About that CDC zombie page…

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CDC Zombie Page

It’s not often that I commit webcomic. Click the image if you have a problem with the size.

Here’s the CDC page.

Loving Superman and *Loving* Superman

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A discussion popped up recently over this video:

For those who don’t want to click, (and you probably don’t because that video is equal parts hilarious and creepy) it’s a clip from the series finale of Smallville, in which Clark Kent finally gets his Superman suit, flies, saves Lois, and saves the world. And while that plays, the guy watching offers his quite vocal… “enthusiasm” for the show.

Actually, it sounds like he’s masturbating, shouting “YES! YES! YES!” several times, and “Do it right! Do it right!” and “AMERICA!” and generally having a really, really intense sexual experience. I suspect that, if the camera had been pointed the other way, he would have had to post the video on YouP*rn instead of YouTube.

I linked to it in a “Boy, people sure can be creepy!” sort of way, but several people responded by saying stuff like “What’s wrong with a little extra happiness in the world?” and “I think it’s great that he’s enjoying the show, and what’s wrong with that?” I haven’t quite figured out if it doesn’t register as a stroke video to them, or if they think audible orgasms to shitty TV shows are part of the wonder and joy of the human existence, or what.

Still, I think it’s creepy and a little funny. I hope the actors never see it. I do wonder if the guy taped this with his pants pulled up and zipped tight, not realizing how it would sound. His bio says he’s a devout Christian, so maybe he…

Ah, who knows. Anyway, I think it’s pathetic and funny and extremely creepy to post “fan love” audio online.

Randomness for 5/18

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1) Better book titles, Strunk and White ed.

2) Brilliant street fliers.

3) Why SyFy cancelled SGU, in numbers.

4) Angry comic book fans are good for sales, apparently.

5) U.S. cities where women (childless, between 22-30 years old) earn more than men.

6) Mysterious “Surfing Madonna” mosaic appears in Encinitas, but city mayor calls it “graffiti”.

7) My son calls this the guy-cycle. Video.

My “Judgement Day” Plan for 5/21

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Okay you guys, here’s the plan. There are all sorts of people out there convinced that the Rapture will occur on May 21st, because that’s supposed to be Judgement Day. Weirdly, Judgement “Day” supposedly lasts for, like, five months, but never mind that. I have an idea.

Instead of letting yet another “Absolutely true this is the honest deal for reals” pseudo-Apocalypse pass with business as usual–except for the eye-rolling–we should have fun.

That’s why, at about noon PST on 5/21, I plan to be on Twitter. These are the tweets I’ll make:

  • My wife says she hears someone playing trumpets, but I can’t hear a thing. All that exercise is rotting her brain.
  • HOLY SHIT, SHE JUST VANISHED IN FRONT OF ME!
  • WHAT’S GOING ON??? MY WIFE JUST DISAPPEARED LIKE OBI WAN KENOBI! HER EMPTY CLOTHES COLLAPSED ON THE FLOOR!
  • WHERE’S MY SON!
  • My son has vanished, too! WHERE’S MY SON! WHAT’S GOING ON!! I gotta figure this out!

With the perfect delay between tweets, it’ll seem like the Rapture is really happening.

You should do this, too! If enough people on Twitter and LiveJournal and Facebook post that their loved ones have suddenly vanished (or their Muslim co-worker or Jewish Grandma) it will seem like the Rapture really is happening, and the people wearing those “Judgement Day” T-shirts weren’t chosen to go.

Maybe you can Instagram a set of clothes on the floor of your office, or an empty car up on a lawn.

So! May 21st, noon PST! Remember.

Randomness for 5/12

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1) Sci-fi IKEA manuals.

2) The first five Harry Potter novels abbreviated in comic form.

3) Since when did diligence become a psychiatric disorder?

4) Japanese TV show pranks a man with a haunted mirror. Video. I’m a bad person for laughing as hard as I did, especially after things got crazy. Be sure to watch the whole thing.

