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.
* Owning digital media — music, comics, movies, all of it — will never feel permanent to me. I have to own a physical copy to feel I own it. Maybe I’ve experienced one too many hard-drive failures to really feel “safe” with digital media. Eventually you have to backup your backup. And files in the cloud feel as permanent to me as a popsicle in July. CDs and other physical media may be clumsy and space-consuming, but CD getting scratched is decided by MY actions and diligence. Digital, especially with DRM, means you have no control.
* Advice for the new economy: “Lay back and think of England.”
* The more I think about it, the more it pisses me off that Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness isn’t on that stupid NPR Top 100 SF list.
* I’ve created a profile at about.me listing all the places I bother people on the internet. http://t.co/s7XIkiH
* There are brain-eating amoebas. How can anyone think there’s no life in outer space when we have brain-eating amoebas right here on Earth?
* Here comes tomorrow.
* Local Glens Falls independent bookstore Red Fox Books is closing. It couldn’t compare to The Bookhouse in Albany, but sorry to see it close.
* You know what would be really depressing? Peter Gabriel’s “Don’t Give Up” with Kate Bush edited out.
* Byrne’s X-Men was contemporary and forward-looking; his FF was his first big head-up-his-ass, reinterpreting-the-past-the-RIGHT-way moment. The destruction of Byrne’s talent and career were thereafter built on such wrongheaded mis-steps. We had no way of knowing how far wrong Byrne was going with FF, and I enjoyed it at the time too; in retrospect, it all went wrong there.
* If you oppose gays and gay rights, we ALL know you are pretending to be straight. WE ALL KNOW IT, so STOP. Please RT.
* It should be not only legal, but MANDATORY to burn the slave flag.
* The cats that played Spot on ST: TNG were named Brandy and Monster. The cat that played Spot in my house from 1985-1994 was named Spot.
* Bachmann tells NBC that ”most Democrats are reasonable, fair-minded people.” And they’re “delicious with a honey-barbecue glaze!”
* Had an interesting talk with my son about riots and looting in the UK. Should the police be allowed to shoot someone stealing a PS3? The answer is, hell no. Deadly force should only be used in answer to deadly force. A human life, even a thief’s, is worth more than a PS3.
* “The Republican candidates who squared off in Iowa made several misleading, incomplete or simply false claims.” In other news, water is wet.
* I’ll pray for Rick Perry to become the next president, but vote for Barack Obama. Let’s see whose vote counts more, mine or God’s. If somebody else wins, I guess that’s a draw between me and the equally powerful God.
* Sean Hannity’s show open features the phrase “We’ll put a boot in your ass.” Surprised Hannity would endorse both group sex and assplay. Cheeky!
* There’s no more persuasive argument for ending the American way of life than a visit to Wal-Mart.
* Now with commentary, my list of the best comics of all time: http://t.co/mAaxTeO
* What is the most flavoured nation?
* If you’re “taking to the streets to deter rioters,” chances are pretty good you’re going to be a rioter.
* When me daughter was really little, she thought the place kids went before kindergarten was called “pretty school.” She really wanted to go.
* I should be able to set a 140 character limit on my phone for sending to Twitter. I hate it when I go over and Twitter cuts me off.
* So apparently you can get all 52 of DC’s new number one issues for $104.00 someplace. I seriously wouldn’t want all 52 issues for $1.04.
