I was stopped at a traffic light when I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a profound political message. The car behind me was being driven by an elderly woman who had several pieces of paper taped onto her rear window to form a political opinion. I was intrigued enough to puzzle out the message that appeared backwards in my rear view mirror ( Read more... )

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When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said a "cartoonist." Now that I am drawing again as well as writing, what if I combined them once more and see what happens?

In order to reacquaint myself with comics theory once more, I have turned to Scott McCloud. If you don't know already, Scott McCloud has written a series of graphic ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went with my fellow Shining Creamsicles to see Cory Doctorow read from his new book, Little Brother. Although I knew he was a fellow sci-fi writer, I had never read any of his books and knew of him mainly through his blogging at BoingBoing, which I consider one of the best blogs the interweb has to offer ( Read more... )

Seeing this commerical again is like, wow...

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As Stolen From pmegan:

You Had a Fantastic Year!
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The other night I finished the novel. Yes, the one I've been saying I was going to write for the past 8 years or so. It is almost 350 pages and I printed out a hard copy yesterday afternoon. It took over an hour and a trip down to Kinko's to get another print cartridge, but now it exists in reality ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, the Republican Party held a debate for the declared Presidential candidates in South Carolina. The big story that has come out of the debates has been Rudy Giuliani taking exception with the remarks of Rep. Ron Paul, who said that the 9-11 attacks were motivated in part by the United States bombing Iraq for 10 years. Here is a clip of ( Read more... )

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