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ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Dear idiotic Amazon leeches,
The fact that you have a new-ish copy of an out of print book does not mean that you can sell a comic that is 96 pages long for 75 dollars.
Nor can you charge 63 or 38 dollars for a used copy.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Love,
Blair -
this is the way to end a summer.
This is a scary and exciting feeling ( Read more... ) -
moral: cheap stuff is awesome.
I keep forgetting to write on here -- I wrote a bit about the comics festival in Toronto that I was at, uh, two weeks ago now, and I still have to finish that and post it ( Read more... ) -
The White Stripes are still pretty much the best.
Meg White really looks so good in the Icky Thump video, it's not funny.
Bonus: what in the hell are you doing jack white
Bonus video link: Secret White Stripes show on a bus in Winnipeg. Jack White plays Hotel Yorba real pretty, but the real star of the show is the guy somewhere behind the person shooting, who is shouting THEY GOT ON THE BUS ( Read more... ) -
another thing
I like how A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles and Here Comes Your Man by the Pixies both begin with that single chord. I assume that the latter is a homage to the former? Unless there are a lot of songs that begin with a single chord strum that I haven't heard. i really need to go to bed, don't i
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the a.v. club is better than the actual onion, you know it's true
"When I was in Italy doing this press-interview day, this guy asked me, "Are you a tortured soul?" It's embarrassing to have somebody think you're a tortured soul, or that you think of yourself as a tortured soul."
- Will Sheff of Okkervil River, interviewed at the Onion A.V. Club (link)
(Also they interviewed Chris Onstad, and the article has an ( Read more... ) -
a pause.
It's been a little autumnal lately, and I've been in a pensive mood that I tend to associate with fall. It's something of a sad feeling, but it's the sort of fresh, hopeful sadness that pushes you out of something rather than into it ( Read more... ) -
Toronto Comic Arts Festival and also large amounts of shame.
I was thinking about gracing everyone with another tear-shedding, woe-is-me, utterly emo entry about how my life consists of plateaus and valleys or something like that, but instead, I thought I would say this.
I am going to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival tomorrow! In the words of the website linked, it "exists to promote the breadth and ( Read more... ) -
old-ish entry, publishing the relevant bits
Hey hey, it is time for summer break. I had Programming, my last exam, last Wednesday ( Read more... ) -
naps.
It fascinates me endlessly that there's a point of no return for afternoon naps. That you can sleep for too long and then you're pretty much mush. It happened to me once during the school year -- I'd had a late night and then I came home and went to bed for an hour or two, and when I got up I just wasn't quite with it. For the rest of the night, I ( Read more... )
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