July 2008
56 posts
“LG: I am Liz Gorinsky for tor.com, and I am here with the awesome, newly...”
– Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / SDCC: Five (or eight) things make a post—Douglas Wolk
“So the Myth of the Fall gets the causality wrong. But it also raises a question...”
– Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Some of Origins of Marvel (and Other) Comics
“Prawns are natural bullets. Their hard shell acts as a casing. Their combustible...”
– Hitherby Dragons » The Gesundheit Stratagem
“And now it’s not that the tyranny of literature and the paraliterary has been...”
– Long story; short pier: Let comics be comics
“I don’t usually address this subject because I don’t know much at all about...”
– Teaching Online Journalism » The survival of journalism: 10 simple facts
“We have a commission from the Princeton Laptop Orchestra to create something for...”
– Gutteral: This post has teeth in the mouth of a beast (an interview with Matmos)
“Reading Comics is a genuinely unique animal. We may have seen similar books...”
– The Fortress of Jason Grote: Thoughts on Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics
“It’s not like there is a single moment in which everything came together,”...”
– SignOnSanDiego.com > Entertainment > Comic-Con 2008 — Visual visionaries
“(We are villains. We want to change the world. We demand, for instance, that we...”
– Long story; short pier: Hope is the new bleak
“Yeah, this is the essential mystery of creation whether you’re talking...”
– L’ESSAIM VICTORIEUX DES MOUCHES D’EAU: The craft. —a very VERY VERY long interview with Alan Moore
“Still, Nolan has dropped the ball on one of the most compelling ideas comic...”
– Batman, comics, The Dark Knight | Salon Arts & Entertainment
“According to a 2007 poll of 1,500 people conducted by the Pew Research Center,...”
– Skin Deep - Hey, Mom, the Rabbi Approved My Tattoo - NYTimes.com
“Out of the 217 pages of story, there were 121 words I did not know. That comes...”
– Candy or Medicine: Alison Bechdel Makes Me Feel Stupid
“Perhaps the most important hummus secret I know, as once imparted to me by the...”
– Filling A Much-Needed Void » Hot Weather Cookery: Virtuous Hummus
“I read these books as a kid and found the experience profoundly off-putting —...”
– Do you like Richard Feynman? « Quomodocumque
“So I wish Wolk read manga — not just because he’s missing out on a...”
– Whereof one can speak: Inside outside in: A second look at Reading Comics
“I’m going to examine Honor’s agency in the issue and offer up some...”
– Batman and The Black Man « Mindless Ones
“If I had stopped reading Reading Comics halfway through, I’d have been left with...”
– The Valve - A Literary Organ | What I Don’t Know About Comics
“Guys, I’m at AX and I’m gonna say it: the future looks bleak.
I’m not sure that...”
– Manga: A long and winding road… « boiled egg
“Moyo said a car battery was priced Monday at 2.4 trillion dollars ($240 U.S.), a...”
– A loaf of bread costs billions in Zimbabwe: The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. (thanks for the tip, Ed!)