I'm about halfway through the John Adams HBO miniseries. Shit's good. History has never been my subject but I've always been interested in/inspired by the founding fathers and John Adams was among those that I knew the least about. Well, okay, there was a girl I had a crush on in like the 2nd grade whose last name was Adams and apparently she
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My friend says "Alex, you shouldn't be so down on yourself," and I remind him of my misfortunes. He goes "Well, you beat out, like, hundreds of millions of sperm to be born. You're a winner!" I said "No. I'm a twin. I tied. Couldn't even win that one."
This morning, AV CLUB posted a fantastic article titled Drawing-Board Confessional: 22 unflattering moments from autobiographical comics, and thus reminded me what I love about the form. Last year I wrote reviews on two of the comics featured in the article; Ed Brubaker's A Complete Lowlife and Joe Matt's Spent. I said this about the former:
I go through these phases where I post and post and post and post, so if you are only friends with me on here out of some kind of courtesy and don't like seeing my out-dated icon so many times on your screen, please don't worry. It wont last long.
My pal Domenick and I were talking the other day and I brought up the subject of work and
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