| Observing the Increasing Trend |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|10:14 am] |
Am I the only person who really hate it when people use fanart for icons without crediting, and then ask people who use the icons to credit them? Personally, I don't use fanart for icons, unless I draw it myself or get permission from the fanartist, but I can tolerate at least if people credit properly.
( actually not too tl;dr ) |
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[Nov. 11th, 2009|07:24 pm] |
Dr. Tom Coburn, Republican Senator from Oklahoma, has exercised a personal hold on a bill which would provide benefits to disabled veterans and their caretakers.
Today.
He has stopped the bill in its tracks, he claims, because he wants to know for absolute certain where the money to pay for it will come from.
As if that were an excuse.
At least that trumps his previous famous statements of how abortion doctors should be executed, and how some Oklahoma high schools are crawling with lesbians. |
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| Eddie Campbell at Comica, part 1 |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|10:54 pm] |
As ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jinty mentioned, we went to the ICA to watch Eddie Campbell (Alec, Bacchus, From Hell) in conversation with Arnold Brown, two very different individuals combined to shed light on both; a brainchild trick of (Comica organiser) Paul Gravett, Eddie Campbell's The Man at the Crossroads, still striking out towards that crossover comics audience that will (eventually) be pretty much everyone, if he has his way.
A delightful surprise in the audience was Jean-Paul Jennequin, an old contact from the queerzine years, now handsomely bearded and a pillar of the establishment, running the queer comics drop-in at Angoulême. You must drop in if you come next year, he says. Hehn.
In the signing queue, a woman doing her dissertation on autobiographical comics buttonholes us and we talk in odd spikes of thoughts for a bit; representations of friends, honesty, the shock of finding stories that you thought were about you in other people's works. Corinne Pearlman (I saw her on the way in) tells me she mentioned me in a lecture about female cartoonists; or was it just a picture? I don't know. Apparently the filming went wrong on that talk so it won't go on the website. It's Dyke TV all over again, something about me fails to commit to film.
Eddie remembers me (the woman called Jeremy!) from Bristol and I slip him a tiny minicomic. I'd entirely forgotten Bristol; it was quite buried in the memory of seeing him talk at the last ever UKCAC.
Here's the first page of my notes from the talk. The really significant statements are as follows:
[on the advantage an autobigraphical cartoonist has when it comes to coping with strange and difficult experiences] "When I'm in a panic, I can usually stop and figure out what might be useful in here to somebody else."
[on his early days as an artist] "If you'd told me I wasn't a real artist I would have been crestfallen." -- to which Paul and others of his circle replied: "We never told you that."
Page two tomorrow, click to see it bigger.
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Eddie Campbell at Comica
Lecture notes with false colours Paul Gravett fashion sketch. Alas, I did not get a second look at his amazing shoes... |
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| "Well maybe they should have three." |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|03:41 pm] |
I got called in today after all. I sat and read parts of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Sorcerer's Stone while a bunch of middle-schoolers sat and watched a PBS documentary about recipients of the Medal of Honor.
It's November 11th, of course, and it was a Social Studies class.
November 11th is important, as I've quoted before:
" I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is. "
~ Kurt Vonnegut, from the prologue to Breakfast of Champions |
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| I'm overdue for a blog! |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|04:20 pm] |
I can't say "I'm overdue" or "I'm late" because the work girls & church ladies ALWAYS ask me when the next little one is coming and remind me that Ty needs a brother or sister. Yes, but no, but yes, but NO. It would be nice. Not practical at this time.
Anyway.
Here are some fun things!
The 11th annual (give or take) Halloween Party was a success. The twist was that this year there were 4 toddlers. And Tim the Enchanter, complete with staff that shot fire. It was quite fun.
My birthday was last Thursday! It was pretty awesome. Probably one of my favorite birthdays because of surprises. My friend Amber surprised me with flowers! my MIL surprised me with professional Ty pictures from portrait studio! And a scarf! And my coworkers kidnapped me & took me for a martini & sushi! I felt so loved.
