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Spiegelman to leave New Yorker

Well, sort of. He’s just not renewing his contract as a staff artist. Big whup, you might say–the interesting thing is the reason he gave. “I find as much fault with David Remnick’s New Yorker as I do with American media in general. It’s insanely timid.” Couldn’t have said it better myself–it’s one thing for [...]

Milligan, and Microsoft

Friend Diana Lutz forwarded me this link, a song parody lamenting Windows 95. Out-of-date, but I thought it was excellent for its type… Also, in its rather morbid “If You Aren’t Depressed Enough Already, Guess Who Died This Year” roundup in the Magazine, the NY Times had an excellent overview and appreciation of Spike Milligan.

Harry Potter, threat or menace?

A wire story reports that Russian authorities are investigating whether the Harry Potter books incite religious hatred. What humbug–intolerant religions cause religious hatred. (What’s Russia for “duh”?) Hope everybody’s Xmas was merry and brite.

Lysistrata lives!

More powerful than any nuclear bomb… Happy Holidays, everybody. Hope your stockings are full!

Slate blasts ex-Beatles

As some of you know, I’m a huge fan of the Beatles, so after Kate passed this along, I had to post it. Cheeky, unfair, but by gosh, not exactly wrong, either: Slate’s David Samuels carves up the post-Beatles output of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison.

Alternative comics, ick!

This week’s Chicago Reader has a 16-page pullout cartoon section; if this is what alternative comics are about these days, count me out. Self-absorbed would be putting it kindly. (At least I limit that side of my personality to a blog! Poor you.) Worse yet, they’re boring. Since when were alternative comics BORING? Let’s look [...]

Neal Pollack’s spoof Best Books of the Year is funny. If you’re me. Which I am.

#2 Again!

The book continues to stagger ‘em in the UK, lowering the tone of Christmas stockings from London to Land’s End, Exeter to Aberdeen. The people at the publishing house are starting to get giddy, so if any of you know anybody there, now’s a pretty good time to borrow five pounds with no intention of [...]

People will write fan-fic about anything…

…quoth Mike Sloan, who found a site with fan-fic about Pong. Here are some of the titles he passed along: “Boop Boop The White Mass Pong: A Ball’s Revolt Pong: The Great Adventure The Epic Tale of the Pong Warrior and Little Jimmy Enter the PONG Pong: The Legacy Pong: The Everlasting Legacy Pong: Where [...]

Chinese houses, and Trottermaniac Simon’s poster

There’s a really cool 17th century Chinese house at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, and a really cool website about it, which wasted most of my morning. Also self-described “Trottermaniac” Simon S. just sent me this spoof poster he made, using elements of the various covers of BT. I thought it was very funny, [...]