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People often think that editors are there to read things and tell people “no.” Saying “no” is a tiny part of the job. Editors are first and foremost there to ship the product without getting sued. They order the raw materials—words, sounds, images—mill them to approved tolerances, and ship. No one wrote a book called Editors: Get Real and Ship or suggested that publishers use agile; they don’t live in a “culture” of shipping, any more than we live in a culture of breathing. It’s just that not shipping would kill the organism. This is not to imply that you hit every sub-deadline, that certain projects don’t fail, that things don’t suck. I failed plenty, myself. It just means that you ship. If it’s too hard to ship or you don’t want to deal with it, you quit or get fired.
— Real Editors Ship (Ftrain.com)
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Partway through the series, I kinda thought Scott was me when I started the series, and Gideon was me when I finished the series. You were talking about Envy before, and that’s one weird thing about this book; I realized I identified with Envy more than anyone else. So I had to bring her back. I’ve kind of gone through that same arc; I moved away and kind of became a big deal. (via ‘Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour’ Arrives for Bryan Lee O’Malley [Interview] - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews) —A really excellent interview with Bryan Lee O’Malley by Laura Hudson.

Partway through the series, I kinda thought Scott was me when I started the series, and Gideon was me when I finished the series. You were talking about Envy before, and that’s one weird thing about this book; I realized I identified with Envy more than anyone else. So I had to bring her back. I’ve kind of gone through that same arc; I moved away and kind of became a big deal. (via ‘Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour’ Arrives for Bryan Lee O’Malley [Interview] - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews) —A really excellent interview with Bryan Lee O’Malley by Laura Hudson.

Jul
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Today’s Comic Book Covers Reimagined in the Silver Age - ComicsAlliance —Oh, Chris Sims.

Today’s Comic Book Covers Reimagined in the Silver Age - ComicsAlliance —Oh, Chris Sims.

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Wendy Melvoin is fresh from high school. She is a wearing a V-necked sleeveless top, and patterned shorts. She is playing the first chords of a new song on her purple guitar, opening chords that she wrote, a circular motif with a chorus effect. Wendy is eighteen-nineteen and she has the high cheekbones and diffident confidence of a Hollywood upbringing. She half-smiles at the faces that crowd close to the low club stage. This is Wendy’s first gig with the new band, and the song she is playing is “Purple Rain,” and nobody in the audience has ever heard “Purple Rain” before because this is the night that Prince and the Revolution record the song. (via Purple Exegetics | HiLobrow)

Wendy Melvoin is fresh from high school. She is a wearing a V-necked sleeveless top, and patterned shorts. She is playing the first chords of a new song on her purple guitar, opening chords that she wrote, a circular motif with a chorus effect. Wendy is eighteen-nineteen and she has the high cheekbones and diffident confidence of a Hollywood upbringing. She half-smiles at the faces that crowd close to the low club stage. This is Wendy’s first gig with the new band, and the song she is playing is “Purple Rain,” and nobody in the audience has ever heard “Purple Rain” before because this is the night that Prince and the Revolution record the song. (via Purple Exegetics | HiLobrow)

Jul
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Most people understand the importance of facial expressions in cartooning, but if there’s anything that’s routinely neglected, it’s hands. It’s a shame too, since hands are the second thing we instinctively look at when a person is speaking to us. We use our hands in a variety of ways to accentuate our point; if we actively restrict ourselves from gesturing at all, natural speech actually become rather difficult. This goes beyond dialogue, too: hand gestures lead us to what’s important, and they’re the most frequent body part to indicate action and interaction with the environment, as well as other characters. Hands dominate the focus on what’s important in a scene, and to neglect this is to neglect a pivotal tool in storytelling. (via Drawing Hands: Augmenting an Idea • Indistinguishable From Magic)

Most people understand the importance of facial expressions in cartooning, but if there’s anything that’s routinely neglected, it’s hands. It’s a shame too, since hands are the second thing we instinctively look at when a person is speaking to us. We use our hands in a variety of ways to accentuate our point; if we actively restrict ourselves from gesturing at all, natural speech actually become rather difficult. This goes beyond dialogue, too: hand gestures lead us to what’s important, and they’re the most frequent body part to indicate action and interaction with the environment, as well as other characters. Hands dominate the focus on what’s important in a scene, and to neglect this is to neglect a pivotal tool in storytelling. (via Drawing Hands: Augmenting an Idea • Indistinguishable From Magic)

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Die Doraus und die Marianas - Fred from Jupiter - NDW - 1982 (via NewVaveGermany80) I’ve been looking for this song since I heard somebody DJ it at the Cooler in, I want to say, 1996. There exists an English-language single. I MUST FIND THIS. (Song starts about 15 sec. into video…)

Jul
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Loretta Lynn - Fist City (via kkiilljjooy) —And she sings the entire thing with a great big smile on her face. The equivalent of saying “Bless your heart…” Not enough people sing this song at karaoke.

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Among the unexpected aspects of nursing diagnoses is that they cannot share language with medical diagnoses, even though they are occasionally discussing exactly the same issue. For example, a nurse cannot diagnose a patient with dehydration, but can diagnose that patient with “fluid volume deficit.” This is odd to me.
— On becoming a nurse: The nurse’s role —This blog is always fascinating. 
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stationtostation-nyc: near Junction Blvd. station, Queens (7 line) One of my favorites.

stationtostation-nyc:

near Junction Blvd. station, Queens (7 line)

One of my favorites.

Jul
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

sashafrerejones:

Wire, “The Art of Stopping,” from “Send Ultimate,” 2010 (originally 2003).

Or: how to look at 1977 from a very different angle.