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.

* Anyone who thinks Jesus cares who wins a football game doesn’t know much about Jesus.

* Plattsburgh, NY feels more like Canada than Los Estados Unidos. Signs in French. Currency exchange!

* In a just universe, gin would be the best cure for dehydration.

* We were supposed to have 50 MPH winds tonight. And I think I hear them now. The cat wants to go outside, but he would blow away.

* Getting up in the night just to pee, $2.95. Remembering there’s laundry to be taken out of the dryer? PRICELESS.

* When I pass a car with blackout tinting I like to stare right where the driver probably is, just to make them wonder if I can see them.

* It is a basic human right that the needs of the weakest be addressed before the wants of the strongest.

* Ron Garney, Tom Raney and Mike McKone might be my three favourite regularly working superhero artists at the moment.

* Two guys come into Subway together, wearing the same company uniform, then sit at separate tables and don’t talk. Wonder what the story is.

* If there’s a better reason to have kids than waking up to find out they made red velvet cupcakes and saved you one, I can’t think of it.

* When you’ve had a red velvet cupcake at 2AM, the rest of the day will probably pale in comparison.

* That thing when you bite into an apple and you bite so much you get some of the core? Hate that.

*  ”Faux-arty” is too long for Twitter. Just abbreviate to “farty.”

* One time I pasted a “30” on the February page of the calendar in a radio studio. Morning guy said it was February 30th all morning. #hahaha

* Hey, it’s a leap year. Didn’t know that. Nice that we get an extra day before the end of the world.

* 2012: The year people start saying Twenty-Twelve and stop being stupid. Welcome to it.

* 2011 closes with me getting the best possible news — I got a new job, and start on the first workday of the new year, Tuesday.

 

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.

* Watching Wrath of Khan. So strange it’s almost 30 years old. In my mind’s eye, this is forever how the original Star Trek cast will be. LLAP

* Why is every spaceship in every TV show and movie every made always right-side up in relation to every other one it encounters? #nogravity

*Sad to think how many of the actors are gone now. Those who played Khan. McCoy. Scotty. Terrell. Doctors Carol and David Marcus.

* Count me among those who believe Carol Marcus was the “little blonde lab technician” Gary Mitchell spoke of in Where No Man Has Gone Before.

* Admiral Kirk’s uniform looks damn sharp in Wrath of Khan.

* Remember when Joachim from Wrath of Khan played a bad guy on General Hospital? I do.

* “My love has wings, slender, feathered things; with grace in upswept curve and tapered tip.” — Tarbolde, 1996

* Finally watched Burn After Reading by the Coen brothers. Not quite Fargo good, but very, very entertaining with touches of brilliance.

* Trump hates the payroll tax cut and unemployment extensions? Good, now I KNOW they’re a good thing.

* Thank you to Congress and Preznit Obama for allowing us to scrape by a couple more months before complete financial devastation kicks in.

* Amazed by all the year-end best-of music lists. I don’t think one single song penetrated my consciousness this year.

* Spent 60 dollars on candy for holiday gift giving, but my doctor can rest easy — only ate one chocolate covered pretzel from my son’s bag.

* Here’s my list of the 10 best comics I read in 2011: http://troublewithcomics.com/post/14667917958/adds-10-best-comics-of-2011

* Me: “Tim said he has to go to the Big and Fat store.” Wife: “You mean the Big and Tall store?” Me: “I never see any tall people in there.”

* Having spent two days re-watching the movie and listening to the commentary by @ebertchicago, Dark City may be my favourite movie.

* It touches on feelings of loss and longing for a past that may not exist that resonate very powerfully and viscerally within me.

* The desire of John Murdock to find Shell Beach strikes me as a metaphor for an almost indescribable universal hole we all have in our souls.

* One friend who doesn’t read comics is reading V for Vendetta. One who does read comics told me he “couldn’t get through” Watchmen. #gofigure

* I believe superhero comic art has suffered a monumental loss as a result of pencils/inks/letters no longer being on the same physical page.

* There’s no question I read as few superhero comics as I do in part because technology has turned them into something I can’t see as comics.