5) TV writer Doris Egan on The Moment They Figure It Out: open and closed plot structures, realization, and turning points, with a little Doctor Who thrown in for good measure.

6) “I will tell you a secret to make you stand out.”

7) “Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says” Oh god, for once, read the comments on this “article.” Let’s be CLEAR this is not a VADER victory but a victory of our boys in white, not to mention the leadership of Lord Tyrannus the Count Dooku who started the manhunt in the first place. LOL via Jay Lake

Randomness for 4/30

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1) 35 Fantastic Lego Ads.

2) Every Time Magazine cover in one image. Warning: big file

3) The Sartre Star Wars. Video. via Tor.com. The YouTube user’s other videos are pretty good, especially “Be A Good Sport, Sport.”

4) Now for a big change. Gorgeous… and I do mean gorgeous time lapse photography from a mountain in Spain. Video. Really amazing.

5) It’s been a while since I dropped politics into one of these link salads, but here’s one: Three important health care graphs. This is why I support effectiveness studies, which Republicans oppose: we’re already spending too much, and we don’t take the time to find out what works and what doesn’t. The first thing we should be cutting from our health care spending is a treatment that doesn’t work. Plus, I happen to believe we can learn something from the good examples of others.

6) Vintage condom posters.

7) This is awesome, and they need help from book collectors.

www.getoutoftherebat(man).com

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You guys, I hate http://getoutoftherecat.tumblr.com/ SO MUCH it makes my skin crawl. The twee, it burns!

That’s why we need a GetOutOfThereBatman site.

Here are my first entries (and yeah, the horrible burned-out flash photography is an essential part of the style)

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get out of there batman. you are not breakfast. you are not even made of eggs. no one wants to eat you except maybe killer croc and he does not live here. why do you want to cook yourself?


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get out of there batman. you are not a book. i can not even read your expression because you wear a mask. books are for learning things but you are full of secrets such as your identity and the location of your bat cave. books are also for fun while you spend most of your time scowling and punching people. do you want to reveal your secrets or be fun? i don’t think so you are batman


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get out of that bed batman. you should not be sleeping you are the dark avenger of the night. you should be outside frightening criminals and kicking them in the face. who will throw batarangs at the joker while you are taking a nap?


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get out of there batman. you are not toast. no matter what the bad guys do to you you will never be toast because you are a corporate property worth billions of dollars. you are so popular that in the end you will always be okay you are batman.

Descendent of Ancient English Tyrants to Wed

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Tom the Dancing Bug

Randomness for 2/26

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1) This is crazy and awesome: Man builds functional CPU in Minecraft, using only redstone dust, torches, levers and stone. Of course it’s bigger than two city blocks (and I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about as he describes the parts, but it’s freaking awesome. via @laura_hudson

2) Try to watch this video without reading the comments first. It’s pretty funny and kind of brilliant.

3) The Gettysburg Address as a PowerPoint presentation.

4) Silent security cam footage of a tornado hitting St. Louis airport. Video. Brr.

5) Animated gifs as art.

6) Awesome! Check out the new trailer for THOR… as made my mockbuster crap-slingers Asylum Entertainment. Video.

7) Cousins fight over GAME OF THRONES tv show. lol.

Randomness for 4/21

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1) “Speed-climbing” the Eiger. This dude is nuts but the footage is gorgeous. Video.

2) “You will ripen with my child, faerie girl.” I don’t like to take digs at romance novels because so many people do it out of ignorance and misogyny, and I think the genre is unfairly maligned. Still, these excerpts from bad romance novels are pretty damn funny.

3) Curious to see what a professional comic book script looks like? Greg Rucka helps you out.

4) DIY Bacon Roses. via Jay Lake.

5) Ten Important Tax Charts.

6) Ten Deadly DIY Gadgets. The “flame gloves” pretty much qualify you as a Batman villain, and the crossbow that shoots machetes would be perfect for a zombie apocalypse, but it’s the car you can drive with an iPhone that really scares the hell out of me. via Jay Lake

7) An interactive map showing how much oil each country produced over the last fifty years. Just click “play.”