Yep, let the screaming and note-taking begin: it’s TARsday today. In the previews last week, it’s obvious that everyone will scurry way down in Egypt land, because the pyramids and Sphinx shots are kind of hard to miss. I don’t know if they’ll stop off somewhere first, as in pick up a route clue at some intermediate point like Frankfurt, but I decided to copy from schedules from a few typical dates in late January or February to try to make sense of the inevitable airport scramble. I’ve stashed them in the extended entry for easier readablity. I have no…
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Kaufman leads a crew of misfits, some lovable some downright annoying, who work on CITIZEN TOXIE. The standout is “Stunt Master” T.J.. Glenn, a big guy with a salt-and-pepper mullet and handlebar mustache who, in one of APOCALYPSE SOON’s funniest sequences, performs a extremely unconvincing “full body burn” where one’s entire flame retardant gel covered body is set ablaze and the fire extinguished after a period of writhing and screaming. Hey, I’ve seen T.J. Glenn in person! Jeebs, that takes me back. He did a martial arts demo at the first Highlander convention in Denver 10 years ago. I think…
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PvP‘s Scott Kurtz thinks maybe he might syndicate his papers for free. Here’s why: But I’ve already become attached to the idea of seeing PvP in the papers, and that’s why I’ve decided to start a new program. In the coming months, I’ll be putting into effect, a program in which papers can receive PVP for free. That’s right, free. They don’t have to pay me a cent for it. I will provide for the papers, a comic strip with a larger established audience then any new syndicated feature, a years worth of strips in advance, and I won’t charge…
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way. Also, Pakistan is claiming bragging rights or whatever that the prisoner they recently surrendered to our authorities (you know, the conveniently timed, big breaking news story surrender) provided a lot of the detail for the…
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I finally got around to seeing what Subservient Chicken is all about. Suffice to say, I got him to do some pretty freakin’ weird things, such as “impersonate Elvis,” “impersonate Michael Jackson (ooh! that chicken can moonwalk!)” and “hop from one foot to another.” However, the weirdest response thus far was to “do housework.” I was unsuccessful in commanding him to hump the furniture – he approached the camera and gave an imperious “no-no-no” gesture. However, he did oblige me on “molt” and “order fried chicken.”
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Here's a link for David – I was being extremely incoherent the other day trying to explain some of the new tricks that the Other Side are getting up to: Comment Spammers Persevere, Including Adding New Tricks via Brainstorms and Raves
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Miss Alli’s got her recap up for the notorious caviar-scoffiing Russian Roadblock episode of TAR. Whee!!
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What is Capitol Hill Blue, and why are their news stories so different from the usual corporate-newsmedia fare? Well, here’s the “Blue” FAQ
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U.S. Highway 40 is one of the initial Greyhound route casualties, taking out a string of Utah cities that includes Vernal, Roosevelt, Myton, Duchesne and Heber, along with Echo and Park City (along Interstate 80), and Logan (U.S. 89). Altogether, Greyhound is eliminating service to 260 U.S. cities and towns between Chicago and Seattle in its first round of cuts, effective Aug. 18. Long ago, after Pop died, my mom became the defacto “family fixer.” Her brother, my Uncle Charlie, would give her money for a plane ticket to Steamboat Springs, CO now and then to look after their oldest…
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If you haven’t read A View from A Broad yet, you should. From the beginning. It’s that good, and that compelling, and all that a blog can be. Everyone, from either side of the political aisle, should read it. I’ve been thinking about the huge waste of time it is for our country to be politically polarized. I think the Religious Right has hijacked the Republican Party. Or maybe we’re actually in a three-party system now (a political threeway: very complicated relations between bedfellows). Which would mean we have the Democratic Party (note: it’s not the Democrat Party, you mokes)…