* True story: an ex-girlfriend of mine once suggested someone fax me a cheeseburger. “You can fax paper, why not cheeseburgers?”

* I once worked with a guy named Dave Clark who had never heard of the Dave Clark Five.

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.

* “The consumer is simply an income stream and exploiting that is the purpose of the banking organization.” 

* 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.

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.

Watchmen 2 comics: Bad idea, and a shitty move, DC. I will lose respect for anyone involved. Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right.

It’s funny how if my wife had a Twitter feed I would read it religiously, and yet I don’t think she could even find mine.

I remember the first time I ever heard The Beatles on the radio. My mom was driving in St. Augustine; Penny Lane came on and blew my mind.

She bought me the blue greatest hits LP within an hour. One of the greatest gifts she gave me, and there were many. Star Trek. Comics. Life.

Library Of America is like the Criterion Collection of books.

Anyone else think this report of “wild zoo animals” attacking people is a cover-up for a zombie outbreak?

Dumbest comics-related question I think I have ever seen: “Isn’t Ann Nocenti really Roy Thomas?”

Another TRAGEDY as an Indy car driver is killed in a crash during a race going 220 MPH. If only it somehow could have been avoided. If only.

There’s an appealing irony in the fact that the U.S. is ending its immoral war in Iraq because it doesn’t want to be liable for its actions.

“I think bold conservatism will save the country.” - Sean Hannity. For “bold” substitute “cruel.” For “conservatism” substitute “thuggery.”

American Exceptionalism: The idea that everyone should play fair and act legally, except us.

A real editor is the partner and servant of the writer.

I hate when someone writes a blog post and says they wrote a blog. It’s like writing a newspaper column and saying “I wrote a newspaper.”

A blog is a medium of expression, like a book, a movie or a magazine. The individual posts comprising it are “posts,” not “blogs.”

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.

Listening to a Stephen Hawking audiobook and making meatloaf. That’s just how I roll. Hey, rolls would be good with the meatloaf!

Currently reading LIFE ITSELF: A MEMOIR by @ebertchicago. One chapter in, already mesmerized by his ability to evoke emotion through memory.

Anyone who says “any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military,” obviously has never known anyone IN the military.

Really glad the audiences at the GOP debates are showing the Tea Baggers for the bigoted, dangerous assholes that they undeniably are. The Tea Party is one step above a lynch mob; rabid, filled with hate and ready to attack. Hopefully Los Estados takes the warning.

The news R.E.M. will make no new music bothers me only slightly more than the news that the Beatles will make no new music. They were both great bands, but I already thought of R.E.M. as existing mostly in the past.

Kind of funny that young punks who hate spelling it “comix” are forced to to read digital issues on comixology.

Thanks to everyone who voted for me in Comics Buyer’s Guide’s The 100 Sexiest Women in Comic Books. I’m only at #72, so Pilates ahoy!

Why is class warfare a bad thing? Wasn’t the Revolutionary War class warfare?

Thanks to everyone with the courage to #takewallstreet. You are true American heroes, and we’re grateful for what you’re doing.

 

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.

I question why any sane adult would want to be branded a “fan.” I’m a reader, myself. Fan implies a level of awe I don’t have.

Happy birthday to my wife, Lora, who doesn’t read my Twitter feed and thus will never see this. If my wife had a Twitter feed, I would read it. Just sayin’.

There was tons of potential left for Bucky Barnes, even if he stepped down as Cap once Steve Rogers took over the identity once more. Bucky’s death in Fear Itself felt random and pointless, and not in the good, “death IS random and pointless” manner. At the very least, Bucky’s death should have had some emotional weight to it, which it didn’t. 

Was going to expand my thoughts into a post for Trouble With Comics, then I remembered Marvel has not made it right with the Kirby family. MAKE IT RIGHT, MARVEL.

I don’t know why I didn’t eliminate retweets from my timeline before. If it’s really important, people will write about it themselves.

Watching workers take a no-doubt cherished 15 minute break and use it to smoke, shortening the future minutes of their lives.

