Plus it gives me a chance to play around with my Flickr account:


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Comic books arrived and had some of their greatest circulation numbers just before WWII, when the country was stumbling in and out of the Great Depression. Sadly, the numbers have slowly but surely been going down since then, with brief bits of resurgence followed by further shrinkage.

There was a while, though, when the country was in the midst of ( Read more... )

This doubles as a test to see if the whole deviantArt-to-LiveJournal embedding trick works, as well as to let people who follow my LJ but not my dA account know that I am, sometimes, doing stuff. If you're watching me on dA you may have seen these before; if not, well, here they are. Click on the links for more info on what exactly is going on.



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OMEGA ARCANE

Obnoxious, smartassed Internet-arguing loner Fix Olsen has just stumbled across an Orb Arcane, an alien device that grants the one who possesses it amazing powers. Suddenly, his life is becoming much like that of the characters in the comics and manga he reads, with alien ninja princesses appearing on his doorstep and powerful evil foes ( Read more... )

But the camera was right there. And rainingbells , florence_chan , and coraje  were all doin' it! So...

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with the picture.


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As mentioned a few entries back, I'm interested in redesigning my websites, and as part of that urge, I'm looking closely at my other web presences and wondering how they'd fit in some Brave New Colin Wales Webscape.

Like this LiveJournal, for instance. I've got, what--? 25 people watching me, 16 of which I've friended back, and of that 16 I'm ( Read more... )

ITEM ONE

You know, there's no earthly reason why I should not have a completed album of music out by the end of the year, even if I have to throw together another avant-garde collection of noises and bloops that nobody but me will like.

ITEM TWO

If you had asked me yesterday, I would have told you that removing and replacing a broken cup-holder in ( Read more... )

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"I'm 42!"

"Shut up and go to work, who gives a shit."

Dear Retards:

I've seen you around for a long while now, and it seems like decades since you first introduced me to Moderately Plain Girl and Stoned-Looking Supposedly A Hunk Guy and incredulously informed me that they got married and had sex enough times to at least produce seven children.

Well, good for them. I don't know why that's such a ( Read more... )

And it's not RIAA lawsuits or pop mediocrity or cheating the artists, no. This is something much more important.

Some background:

Back when I was a kid, back before I ever had enough money to buy albums for myself, back in the days before these silvery See Dee things ever appeared, there were ads on TV for record albums of various sorts, mostly ads ( Read more... )