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May
19th
Sun
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The Echo Nest Blog: How We Cope with Spammers, Fakers, and Cloners

In which the remarkable Aaron Mandel presents a taxonomy of the terrible, terrible things that turn up in digital music archives. Read, listen, crack up.

echonest:

The most amazing one that I’ve found to date is Charts Hits 2013’s clone of Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop.” It features a vocalist who makes no attempt to sound like Macklemore, and even so, he’s in way over his head. Clearly, the guy is reading from a lyric sheet. He says “mezzanine” like it rhymes with “nine” and says that he’s draped in a “Leonard mink.” The horn riff is also agonizingly squared off, with every note played at exactly the same volume.

This “Thrift Shop” clone is on the Spotify playlist of musical spam we mentioned above, but really, it’s way too good to miss, so here’s a YouTube link too.
May
17th
Fri
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bookishandi: ruckawriter: brianmichaelbendis: the international comic arts forum posted by Mike Allred I have not said enough about the fact that I will be here next week. I will be there on Thursday talking about teaching comics with the amazing Diana Shutz. Oooh ooh I’ll be there, too! Doing a panel on Saturday! I’ll be there on Saturday, too, Portland followers (I swear I didn’t have any influence on the poster design, Allred just PUT A TOTORO ON IT BECAUSE AWESOME)! I’m presenting a paper on Saturday at 1:25 on Batwoman and the queerness of superheroes. I will ALSO be at this: on Thursday morning, I’m the “plenary speaker,” and I’ll be talking about the great lost American comics genre.

bookishandi:

ruckawriter:

brianmichaelbendis:

the international comic arts forum posted by Mike Allred

I have not said enough about the fact that I will be here next week.

I will be there on Thursday talking about teaching comics with the amazing Diana Shutz.

Oooh ooh I’ll be there, too! Doing a panel on Saturday!

I’ll be there on Saturday, too, Portland followers (I swear I didn’t have any influence on the poster design, Allred just PUT A TOTORO ON IT BECAUSE AWESOME)!

I’m presenting a paper on Saturday at 1:25 on Batwoman and the queerness of superheroes.

I will ALSO be at this: on Thursday morning, I’m the “plenary speaker,” and I’ll be talking about the great lost American comics genre.

May
9th
Thu
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browsethestacks: Vintage Comic - Falling In Love #118

browsethestacks:

Vintage Comic - Falling In Love #118

May
8th
Wed
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Dept. of Cover Captions That Explain the Plot a Little Too Deeply.

Dept. of Cover Captions That Explain the Plot a Little Too Deeply.

(Source: comics.org)

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bobdobalina: [Peanuts, September 18, 1994] HOLY SHIT

bobdobalina:

[Peanuts, September 18, 1994]

HOLY SHIT

May
6th
Mon
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: Book Tour Dates for Scatter, Adapt and Remember

scatteradaptandremember:

UNITED STATES

Portland, OR

5/10 Powell’s City of Books

Reading with Douglas Wolk!

7:30pm, 1005 W. Burnside Street, Portland, OR
May
5th
Sun
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comicblah: (Prof.) Kitty Pryde by Jaime Hernandez #WomenofMarvel

comicblah:

(Prof.) Kitty Pryde by Jaime Hernandez #WomenofMarvel

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May
4th
Sat
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oliversava:

Mindblowing preview of the next Hawkguy spotlighting Pizza Dog. Aja gettin that Eisner.

Source: CBR

Saul Bass _and_ Chris Ware homages? LOVE

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Apr
28th
Sun
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funnybookbabylon: -Ulises Farinas. The cover of Judge Dredd Mega City Two: City of Courts, a Dredd mini published by IDW coming to stores around the end of the year. By Douglas Wolk (!) and Farinas, with colors by Owen Gieni. Very exciting. This was my big news of the weekend. I am OFF THE CHARTS excited about this.

funnybookbabylon:

-Ulises Farinas. The cover of Judge Dredd Mega City Two: City of Courts, a Dredd mini published by IDW coming to stores around the end of the year. By Douglas Wolk (!) and Farinas, with colors by Owen Gieni. Very exciting.

This was my big news of the weekend. I am OFF THE CHARTS excited about this.

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Chris Cobb, an artist based in San Francisco, has created an amazing installation in bookshop called Adobe Books- he catalogued every single one of the 20,000 books by color. The project is titled There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World. They were arranged by hand over a 10 hour period, and he enlisted the help of 16 volunteers. Such beautiful results, they transformed the bookshop overnight.

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MOAR SERENDIPITY PLS

(Source: showslow, via bookshelfporn)