Today’s going to be one of those days, I can feel it already, with a dozen smallish separate workloads (worklets?) piled like rubble against the non-existent door of my office at the day job…
A major embarrassment of my life as a pop-culture geek, TV watcher, animation fan, admirer of anarchic humor, etc. etc., is that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cartoons'
Bart Seinstein
November 13th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Tags: Cartoons · Celebrities · Science & Medicine · Television · The Online World
Placeholder Post: Defeating the Aliens
October 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
[Working today on tomorrow's post -- my contribution to tomorrow's Halloween Blogapalooza blog party, hosted by travel writer Angela Nickerson.
In the meantime, I thought you might find this useful. For, y'know, when They land and we have to, like, fight our way out of impending intergalactic apocalypse and stuff. Dude, these people know.]
Tags: Cartoons · Celebrities · Movies · The Online World
Somebody Else’s Perfect Moment
October 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
There’s a particular category of human experience unlike any other. It’s got nothing to do with personality or intelligence; it crosses geographic and linguistic borders as if they didn’t exist (because they don’t, except in our minds and on the paper where we record the products of those faulty machines). Such an experience comes and [...]
Tags: Art & Photography · Cartoons · Perfect Moments · Ruminations · Running After My Hat · The Online World
Writing to Deadline
September 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I have always had a weird affinity for the cartoonist Jack Ziegler, whom I first encountered in The New Yorker. He’s not their most prolific contributor — these days, you might find his work once in every three or four issues. Time was, though, when he put in an appearance weekly. And for whatever reason, [...]
Tags: Cartoons · Style and Craft · Writing
You Can Run but You Can’t Hide
September 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments
From whiskey river:
All you can do is this: Whatever you experience, whether tangible or intangible, look underneath the experience, like a child looking for a lizard under a stone. You’re not expecting anything to be there, but you’re always wondering if there might be.
(Richard Leviton)
Not from whiskey river:
One of life’s primal situations; the game of [...]
Tags: Cartoons · Language · Ruminations
