With the cynical lawsuit to stop casino workers from caucusing on the Strip tomorrow having been rightly dismissed, the LA Times has an interesting article entitled “Clinton plays gaming card against Obama“, pointing out her latest attempt to muddy the waters in what is looking more and more like a campaign against Barack Obama instead of the campaign for [...]
Well, are you?
Matt Ruff has written three of my favorite books, including one of my all-time favorites, Fool on the Hill. One of the coolest birthday presents I ever received was a signed copy of his Sewer, Gas and Electric [Whoops!] Fool — Salomé actually mailed my dog-earred copy to him and he signed it [...]
5. Bright Lights (More Than You Think You Are, Matchbox Twenty)
And maybe, maybe, maybe
You’ll find something thats enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don’t receive you
You should turn yourself around and come on home
4. Something To Be (Something To Be, Rob Thomas)
Play another one of those heartbreak songs
Tell another story how things go wrong
And they [...]
Other than the occasional review at Amazon – or even less frequently, at PopCultureShock – it’s been a while since I’ve written about comics. After 2.5 years of being ankle-deep in the industry, writing reviews, interviews, commentary and the occasional news piece, I really don’t miss it at all. While I’m still reading comics, my weekly trips to Midtown Comics [...]
(an off-the-cuff villanelle, kind of by request)
Because we live in a time of pure dread
our future at the mercy of madmen
I worship the awesome god in my head.
Bush kisses his nukes each night before bed
while Cheney cackles away in his den
because we live in a time of pure dread.
With Rudi’s campaign not yet in the red
and Huckabee-ing America’s [...]