Glenn Beck mocks Obama for staying on vacation during quake and Irene. Meanwhile, Beck is broadcasting his paranoia from Africa. Stay there.

My wife shares a birthday with Jack Kirby. I share one with Geoff Johns. My wife wins.

Local newspaper says “Community has mixed feelings about second Walmart.” Mine are disgust and horror. 

Danica is joining NASCAR? I always wondered what she did after The Wonder Years.

I see President Carter is trending. Recognition, perhaps, that he was the last decent human being to occupy the Oval Office?

The art in Teen Titans #100 amazed me. I didn’t know there was a Jerry Ordway clone.

Who’s the genius that scheduled all the Retroactive DC titles this month and Teen Titans: Games next month, as the entire line is rebooted?

Great comics from the last couple of years: LOEG: Century; Neonomicon; Wilson; Criminal; Mister Wonderful.

Supergods is a confused auto-hagiography by a smug, self-satisfied author. I’m amazed any publisher found it worthy of publication.

Morrison’s earliest paragraphs about Alan Moore so drip with jealousy and resentment that I had to grab a bucket to catch it all.

In Supergods, Morrison refers to the Vietnamese woman in Watchmen breaking a beer bottle “Glasgow pub style.” When did she visit Scotland?

I’m going to send my two kids out to hug the tree in our yard so it doesn’t fall over when Irene gets here.

Never read a Dan Zettwoch comic I didn’t like!

Guest host on Limbaugh today using codewords to deliver a heavily racist message and make bigots feel good about their hate.

Two angry old men in supermarket parking lot. Man #1: “I’ve lived long enough to know how to park!” Man #2: “You’ve lived too long, old man!” That just happened in the parking lot of my local Hannaford. I thought they were going to get into a fistfight. Disappointed they didn’t. And by the way, Man #1 did NOT know how to park. He was WAY off center in his spot. I just HAD to check and see for myself.

As if his recent shitty DC comics weren’t enough, Grant Morrison’s pompous and arrogant blatherings in recent interviews really turn me off. How I long for the Morrison who wrote Marvel Boy and JLA Earth 2 and let the comics do the talking. In a related note, Grant, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 is really fucking good.

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.

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.

* Donald Westlake used “could of” instead of “could have” or “could’ve” as shorthand for the intelligence/personality of some of his characters. It’s not always an error.

* MoveOn has put together a damning list of the GOP’s recent campaign against women. Rather frightening. http://t.co/9I1MgbS

* I dig @ruckawriter’s Atticus Kodiak novels in pretty much exactly the same way I do the Donald Westlake/Richard Stark’s Parker ones.

* The Parker novels are just like crack cocaine to me, especially the latter ones. So focused and tight it’s amazing.

* I wish you all were reading Westlake along with me. I love noticing the little touches in his writing. He was fond of the word “jounced.”

* Reading Donald Westlake’s Pity Him Afterwards from ‘64. May be his bleakest and most disturbing novel, told from a madman’s perspective.

* Donald Westlake’s Pity Him Afterwards is like a Parker novel where Parker is a serial killer instead of a thief. Psychopath AND sociopath.

* Just finished Westlake’s Help I Am Being Held Prisoner, which is a comedy but worked for me, unlike the overly broad Dortmunder novels.

* Help… was like Westlake’s whimsical version of The Shawshank Redemption. Written long before, of course.

* I am usually repulsed by whimsy, but Help… had it in the right blend with suspense and a convincing prison setting.

* The lead character being named Harry Kunt (pronounced Koont, with an umlaut), nearly put me off. I can be easily turned away by whimsy.

* Why there should be a case against George W. Bush under torture law - http://bit.ly/hZlRVu

* Union-busting. Woman-destroying. The next Civil War is just a few more Republican attacks on the American way of life away.

* If our unionized neighbours continue to receive a fair wage, they will spend that money helping revive the economy. Unlike the GOP.

* First ep of Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior not nearly good enough. Writing 3/10, acting 5/10. Not even a patch on the original CM.

