It's New Comic Day!

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Last week I made a tumblr feed for the comic, you can follow it if you like. Beware, though, the alt texts don't show up, you've gotta click through to the site for it! Also it refuses to pick up 'i blame the sea' posts...mysterious.

new comic up today! I'm going to join Joey on the west coast tomorrow! things are Looking Up!

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A new comic goes up today! Joey is lost on the west coast, someone send a ham to his widow. (actually, he's reading in Victoria tonight and Seattle tomorrow, go see him!

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As much as I'm loath to transfer allegiances to the Hot New(-ish) Kid on the Block, I seem to be favouring my tumblr over ol' LJ here these days. I still feel that livejournal has considerable advantages for certain things - the interactivity is very different here, I appreciate being able to receive and give comments, rather than having to reblog ( Read more... )

so we have a Time Capsule, and it's hooked up to an external hard drive that contains our whole music collection. that way we can access it anywhere, and everyone is happy la la la ( Read more... )

Two interesting things from kottke:

- The author of this article about how to disappear has disappeared. If you find him (in any of the 50 US states) you win $5000.

- a short video featuring directors talking about widescreen (of various sorts) vs. pan & scan alterations for TV screens.

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A couple of things: this is clearly going to become ( Read more... )

The Flickr Blog (well worth your time, and a good way to discover other flickr users OR just some damned beautiful photographs. Viewable in different languages, even!) featured some extraordinary shots of hot air balloons at the Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons rally in France.


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Now that the movie list is up, it's time for Book List! As with the movies, an asterisk is a book that I've re-read (though there aren't really any this time). This list took me a lot longer than usual, I've made my reviews a bit more thorough (or as thorough as one can be in a few sentences, anyway).

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Here's my movies-watched list for the first half of 2009. As with last year, asterisks are re-watches. This list doesn't count TV series, of which I've watched Battlefield Britain, Star Trek TNG seasons 1-4 (SO FAR), Mad Men season 2 (getting ready for season 3), Muppet show seasons 1&2 etc etc oh dear ( Read more... )

Before Joey and I left Toronto for his book tour, I called the 24 hour nurses' line to make sure my head wouldn't explode on the plane. I'd never flown with a swollen face before, who knew what might happen? Reassured, I hopped on the tiny plane to Chicago sporting giant sunglasses whenever socially acceptable so as to hide my distressing visage ( Read more... )