I just finished The Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson. My edition was published in the United States by DC Comics, but it is reprinted material from the UK's 2000 A.D., home to Judge Dredd and other famous British properties ( Read more... )

I wrote recently about how I like A9. One of the reasons (other than it saves me a dollar a month or something infinitesimal) is that it can search Wikipedia as well as the Web... and blogs too! On a lark last week I A9'd myself [and several variations of my name] (you know, how you would normally waste time by "Googling" yourself) and I put on the ( Read more... )

I noticed a strange smell on the subway this morning. It was kind of like a combination of bad breath and Binaca (though if you think about it, that combination -- exactly that combination -- is anything but strange ( Read more... )

I was a pretty early adopter of Google due to having altran in my life. Believe it or not there was a point when Shuler -- who is typically very smart and well informed -- was using alltheweb.com and hadn't actually heard of Google.

Anyway I -- gasp -- switched search engines a few months ago to A9. A9 (Read more... )

Y: The Last Man vol. 7 "Paper Dolls" (Vaughan and Various ( Read more... )

I buy precious few floppies now, but it seems like they all fell on the same Wednesday, last.

Astonishing X-Men #14I know, I know. I'm a grownup. Didn't I outgrow X-Men 16 years ago? Probably. Then the X-Men grew up right back with first Grant and now Buffy creator Joss Whedon helming up the flagship team with thought provoking and gorgeously ( Read more... )

When I was a full-time student, that is, reader, one of the things that constantly spurred my thoughts and opinions was the analysis of the techniques by which [other] readers interpreted the texts they read. Ten or so years ago, I thought that deconstruction was the least meritorious branch of analysis, a sore thumb symptom of an overall ( Read more... )

Neal Stephenson is my favorite writer ( Read more... )

An Evening at the Sizzler ( Read more... )

Based on the success of last week's Deckade book signing at Neutral Ground -- plus market forces various -- BDM theorizes that we would be millionaires if we ran an event in Madison, WI... as long as with every book sale, the respective purchasing cheese head would get a shot at me in a dunk tank. Ingenious, right? The problem with this theoretical ( Read more... )