* The 20-40 percent off promised in the email I got about our local closing Borders was not even close enough to convince me to go.

* All-Star Superman is the best Superman film ever done. Second best would be the animated Superman-Batman movie.

* There goes the noon whistle. Does your town have a noon whistle? We also have a Noon Whistle Deli, although I have never eaten there.

* We have a large paper factory that used to employ many more than it does now and goes back over a century. The noon whistle started there.

* There’s a church bell downtown that I think goes off every hour during the day, but we’re on the edge of town and don’t hear it.

* GOP to cut aid for schools, nutrition programs, environmental protection, and heating/housing subsidies for the poor. http://n.pr/f9TTjR

* Local Blockbuster had the whole sign lit tonight. For years it had just read “USTER” at night.

* Conservatives say fuck you and your health, America, especially you stupid women: http://on.cnn.com/fWKEhP

* Distressed by the hateful actions of Conservatives in Wisconsin and the U.S House, keep in mind: THEY ARE JUST GETTING STARTED.

* Hannity says Obama’s acting more like a community organizer than President of the U.S. when it comes to Wisconsin. It’s about fucking time.

* SPACE INVADERS, the best 1970s comic Roy Thomas and Jim Steranko never teamed up on.

* The best art films of 2010 according to @ebertchicago: http://bit.ly/elhwtT

* The truth about how Wisconsin’s governor has manipulated the situation there to destroy unions: http://bit.ly/f69iLf

* It’s amazing to me our female cat is always angry at the male cat, but when he wants her breakfast, she just moves off and lets him have it.

* My take on the Obama Nation controversy: http://troublewithcomics.com/post//is-obama-nation-racist-or-just-stupid

* Just heard the long, lonesome train whistle I hear from time to time. I have no idea where the hell the train tracks are around here.

* Actual ways to get your real credit score free: http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/free-credit-score/

* James Kochalka talks about the possibility of retiring his American Elf daily diary strip: http://bit.ly/eCIRfK

* They’re all dead and the island is the afterlife. Also, Rosebud is the sled.

* Am I the only one who thinks of The Muppets every time I see or hear a reference to Manama, Bahrain?

* Glenn Beck is “the evil spreading around the globe.” Pass it on.

* Excellent piece by @Comics212 Christopher Butcher on RSS feeds and how you engage (or not) with your readers: http://bit.ly/eCuDH5

* Are we really to take seriously an opinion on a woman’s right to choose from a child with the experience and sophistication of a tadpole?

* My closest Borders is closing, in Saratoga Springs. Full list here: http://on.wsj.com/faieV6

* Phew. A lot of stuff off my chest in a private email. Wish I could say it all in public.

* You know, the internet is awesome until it’s not, and then it is the worst thing ever invented. How spoiled we are!

* One program to rule them all: HootSuite. Problem solved.

* Using Internet Explorer makes me feel dirty.

* Made General Tso’s tofu for dinner, with chopped pecans, peppers, onions and celery over brown rice. Damned yummy if I do say so myself.

* How come almost none of the good Mountain Dew flavours come in diet? I really miss Diet Code Red. I’d even settle for Diet Ultra Violet.

* Still waiting for an American President brave and honest enough to say the U.S has been on the wrong side of history, even once.

* At the high school for a meeting. Just noticed the smell of school lunch. Haven’t smelled school lunch since 1981. Smells exactly the same.

* John Byrne is as crazy as a bag of cats that just had a bag of hammers thrown into it.

* Let’s hope Obama’s 2012 budget provides massive funding to care for the American people, and zero dollars to kill innocents abroad.

* The Office was really good this week. I can see how they are slowly working up to Michael’s final, time-travel filled episode.

* Best line from this week’s Big Bang Theory? “Oh, the Humanities!”

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.

* Dreamed that Steve Carrell’s last episode of The Office is a time travel story a la Back To The Future II, revisiting old episodes. In the dream, Larry Wilmore guest-starred but was not playing his character from earlier in the series. I really dig Larry Wilmore so this is not a surprise. For the record, I strongly doubt Steve Carrell’s last episode of The Office will feature either time travel or Larry Wilmore.

