Thursday, February 14, 2008
Leisure Town
If you haven’t seen it, Leisure Town is a dark, twisted and funny comic from the early part of this decade is something to behold. It was done by an artist in San Francisco using a lot of plastic animal toys and photoshop. The amount of work that goes into each story is impressive. But I wouldn’t want to live in that guy’s head.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Desperate One
I have to admit I’ve been rooting for Obama to win the nomination for the Dems. Of the Democratic candidates I feel he has the best platform and seems to most rational. He is not my choice for president. To be honest, no one is. Except maybe Ron Paul at this stage. I am not rooting for McCain who I supported on 2000.
Anyway, Hillary looks done, but she is not giving up. She intends to screw the voters and get the nomination by ramming it down everyone’s throats.
Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote, but persuades enough superdelegates to vote for her at the convention, her campaign advisers say.
The New York senator, who lost three primaries Tuesday night, now lags slightly behind her rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, in the delegate count. She is even further behind in “pledged’‘ delegates, those assigned by virtue of primaries and caucuses.
But Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton’s communications director, Howard Wolfson.
Yeah, you read that right. The Clintons believe in Democracy as long as you vote for them. And it’s for reasons like this that I am rooting for Obama. I kind of like him anyway, though I don’t think he can handle foreign policy. In these times, that would be a problem.
Hillary on the other hand would be a disaster in far too many areas. The Clinton’s foreign policy empowered and emboldened Al Qaeda (according to Osama Bin Laden), they were arguably the most corrupt administration in our lifetimes and I don’t see that changing if Hillary were in charge. And talk about pandering. This picture says it all.
I seriously doubt the delegates will do what she wants if Obama keeps winning states. People afraid of her before. But you know what happens when a feared person stumbles and falls. Their so called friends and allies look for some other bandwagon to ride.
No, I think Hillary is all but over. But I want to be sure before I start celebrating.
10 Videos Covering the COS Protests
It’s the first internet driven world wide protest. Here are some slices of what happened last weekend.
The next protest is scheduled on March 15th. L. Ron’s birthday.
Grossest Foods
Boy, the last time I did a list like this I thought it couldn’t be topped. I was wrong.
Smoku on the Mizu Des
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Making Bacon
Scamming the Scammers
This is a hilarious page full o examples where people have scammed Nigerian 419 scammers. Those people who send you emails claiming there’s a huge fortune over there that they need to deposit in your bank account for some reason or another.
The last one on the page had me LMAO. You gotta love it.
Monday, February 11, 2008
If You Were Wondering…
Where did those protesters get those V For Vendetta masks. The answer is probably Amazon.
RIP: Steve Gerber
I am very sorry to inform you that my friend Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck and a host of other comics, has passed away from complications of pneumonia. Steve was a great writer and a funny guy. He was also a good friend and he will be sorely missed.
Mark Evanier did a great write up on him here. He knew Steve longer than I have, but I’ve known him since 1984. He was a semi-regular attendee of our monthly writer meetings in Las Vegas. It was a writer thing that started with Steve and I having lunch together after he moved to Vegas. Len Strazewski would join us twice a year when he came to town. And then Bill Willingham and Steven Grant joined us when they moved to town. Followed by Gilbert Hernandez. We all got along and had a good time and we were always glad when Steve could join us.
But he had been battling a lung disease in the last few years. Pulmonary fibrosis. It started after he quit smoking. In the last few years he had to carry an oxygen tank everywhere and he got short of breath very easily. He was scheduled to get a lung transplant in December after being on a waiting list for a while. But he didn’t make it that far.
I was looking forward to seeing him the next time I visited Vegas. I saw him at a farewell dinner we had when I was leaving last September. He was upbeat about getting his operation, even though it has a 50% survival rate. We were all hoping he would be around for years to come. This makes me really sad.
UPDATE: This is an excellent overview of Steve’s Career. He would have been embarrassed by the praise heaped on him. He was a very humble person. But I agree with the author that he was a one of a kind voice in the business. Under-appreciated, but widely admired by his peers.
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