Hi Everyone, Some very cool news to share. LadyDarke is on the cover of this week’s Comic Shop News! CSN is the go-to source for tens of thousands of comic book readers and distributed by comic shops all across the country. I’ve been reading CSN every week for decades, and […]
Rapidly shifting digital winds
It all happened so fast. The implosion of Twitter is upon us, landing like something between the fall of the USSR and the crash and burn of New Coke. Twitter’s been my dominant social media vehicle of choice for over a decade, which is crazy. In that time I’ve connected […]
Attack of the Localize Mother 3 Sign Clones!
Oh my. What have I done. Genie is out of the bottle, kids. The Localize Mother 3 mindgerm has been released and is infecting the population at pandemic levels. Now something akin to a full-scale psyops campaign is underway. Since unleashing the neon pink scourge upon the world last April […]
Cheap Thrills of a Cheap Age
So you kick out 3 million. Does the factory reopen? Do the shops come back to the decimated main street you walked as a kid? Do the Cadillacs roll by blasting something by Brenda Lee? Is everyone smiling and happy? Are things the way they ought to be? Maybe you […]
Sign of the Times – Localize Mother 3, WWE, and the Unbearable Lightness of Being an Internet Meme
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign? -Ancient Proverb Let it be known that I did it for the lolz. It was one of those things I thought maybe would make a handful of […]
The Twilight Zone Election
I’ve followed American politics since before I could vote, finding it exciting and captivating, sometimes even fun. I naively and mistakenly thought I was accustomed to all the various tricks the murderous bloodsport had to offer, its unpredictable lurching, its penchant for absurd twists and turns. I should be used […]
One Hundred Years Ago, A Time Not Unlike Our Own
One hundred years ago today, a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip and a cell of five others assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie. Princip and his team threw “infernal machines” (what we today would call a grenade or perhaps an IED) at the archduke’s precession […]
End of an Error – Jay Leno’s Last Tonight Show
It’s the end of an era in the increasingly irrelevant world of broadcast television as Jay Leno steps down as host of the Tonight Show for a second and presumably last time. Today also in a way marks the end of a long series of errors, from NBC’s appointment of […]
Best Images of 2011
Imgur, the popular image hosting site, has posted their picks for top images of 2011. View the list here: http://imgur.com/bestof2011
The 'Hum' and How to Hear It
Weirdness surrounding a sinister noise called the “hum” in the English countryside. I look forward to the Hollywood adaptation set in suburban California staring Shia LeBouf and Blake Lively. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8566281/Tiny-village-is-latest-victim-of-the-The-hum.html