with students.

The next morning I head out to the resort, only to get stuck behind a big farm truck putting along at 20 miles per hour. I creep along behind, scheming about how I can overtake him. But it's a curvy road so I wimp out. Miraculously, I still manage to get to the place early.

The breakfast and talk with the men’s club goes really well. I read the women’s work and answer lots of questions and finish five minutes early.

Out to my car I go, relieved that I don’t have to rush to the tiny park I found the day before. Only problem? THIS time when I try my phone at the cute little park THERE IS NO COVERAGE!

I’m in the middle of nowhere and have about five minutes to find cell reception.

Let the insanity begin.

Finally, finally, I find a gas station. It is a little creepy, but that’s OK. It’s a little noisy, with lots of trucks coming and going, but that’s OK too. I just roll up my windows.

My phone rings. I take a deep breath and click it open. No one is there. Ack! Heart racing, I call the school myself. I get connected to the right place. Success!

Talking to the students on the phone was great, but very intense. They took turns asking questions from a microphone, so I couldn’t hear what their reactions were each time I answered. Not being able to see them was hard, too. It was all just a bit... unsettling. Were they laughing? Were they rolling their eyes? Were some of them leaving the room out of boredom? I couldn't tell. But it was a lot of fun nevertheless. And they asked terrific questions and they seemed really, really sweet. And I loved their southern accents. :-)

The time flew by and when I got off the phone I realized I was sitting in a car that was quite likely 105º inside. Er yeah. Hello? Rolled up windows with the sun blasting in! Smart! Good thing it wasn’t a longer conversation or I would have passed out. How crazy is it that I didn’t notice I was turning into barbecue? Yikes.

Anyway, I rolled down the windows and filled my tank with gas, since the station turned out to be charging about ten cents less per gallon than the place I usually go to. Sweet!

All in all, it was a totally stressful and amazing morning. And I realized that I really, really love talking to groups of people, even though I get so worked up and nervous beforehand. It’s such a gift to be able to talk about things that matter to you, and to get a chance to maybe inspire others to get involved in volunteer work, or to start a writing group, or to get excited about books, or, whatever!

:-)

Today is definitely a Thankful Thursday.

	User:	castellucci
	Date:	2008-05-15 00:34
	Subject:	bursting into song, marion ravenwood, the bad one and outer space (and don't forget the lit thing)
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	Mood:	happy
	Music:	Popular-Kristen Chenoweth-Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

For a WIP, I asked y'all a while back to suggest new musicals. Many of you suggested WICKED and I downloaded the song popular and loved it. Then I downloaded Defying Gravity and loved it. And then I downloaded the whole soundtrack and I loved it. It has become my writing album. I listen to it over and over and over again.

So tonight, I got tickets to go see it with my bff D and I loved it! I just loved it! So very huge ginormo thank you's to all who suggested that I listen to it because now I feel as though I am a Wicked-head. Wicked-groupie. A Defying gravity-er. A green wicked witch.

But regardless of my over listening to the soundtrack, I have been struggling super hard with one of my new WIPs. That's why today's Martini Shot segement on KCRW was absolutely brilliant and spoke to me. It made me laugh about something I fear - that I have just written the worst thing I've ever written. The one that I can't get away from. Today's segment was all about The Bad One. You know... You can have awards and money or just a great reputation as someone who does excellent work. But somewhere inside you – somewhere you hope deep – is a truly awful piece of work. A funny script so unfunny – a scary script so unscary – a terrible script so unfixable -- that it's hard to believe it actually came from you. That you typed it.

Speaking of Bad Ones. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull is out next week. Naturally I'm going to go see it, but the question is will it be good? (probably not!)
My pal and yours, Mr Peel (mrpeelssardine) has a great post about Raiders of the Lost Ark which is a movie that I actually love more than Star Wars. (my bro lightcastle can verify this statement) Marion Ravenwood is one of the absolute best female characters in a movie ever.

Speaking of Star Wars though, here is a brilliant Darth Vader as blues hamonicist video. (via boingwonder )

I do like aliens. They can come and visit my house if they want. I'll make them some herbal tea. Happily, they probably really exist. Just look at this article about The UK releasing batches of files on UFO sightings. The best one: a report by air traffic controllers in 1984.

Speaking of outer space, somehow it is a comfort to me that lost pieces of missing cosmic matter can be found.

And don't forget coming up May 21st is THE LIT THING - M-Bar @ 10 PM. the theme is Liars and Thieves.

With
K. Kvashay Boyle 
Mike Hollingsworth
Justine Musk  (moschus )
Tom O’Keefe 
Christina Pazsitisky

and just added as a reader, our very own Cylin Busby ( cbross )

	User:	chrisarrant
	Date:	2008-05-15 00:13
	Subject:	Tweets for Today
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• 14:57 man, I hate doing invoices.. but I love getting paid. #

	User:	crypticpress
	Date:	2008-05-15 10:00
	Subject:	Since I couldn't stop at just Batman...
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...here's a Superman.

	User:	rstevens
	Date:	2008-05-14 21:52
	Subject:	murder poll
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	Music:	Punky's Whips - Frank Zappa

Raise your hand if anyone has ever tried to murder you. No details.

<<-- Raises hand. (not for years, thankfully)

	User:	crypticpress
	Date:	2008-05-14 14:31
	Subject:	Since my wife won't stop...
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...drawing Batman, here's a doodle I did last night.

	User:	tugboatcity
	Date:	2008-05-14 09:35
	Subject:	100 Themes #94: Last Hope
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	User:	chrisarrant
	Date:	2008-05-14 08:45
	Subject:	CBT swag & song revealed!
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Comic Book Tattoo editor Rantz Hoseley knows his stuff. The first, of what should be many, swag items in anticipation of the July 2008 release of this Tori Amos anthology I'm a part of includes.... IM icons?

IM Icons for Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo Anthology GN (July 2008).
Designed by Tom Muller.