After Mr Mxyzptlk accidentally kills Batman, Bat-Mite kills Superman with a miniature red sun and a giant magnifying glass. From World's Funnest, art by Dave Gibbons. Happy Superman day!
Happy Superman Day!
@haymarketbooks.org Someone put the admin link in the sale banner at the top of the site so the link to the AFSC sale post doesn't work.
www.haymarketbooks.org/admin/blog_p... should be www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/543-af...
There's also a mistaken second link that goes to one book only.
Because @ironspike.bsky.social quote post this with a great @evandorkin.bsky.social page, here's mine from @davidlapham.bsky.social. The last page of Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #25, where Beth, Kretch and Spanish Scott finally get away to Santa Fe for some bonding time over peyote.
Now *that's* writing. Evan Dorkin is one of the best in the business.
I hadn’t heard but knew immediately what this was about.
This is strange. Please check your Bluesky settings on alt text and update. Mine definitely worked two days ago and was unchecked when I looked just now.
Requiring alt text should be the default. Normalize accessibility.
Text overlaying a speech balloon. The speech balloon says the following (split over 5 lines): "I rarely get to hear your voice since you're not much for conversation… and I do so love your timbre. So won't you read?" Colliding with the words "I rarely get" and "much for" at the beginning of the first and third lines are the following editorial directions: "Fix this page -red layer." The story is printed in black ink with spot red (and gray and pink halftones).
Is this a quirky copy of ex.mag 05 by @peow.bsky.social, or does this editorial note collide with this speech balloon in all copies? “Fix this page -red layer”
Thanks for this. I'm so out of the loop, I didn't know they did a 5, let alone a 6.
frame: anything goes if it's immigration enforcement
negation: the government is not actually allowed to lie their way into a residence to kidnap people
kirby: THEY'RE FASCISTS DOING FASCISM. laws are an expression of power, not the source of it
Years ago when I was out of work and living off a pension I needed to cash in, lining up for rotisserie chicken when the price dropped on Sunday night fed our family for DAYS.
"All the languages of art have been developed as an attempt to transform the instantaneous into the permanent."
— John Berger, The White Bird (1985)
But my favorite is A.E. Housman. He savaged other scholars in footnotes and commentaries, and his essay “The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism” is brilliant and scathing, where he says that most people are stupid or vain, either repeating received opinions or hunting novelty.
Considering how niche this is, you should be able to find sources using the names. I changed careers and haven’t looked back, but I’m pretty sure I have a book somewhere about polemics in classical philology, which should be a bigger field. I’ll see if I can find it.
Nietzsche was a classicist before illness forced him to focus on writing. He had major beef with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, who became a giant in classical philology, but was not yet a professor. Erwin Rohde pointedly called them Professor Nietsche and Doctor Wilamowitz. Get a job, Ulrich!
screenshot of Plaintext Panic, Mac word game that looks like an Apple II game, green phosphorus text
experience 1983, today
ROM fan art with the caption, "Dear Avalanch, Get Well Soon!" Avalanche, in full costume, lies in a hospital bed with arms bandaged, head on hand in frustration, looking at cards that say things like, "Get well soon!" He says, "Bah!" The wall behind and the floor beneath the bed are cracked. In the foreground are flowers from various characters, including Blob. The art is signed, "Yours truly, Evan Dorkin."
Here's the ROM fan art from 1982 that came up in the AMA. I own the issue and thought it'd be fun to share.
And yet, not so niche that I’ll ever be able to do one measly Robert Pollard emote while they release yet another Bruno Mars variant skin.
Which is why you get Star Wars, Disney villains, and the Simpsons, but also Skibidi Toilet, Evil Dead, Tik Tok dances, Wu Tang Clan and on and on.
I would say that Fortnite isn’t aimed at anyone. It’s spraying everywhere at all times, and its collabs are a mix of 1. corporate partnerships (e.g., Disney, who gushed re: the relationship that Fortnite is many kids’ first Disney experience) and 2. diverse niche markets like memes and nostalgia.
"There will be no graduation.
There will be no trumpets blowing
in the light that passes through me.
With the sinking of the sun,
I've come to greet you.
Clean your hands and go to sleep."
— Guided by Voices, Glad Girls
There's so much poetry between the choruses.
In big personal news, I'm making time to read, and I owe it to a lucky moment of doomscrolling. denmchenry.com/posts/bradbu...
If anybody wants to stop producing videos for their YouTube channel, let me know and I’ll subscribe. That always seems to do the trick.
What a blast from the past. (B.A. in Classical Languages, 2002.) I did an independent study in Hellenistic poetry with Brian when he was still the new guy in the department.
GiveLively wrote back immediately and updated my address. Looking forward to the bookmatch.
@nplusonemag.com Asking for a friend (me, an idiot), but is there any way to let someone know I mistyped my email address for the bookmatch donation? I emailed GiveLively.
I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.
All academic sources indicate that the origin is the other way around, i.e., that the origin is English, even though the etymology is uncertain.
Louis C.K.'s set in Riyadh is going to be like, "Women want to drive cars. Women WANT to drive cars. They WANT to. You WANT to? Who wants to drive a car? I wish someone would tell me I wasn't allowed to drive a car. Please!"
I miss your podcast, the healthiest parasocial relationship ever, feeling at home listening to you and Paul talk about horror. This is one of the gems I'm thankful to you for sharing.