* Algeria is the new Egypt. You heard it here first.

* Congratulations to CPAC for recreating political enthusiasm not seen since 1934! USA! USA! http://bit.ly/B7sfw

* Every picture of someone at the CPAC podium makes me think of Hitler. Just sayin’.

* A film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged that doesn’t acknowledge Rand/Objectivism’s flaws will be as relevant and entertaining as Battlefield: Earth. In keeping with Ayn Rand’s recently revealed government dependence, perhaps the producers should apply for a grant from the NEA. David Lynch’s Atlas Shrugged, I’d watch.

* If the Egyptians can make freedom work, maybe the U.S. will be able to follow their example. One can hope.

* Why can’t the rest of America care as much about its people as Vermont does? Single-Payer Health Plan Proposed: http://t.co/guAL1ct

* It’s nice that on the same day Egypt is freed from tyranny, Vermont takes a step toward freeing itself from the tyrant health care system.

* Please help stop conservatives from suppressing truth. Sign the petition to demand government funding for NPR and PBS: http://bit.ly/eRAk8K

* Is there a stupider or more dangerous idea than the drive-thru pharmacy? http://www.jimplagakis.com/?p=3697

* Remember when David Brent introduced himself using Tina Turner’s Simply The Best on The Office? Watch this dick do it! http://huff.to/faYDQg. Actually, the guy standing behind him kind of looks like David Brent with end-stage syphilis. Apologies to Ricky Gervais. But it’s true!

* Anyone else agree with me that Twitter is becoming a global communication system that feels like assisted telepathy?

* Incognito #3 is dark, violent and awesome. Pleased to read in the backmatter by @brubaker that the Criminal HC is in its 4th printing.

* Just heard Hannity totally pwned on his own show. Asked if he fears those coming to power in Egypt, caller said he fears those in power here more. Hannity was gobsmacked. Seems like the Egyptian uprising is leaving the radical American Taliban like Hannity and Beck with nowhere to find traction. Hannity says “everyone” knew Egypt would explode eight months ago. So how come he hasn’t mentioned it until the last two weeks?

* @davidwynne Your tweet about Russell Brand reminds me of the time a DJ in his 60s referred on the air to “that Britisher David Lee Roth.”

* Every time I see the name SULEIMAN online, my brain tells me it says SUPERMAN.

* @MattSpringer The standard format for digital comics is .cbr/.cbz. Anything else is doomed to fail. The industry will be shuttered and abandoned before they realize it. “Hey, you know what we should have done?” Hell, make the comics free and charge up the wazoo for ads millions of people will see. I bet Diamond didn’t talk to @comicsreporter before launching their soon-to-fail digital initiative. They should have: http://bit.ly/fENY3H

* @yanbasque Apparently the designers of Diamond’s digital comics initiative don’t own a computer or know anyone who does.

* All right, time to go get the pants the one-hour cleaners have had for two weeks. Wish me luck!

* Some conservatives STILL say “homicide bomber” when they talk about suicide bombers. The Unabomber was a homicide bomber, you idiots.

* I really think Unabomber should be spelled “Unibomber” since he was bombing UNIversities and “Unabomber” sounds like UN-a-bomber in my head.

* You know a phrase Hitler would have loved? “German Exceptionalism.” http://youaredumb.net/node/1714

* The Chicago Code is another winner from Shawn Ryan. One episode in and I’m craving more. Glad to have a great crime drama back on my viewing schedule.

* Shared everything I know about social networking today. Not that that’s a huge amount, but I learned a few things too.

* Goddamn it, AOL should’ve talked to me about Comic Book Galaxy before buying The Huffington Post. Would have given them a far better price.

* Let’s all remember Reagan’s legacy: Greed, death and the determined disregard for the suffering of poor people everywhere. Burn in hell.

* The chapter on Obamacare in Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia makes me want to punch something. EVERYTHING.

* I asked my wife which Star Trek character has a cat and what is the cat’s name? - “It’s Data. Is the cat Mister Pickles?”

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