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Randomness for 10/15

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1) A terrific book trailer for Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Video

2) Where good ideas come from. Video.

3) ‘Damn. Are we that different from people?’ I can’t think of any way to summarize this profile of Insane Clown Posse except to say that it’s really, really interesting. They’re evangelical Christians? (Added later: the SNL parody. Video. My reaction to that spoof: SNL is still on the air?)

4) Buy artificial hands to touch your baby. Hey, it’s not as creepy as this teddy bear made from a placenta! Hello, horror movie that is the real world.

5) Animator vs. Animation III. Video.

6) McDonald’s burgers can TOO grow mold on them, says McDonals.

7) Sir Ken Robinson talks modern education. Video. This is another RSA Animate video, and I love it. (Let’s ignore the Ritalin error)

Randomness for 10/8

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1) Chicken McNuggets are made of this pink goop. Oh, lame-ass standup comics of yesteryear, the truth is so much worse than you imagined! By god, industrial food is repulsive.

2) “If you do this in an email, I hate you.”

3) Ten greatest all-nude fight scenes in comics. So… yeah, it’s funny and dopey and juvenile, but it’s funny. Also, the comments are hilarious.

4) I was pretty stupid when I was younger, but never this stupid. Video.

5) SF Signal has done a “mind meld” about the idea of a Star Wars reboot, and most of the writers say “No,” “NO!” and “Don’t bother.” Of course, I planned out a Star Wars: A New Hope reboot last year.

6) “First with my son, and now with my new love, I was learning that conspiracy
and dominance are not the only ways to be close to someone.” This essay/memoir/confessional is a few years old (ancient in internet time) but still powerful as hell. Carver is a terrific writer.

7) Sucking air through clenched teeth alert: Woman mistakenly uses super glue instead of eye drops. Note to self: move all butcher knives out of the prop knife drawer.

Randomness for 10/3

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1) Logan’s Run as a Lego diorama. For you younger readers, Logan’s Run is an old book and movie. This picture isn’t from BrickCon, btw.

2) Celebrity Twitter accounts reviewed.

3) This building size death ray emitter was built by accident, not a mad scientist as I originally assumed.

4) Baby Monkey Riding Backwards on a Pig. This is my new favorite song. Video.

5) “I found this book looking through my wife’s “recently viewed” list and thought it would be an excellent gift for our 12 year old niece who loves R.L. Stein’s “Goosebumps” and “Fear Street” series. Boy, was I wrong!”

6) John Scalzi’s thoughts on Atlas Shrugged.

7) Twitterers respond to a 3-D version of Star Wars.

“I am a perfectly normal human worm baby.”

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Did you know there’s a new drink product called “Vacation in a bottle”? And that it comes in a can?

I know, doesn’t it sound great? I have never tasted it but I wrote an absolutely, completely, totally serious review on Amazon.com. I encourage you to do the same.

Randomness for 9/26

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1) Your kids will damage you.

2) Waiting for Superman: Not the intelligent examination of our public school systems we were hoping for.

3) Pictorial book reviews!

4) Only pain is funny.

5) Mike Tyson’s abandoned mansion.

6) Stephen Colbert testifies before a Congressional sub-committee in character.

7) Man attacks the Sesame Street character Elmo. Elmo wins fight.

Randomness for 9/21

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1) Miniature scenes crafted inside toilet rolls.

2) Superheroes imagined as hipsters.

3) Top ten cars the Car Talk guys hate the most.

4) “Hey, you’re the one who forgot the wheelbarrow!” Video.

5) Until I saw it, I didn’t know I wanted perfume that would make you smell like a library.

6) Now THIS is the A-Team movie they should have made! Video.

7) Dot, the world’s smallest animation character. Video. Truly amazing.

What happens to your life when you cancel your cable TV

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Last night my son insisted that we draw some comic books. He’d just watched Scott McCloud on TED Talk and wanted to try a branching “choose your own adventure” comic.

I don’t have permission to post his, but I’ll put mine below the cut. It’s not nearly as ambitious, and I can’t draw worth a damn, but here you go anyway. Continue reading

Randomness for 9/17

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1) Parents offer baby-naming rights to corporations.

2) Top 5 Regrets of the Dying.

3) Speed-dating in the Marvel Universe.

4) Eight historic symbols that mean the opposite of what you think.

5) A TED talk about sleep patterns, and it’s only 4 minutes long. Video.

6) I’ve changed my mind: e-books will ruin everything. E-comics allow users to leave comments. Yeah, it’s bad.

7) Why you should never date a writer.

Randomness for

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1) Ghosts in the Hollow, a record of abandoned buildings in the Appalachians. Video. Via Cherie Priest.

2) Have some publishing wonkery: “Sell-through” explained.

3) “YOU! The one who is moving now! ANSWER!” Video

4) Revolt in the Fifth Dimension. Video part one, part two. I loved these Spider-man cartoons as a kid, even the weird, trippy space episodes like this one. This clip is worth playing for the music alone.

5) In Legoland space, no one can hear you scream.

6) Do you love Legos and zombies? Well, this link is for you: Video.

7) Oyster beer? I’d try it.

Randomness for 8/18

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1) Everything is better in France. Even muggings.

2) Trends in fantasy cover art for 2009.

3) Your monster instructional video for the day.

4) James Bond, Indian comic book style: “You hide identity for good. But there are Super Dupers who never reveal themselves at the worst.”

5) Seven scientific reasons the zombie apocalypse will not be an extinction event.

6) Rope gymnastics in India. Video. Honestly amazing.

7) Fifty-five incredible manipulated photos.