Grant Morrison talks comics

Strange little interview with Grant Morrison on YouTube.
This is from the DC Online thing they were doing a while back. There was one with a number of creators talking about themselves, their books, etc. Andy Diggle did one for The Losers and Warren Ellis for Global Frequency, as I recall – but this is the [...]

Dear Sir or Madame will you read my book…?

Ooooooh.
A new book about the Beatles album Revolver, for free in e-Book form, under a Creative Commons License.
Yes, please.
Revolver is the album that broke Brian Wilson’s mind – leading him into his Quixotic Smile sessions and leading him to believe he may never, with all his talent, actually measure up to the Beatles. When he [...]

"It’s all drag"

Interesting NYT style piece about how the skull as fashion accessory has gone from actual goths to Hot Topic to Wal-Mart, effectively devaluing its ability to communicate that the person wearing it is actualy dangerous or an outsider.
When Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Iggy Pop began wearing skull rings there was a dark cache to [...]

Uri Gellar under the gun

This is great. It’s famed “psychic” Uri Gellar on the old Johnny Carson show.
But, whereas Gellar was usually allowed to bring his own props and completely control the situation when he performed amazing feats on the air and told people he had supernatural powers, this time Johnny and someone who I believe to be famed [...]

Ghost Town or Girls Gone Wild?

Forbes places Greensboro at the bottom of their “40 Best Cities For Singles.”
As some who have been e-mailing me about the story have suggested – this is the sort of story you’re not sure how to feel about. There are plenty of cities all over America who didn’t make the list at all. But if [...]

The end is near

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TV EGGS!
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Fortress of Dorkitude

For Kitty:

The first appearance of Superman’s ultra-dorky Fortress of Solitude.

Bryan Singer’s Kryptonite

Finally saw Superman Returns.
The effects were, mostly, great. As for the rest…I was underwhelmed.
Jason Routh is, indeed, doing a pitch-perfect Chris Reeves impression that’s a little creepy from the first word he utters.
Kevin Spacey was good as Luthor, but not nearly as entertaining as he is usually.
Parker Posey, who is incredibly talented and whom I [...]

All this… and he can bench press a Buick

(AP) — A day after President Bush vetoed expanded federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday authorized a $150 million loan to fund California’s stem cell institute, which has been stalled by lawsuits.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican who has been trying to put distance between himself and the unpopular president as he [...]

"In The Summertime"

This is, I swear to God, a version of “In The Summertime” featuring Billy Idol and Slash from Guns N Roses.
While it is tremendously creepy it’s hard not to reflect that both these guys are actually better looking now than they were in their youth, at the height of their respective fame. This might have [...]

I love this stuff

Wired magazine is apparently celebrating the San Diego Comicon with a gallery of classic comic covers. Some of my favorites:

(My question – and I know I’m not SUPPOSED to ask this – is what exactly is that robot going to do with the sexy damsel in distress once he gets her back to whatever evil [...]

Birthday

My mom recently asked me what I wanted for my birthday, which is August 2nd.
And until that moment I don’t think I’d even realized my birthday was coming up.
I’m going to be 24 years old and already I’m at that point where my birthdays don’t particularly excite me. Weird.
As to the gifting question:
The older [...]

Looking back in anger

Some more odd music journalism.
Chuck Klosterman, the brilliant writer/essayist and author of one of my favorite books, “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto,” has written a series of short pieces looking at old articles in Spin, how accurate it all seems today and what his impressions were then.
Writing about the January 1995 [...]

Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls…

RALEIGH (AP) — A state judge has ruled that North Carolina’s 201-year-old law barring unmarried couples from living together is unconstitutional.
A lawsuit challenging the law was brought last year by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a former Pender County sheriff’s dispatcher. Deborah Hobbs, who had been living with [...]

You have to admit…he’s right.

This is hilarious.

"This man said,’It’s gruesome that someone so handsome should care…’"

Every day Gretchen and I miss John Russell just a little more.
John’s latest problem: the clothes-horse, former Carolinian sex columnist and current freelance NYC sex writer has nothing to wear out among the fabulous.

We may be able to help, John. We still have what I’m assuming was a ridiculously expensive pair of jeans at our [...]

So that’s what happened to all those fans of VR5…

Pick up this week’s issue of Yes! Weekly to read my friend Chris Lowrance’s story about Second Life – a massively multi-player online roleplaying environment where people do just about everything you can do in reality – from holding jobs and forming relationships to paying real money for fake sex.
There are in-world virtual book [...]

An easy way to help

Cara Michele, a local homeless advocate and blogger, points to a serious food shortage at The Servant’s Center, who operate a Greensboro food pantry that assists the low-income elderly, disabled with limited mobility, those who are homeless due to fire or flood and the victims of spousal abuse, among others.
Here are some staples they need:
1)Canned [...]

Adams vs. Pitchfork

A friend sent me this tonight and I nearly passed out laughing.
It’s a message Ryan Adams left on the answering machine of Chicago Sun-Times/ Pitchfork writer Jim DeRogatis, berating him for a negative review of his show.
I checked it out and the message is legit. It’s apparently been floating around a while and I’m just [...]

10-16

One of my jobs, as a night cop reporter, is to decide which incidents are important enough to report on.
There are, on any given night, a lot of assaults. A lot of drug arrests. A lot of car accidents.
Like any paper, the N&R has a standard to which things like this have to rise in [...]