I won't bore you with the "stuff" though.
And finally - we went on our annual trip to Geneva Lodge - awesome food, awesome wine, awesome weather & hiking on the beach. We played catch in the pool too.
And i got props from a member on my last call of the day! YES! |
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| Gintama's 2010 Anime Movie Teaser Streamed |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|11:31 pm] |
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The official website for the Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-Hen (Gintama: Benizakura Arc — A New Retelling) anime movie has begun streaming a half-minute teaser trailer on Friday. Sunrise's film adaptation of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama alternate-history gag manga will open during Golden Week, the string of Japanese holidays that stretches from the end of April through the first week of May. The title indicates that the film will depict a new version of the popular Benizakura story arc from the television anime series.
~wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/gintama/#/homepage~
OH YESSS!!!!! Even thought not the title that I think......*>.<*
(Forgive me, because it is the first time I post here......)
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[Nov. 11th, 2009|08:15 am] |
Just a short notice to dredge up not one but two old stories.
Thom Hartmann, a man who ought be read, wrote something explaining how 1). the Ft. Hood shootings can be arrow-pointed directly back to things done by George W. Bush, and 2). Bush placed casting himself as Superman ahead of getting shit done, thereby deserving every condemnation available in every language.
Granted, the second point is like saying cubes have flat sides, but it needs to be restated and reexamined at least once every few months until the end of time. Nevar Forget. |
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| Kneader of wool |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|07:26 pm] |
A couple months ago I said some good things about The Secret of Kells.
Now I am learning that, because it exists, the 2010 Oscars will have five nominees instead of the usual three.
No nominations are out yet, but Kells had better get one if there is any justice.
In order to qualify, it will squeeze in a small theatrical release in early December before a wider release in March.
You'd best believe I will be seeing it then. |
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| Boy |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|06:26 pm] |
The first anniversary of the Mother 3 translation came and went last month. Maybe it's for this reason that I feel compelled to share a pint-sized mindfuck with you all. The final battle in Mother 3 was pretty intense, yes. But if you watch this video of the unused backgrounds and music originally intended for the last conflict, you can probably gather that it was, at one point, meant to make you crap your pants.
1:30 is just nightmare fuel.
If you stick angel wings on a tortured character, I'm going to roll my eyes. If you stick angel wings on a tortured little boy whose innocently naked form is undulating to otherworldly funk, I'm going to say "AAAH!"
Considering the bond between Lucas and Claus, I actually find this more unsettling than the battle with Giygas in Earthbound. |
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| Fuck You, He's Awesome? |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|03:15 pm] |
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Because I felt like it, Amano picspam. All images link to BIG MCLARGEHUGE scans.
( AMANO, FUCK YEAH! ) |
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| the comforts of clutter |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|06:04 pm] |
At this time of year I go into dormouse mode, and start lining my nest with things. Shiny things, gleamy things, dreamy things, pretty things, tasty things. Like most British mammals, I don't entirely hibernate, but I like to spend a lot of time in my cosy nest, and I like my cosy nest to be well-lined, like a winter coat.
I think that being surrounded by beautiful, interesting things, things that remind you of good times, mementos and souvenirs, gizmos and gadgets and bit and bobs is deeply soothing --especially when the weather gets grim and going out seems like less and less of an agreeable prospect. You feel set up, taken care of. There's no shortage of entertainment and interest.
This isn't to say that I bring everything home, or that everything I bring home I keep. There's a world of difference between despairing clutter and that excresecence of mindfulness, that fills the homes of people who love stuff.
It's time for late harvest now, time to look at all of those random things that have followed me home in spring and summer, and see what will stay, and what will be passed along. To ask of them the usual questions:
Is it beautiful?
Is it useful?
Does it make me happy?
Is it entirely itself?
Can it be used to make something else?
Will I actually get round to doing that?
And then some to keep, and some to pass on. Some to hold onto and some to let go. Until everything is in its place (more or less) and the whole happy round can start again. |
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