Date: 2009-06-03 04:45 Subject: [links] Link salad yawns and faces the world Security: Public Tags: art, books, comics, cool, funny, links, personal, science, weird

JayCon is this coming Saturday! Mark your calendars: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]

Art writing guru James Gurney on book covers

My Milk Toof — A die-of-cute Web comic.

The Graveyard of the Atlantic — Strange Maps with some strange history.

What to do in a zombie attack — Classic civil defense film. (Thanks to Scott Cupp.)

How to See Diffraction Patterns with Star Crusts — How can you not like a blog post with that title?

?otD: How do you do?

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6/3/2009
Body movement: n/a (overslept)
This morning's weigh-in: n/a (overslept)
Currently reading: The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold; A Long Line of Cells by Lewis Thomas

Originally published at jlake.com.

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Date: 2007-12-23 08:16 Subject: [links] Link salad on the day of rest Security: Public Location: Nuevo Rancho Lake Mood: awake Music: the Child chatting Tags: art, comics, funny, links, mainspring, politics, religion, science, trial, videos

Surrealist fantasy from Russian artist Jacek Yerka — Note automotive themed images here and here. goulo, who tipped me to this artist, also really liked this one.

Cat alarm clock — A video which will be familiar to cat owners. (Thanks to FB.)

There Are More Giraffe Species Than You Think — Cool biology neepery. Weirdly, I can actually follow the gist of this article, along with most of the details. I should send this woman a copy of Trial of Flowers [ Powell's | Amazon ].

A reader offers a thoughtful review of Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon | Audible ]

Get Fuzzy ding dongs the Bard of Avon

Myth is truth — An interesting piece about "just because you believe it doesn't mean its true" as applied to science journalism.

The British War on Christmas — "More Christians have been martyred for their faith in the last century than in any other period of church history." Really? There was a Christian holocaust? What is it about so many religious and political conservatives that seems to require a sense of persecution for them to be validated?

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Date: 2007-04-10 05:13 Subject: Tuesday Security: Public Tags: comics, omaha, personal

Up, and out to the office today. Limited supplies of wit and erudition between now and Friday. Meanwhile, check out today's Dilbert. I've been in that conversation.

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Date: 2007-03-28 09:41 Subject: Biblical Evolution Security: Public Tags: comics, funny, religion, science

Non Sequitur on Biblical Evolution

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Date: 2007-03-20 09:07 Subject: Clockpunk is dead, it's Waistcoat Fiction Security: Public Mood: giggling Tags: comics, funny, mainspring, reviews

My Elves Are Different discusses Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon ].

:: laughing ::

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Date: 2007-03-10 08:32 Subject: Shakespeare, Jonson, it's all the same Security: Public Tags: comics, conventions, funny

Today's Get Fuzzy is for matociquala and truepenny.

Potlatch soon.

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Date: 2007-03-06 04:38 Subject: "Ahhh. There's the rub." Security: Public Tags: comics, funny, language

Get Fuzzy gets weird, even by that strip's standards. Shakespug, indeed.

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Date: 2007-03-04 10:51 Subject: Novelists r Us Security: Public Tags: books, comics, funny, writing

Sally Forth on writing the Great American Novel (in this case, described as Gothic Sci-Fi).

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Date: 2007-02-22 06:47 Subject: Arrr, that's a mighty fine pirate anthology you've got there, laddie Security: Public Tags: books, comics, funny, publishing

Calvin and Hobbes on the current rage for pirate stories.

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Date: 2007-02-20 06:42 Subject: "Care to cut up a calory with Canyon?" Security: Public Tags: comics, funny, writing

Steve Canyon talks about himself in the third person today. If you're not following this rerun of the original Steve Canyon strip, you really ought to. The story telling rhythms and the art are both pretty amazing.

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Date: 2007-02-05 04:09 Subject: Minions at Work Security: Public Tags: comics, funny, links

If you don't follow Minions at Work, well, you should. At least if you enjoy the concept of a minion in the first place...

(LJ feed at minions_at_work.)

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Date: 2007-02-01 05:59 Subject: Steve Canyon Security: Public Tags: comics, cool

The site Humorous Maximus has recently begun rerunning Milt Caniff's original Steve Canyon strips. They're about a week into the series from the very beginning in 1947. If you have any interest in comics at all, adventure pulps, or that kind of story telling, it's worth following. The art's pretty cool, too.

http://humorousmaximus.com/cartoons/steve_canyon.php

Recommended reading.

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Date: 2007-01-31 06:03 Subject: In which we discover that Mike Patterson does not have an agent Security: Public Tags: comics, funny, publishing, writing

Hmmm.

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Date: 2006-12-22 04:26 Subject: "Punctuation marks get you hot" Security: Public Tags: comics, funny, language

This morning's 9 Chickweed Lane is for writers. Or at least for copy editors...

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Date: 2006-10-21 08:10 Subject: New concepts in book marketing Security: Public Tags: books, comics, funny

Courtesy of Bo Nanas, another comic strip I recently added to my morning Web roundup.

Heh heh heh.

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Date: 2006-10-20 10:04 Subject: Filling the well Security: Public Tags: comics, music, process, writing

A couple of tangential well-filling items.

I've been enjoying the Beastie Boys as part of the Kleptones' excellent Queen mashup-remix A Night at the Hip-Hopera, so I've decided to listen to them in the original Klingon, as it were. Just bought Solid Gold Hits. I really admire the wordplay in hip-hop, even when the music doesn't do a lot for me and the content is sometimes alarming.

Also, been enjoying the comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane, by Brooke McEldowney. I first started looking at it thanks to some comments by the Comics Curmudgeon. At first glance, this strip looks like another four panel soap opera, which ain't my bag, but I've come to appreciate the subtle cockeyed surrealism that infuses it.

Just sayin'

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