Senseless acts of link salad
Posted on | 1 year, 11 months ago, in the late afternoon | 1 Comment
* Amendment to yesterday’s self-pimp post. As my kindly publisher has reminded me, there is a special limited edition of Those Who Went Remain There Still which is available ONLY from Subterranean Press. This signed, exclusive version of the tale comes with a chapbook about the making of the book, and the family history that inspired it.
* And now I’ll pimp somebody else. If you’re even remotely interested in comics, go to Warren Ellis’s page to get a sneak peek at the upcoming offering from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips — Incognito. It sounds completely awesome, and it’ll be available this December from Marvel’s ICON line.
* Also hot, fresh, new, etc., Justine L.’s new book. How to Ditch Your Fairy has just hit the shelves, and if you’re a fan of snappy, funny, irreverent and poignant young adult fiction, then I do believe this book has got your number.
* Because everyone else is linking it – McCain as the Dark Knight. “Back in the mid-1980s, young comics genius Frank Miller used a unique sort of mental alchemy to tell a story that would become legend. The story of an aging warrior, dragging himself from a restful retirement to fight once more: possibly senile, definitely psychotic, obsessed with reclaiming past glories with no thought to the consequences…”
* Separation of Church and State – you NO can has it. At least, Palin would prefer that you didn’t. As someone who was raised, in effect, within an eschatological cult … this kind of thing scares the crap out of me — though not for the reasons my old church probably thinks it ought to. It blows my mind that members of an oddball denomination that has a persecution complex would cheerfully vote for this woman’s ticket. (Yes, SDA family members. I’m lookin’ at YOU.)
* McCain on science (via Jay Lake) “…when you look at some of the planetariums and other foolishness that [Obama] asked for, he shouldn’t be saying anything about Governor Palin.†Yep, I can see that. Science education is far more foolish than a Bridge to Nowhere which you can lie about later. GOP values in a nutshell, right there. (Hat tip to Bad Astronomy Blog.)
[To answer some recent emails, no, I do not intend to simply "Let it go."
If you're tired of the political links, feel free to self-jettison from the page.]
* Oh Agatha, we barely knew yet. But that might sort of change. “Uttered in the reedy voice of Christie herself, these withering descriptions are contained on a cache of audiotapes, recently discovered in a dusty cardboard box in one of her former houses by her only grandson, Mathew Prichard. The tapes — 27 reels running a total of more than 13 hours — are filled with Christie’s painstaking dictation of her life story, rough material recorded in the early 1960s that eventually made up her autobiography, published posthumously in 1977. It stands as one of only a handful of recordings of Christie, the British mystery writer, who rarely agreed to be interviewed.”
* Maureen Johnson gets cooler every time I check her page. “Education arms you. It gives you the information you need to make some choices in your life, rather than just getting smacked around by fate. This is why I think “abstinence only†education is a joke surrounded by a thick coating of fraud. Abstinence only denies your biology reality. Abstinence only deprives you of important information that could profoundly alter your life. Comprehensive sex education is sort of the ‘owner’s manual’ that you need. It’s necessary because many parents don’t know how to or refuse to teach about the reproductive system. It is NOT a class on ‘how to get some.’”
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September 17th, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
There are Adventists who want to vote for Palin?!!???
Time-of-trouble, third angel’s message, fight for separation of church and state or else Mark of the Beast Oh Noes people are FOR Palin?
Jeeze Lordy I’m out of touch… and depressed…
(And Johnson’s post was SPECTACULAR. Goodness.)