Here’s a roundup of my recent tweets on Twitter (slightly edited and remixed for clarity here on my blog). I’d love it if you’d follow me on there; you can do so via my Twitter profile page.
* It occurs to me that there’s something profoundly wrong with a culture that values a lush 864-page hardcover Asimov omnibus at $1.00.
* That’s how much I paid for it at @CrandallLibrary’s book sale. I had a buck’s worth of entertainment in the first chapter alone.
* I’m grateful to have scored so entertaining and monumental a work for so little cash, but it’s really a dire sign for the culture, isn’t it?
* New DVD Talking Heads: Chronology is out. Made of WANT.
* There are two types of fans: superhero fans and comics fans. The problem is that most superhero fans mistakenly believe they’re comics fans.
* The litmus test is, would they rather read American Splendor or Love and Rockets, or watch a superhero-y movie or TV show instead.
* (Responding to a claim that superhero fans fund the entire comics industry): I’m sure Yosihiro Tatsumi, G.B. Trudeau and the estate of Charles Schulz are grateful to superhero fans for propping them up.
* Is there a point to the newly-recoloured Jim Lee X-Men #1 other than the ad for the collected editions in the back? So it’s just a big ad.
* A reprint of a comic book that is in its millions in quarter bins everywhere is really an insult to readers, trees, and decency in general.
* There are 5 million more copies of X-Men #1 in print than necessary to begin with, for fuck’s sake.
* I hate when people type “opps,” meaning “oops.”
* Cleaned up my PC desktop, defragged it, and now doing laundry. I’m sure there’s a connection there somewhere.
* Driving down a late friend’s street while one of his favourite songs plays in the car in the hours before dawn is like a punch in the heart.
* Son sleeping in living room. Talking in his sleep. “Mmm…brarp,” he just said, as if it’s really important.
* I for one welcome our newly classified pizza vegetables.
* This just in: Government to reclassify cheesecake, tiramisu and Tootsie Pops as fruits, and broccoli as rocks.
* I wonder how you can demand to see people’s papers and not consider yourself a Nazi? #OWS
* “Smuckers recalls jars of chunky peanut butter due to possible salmonella.” I think the big news here is that Smuckers makes peanut butter.
* It’s amazing how many people don’t even try to be quiet at the library, especially discussing the intimate details of their legal troubles.
* But, he’s wearing a baseball cap inside the library. So it’s not a huge surprise. He has the demeanor of a high-functioning meth-head.
* I feel my son’s pain; he’s creating a website by hand and I remember well the frustration when an image won’t pop up or code won’t work.
