Archive for October, 2005

Live Liberal (Live Liberal)

To support and encourage the large community of people who LIVE the LIBERAL lifestyle. To promote increased understanding of LIBERALS as people who live its root (liber) meaning – “free.” LIBERALS understand that LIBERTY is not license, but responsible freedom to serve a common good especially among those who have not yet fully enjoyed or […]

category: Politics    

Sprint Waltzes into Music Lead (Red Herring)

Subscribers will be charged $2.50 per song, but they will get two copies of the song: one version formatted to play on the phone, while the other will be formatted to play on a PC. The PC version can be burned onto a CD using Windows Media Player. [Although I own an iPod, I still […]

category: Technology    

Nicholas Cage wanted to be Bond (newindpress)

Cage was devastated that he would never get another chance to try for the role and resents the unwritten rule that only a British actor can play Bond. He said: “You can cast a Brit to play Bond but you can never cast an American to play him. I think that is totally unfair.” [What […]

category: Popular Culture    

Dorothy and Toto Visit a Much Different Darker World of Oz (PR Newswire)

From the mind and pen of wunderkin comic artist/writer from Toronto, Shane Kirshenblatt has brought to all Oz fans a truly fantastic (64 page) romp through a completely different and dark Oz. The intricate artwork is completely original and thought provoking and will provide a feast of eye-candy for the most discerning of comic book/ […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

Cry Wolf Graphic Novel Will Teach University Students (Open Press)

The story has now been approved as a teaching text by the University of New Mexico, to be used in their English 220 class. The class will revolve around the role of the werewolf in historical and modern literature, as well as the symbolism associated with the werewolf from different times and cultures. The symbolism […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

Turn your gaming ownage into slick comic books (IGN)

“Comic Book Creator lets gamers add in text bubbles to their digital screenshots, as well as classic comic book features like powerful action-word graphics that emphasize their gameplay” -Kevin Donovan, Planetwide Games President. [And Scott McCloud got labeled “dangerous” for his book, _Reinventing Comics_, in which he theorizes that online web comics represent the future […]

category: Gaming    

Jobs’ Apple Celebrates 1M Video Downloads (Forbes)

And we don’t need Marxists to tell us nobody needs a video iPod–but there sure as heck is a market for them: Apple said Monday that iTunes users have downloaded more than a million videos since they were made available on Oct. 12. [True, nobody probably needs a video iPod, especially me since I recently […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology    

Art Spiegelman to Speak at UW-Milwaukee (Comix Scholars’ Discussion List)

Comix 101 will be the topic of the lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus, who has almost single-handedly turned comic books into works of literature. […] In his lecture, he will discuss the evolution of comics, explaining the value of this medium and how, in our post-literate culture, “comics echo […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

Goodbye Bravenet (Discourse Chronicle)

All of my pages from Bravenet, including tutorials (Basic Chess and Comma Usage), are now available at my static website. I will be experimenting with modifying how this blog appears in Movable Type (MT) as I find time. I will also work on posting a representative sample of content I plan on blogging about regularly […]

category: Technology    

Entering the Blogosphere (Discourse Chronicle)

[Becoming a blogger is something I postponed for a long time, possibly too long, but here I am. For those who visit my website on Bravenet, I plan on importing all of those pages over here soon, so please be patient. Movable Type is a new program for me and once I learn how to […]

category: Life