Guy stuff.
Apparently some things have changed since the beginning of last summer…
JUNG TYPOLOGY TEST
(Courtesy of Raina)
Your Type is
INFP
Introverted (%11)
Intuitive (33%)
Feeling (11%)
Perceiving (67%)
Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
* slightly expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* slightly expressed feeling personality
* distinctively expressed perceiving personality
1. What to do? Against my better instincts, this blog is quickly becoming one of those personal, "yesterday I went to the Mall" kind of blogs that I find terribly boring. It's not that I don't have as much to say as I used to - god forbid that day ever comes! - but for someone reason I'm just not as compelled to log on and spend 30 minutes or so writing it out. 2. So, yesterday I stayed home from work as Isaac was battling a cold and I was fighting the beginnings of one off. Kept India home…
Comic book writers are a special lot, even among creative types, fitting somewhere between performance artists and mimes in mainstream perception. Whereas Mark Salisbury’s excellent first edition, published in 1999, featured many of the Modern Age’s future Hall of Famers – including Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller and Grant Morrison – Tom Root and Andrew Kardon tap the current crop of writers dominating the industry, including Brian Michael Bendis, Andy Diggle, Brian K. Vaughan and Bill Willingham. Unfortuntely, like its predecessor, it sees fit to only include one female and not a single writer of color in the bunch.
Interspersed with script samples and highlights of specific titles they’re best known for, the real meat of the book is the interviews themselves where the writers discuss craft, inspiration and the business of comics, while offering – not always purposefully, I think – glimpses into their personalities and motivations. At times these glimpses can be turnoffs, and other times they can uncover a previously unknown and interesting layer.
Mark Millar: I’m very interested in a career in politics, maybe, at some stage when I’m older and fully grown-up. [Millar is 35.] Most people who’ve been reading this book probably have a real job in the real world but read comics in their spare time. Because these fictional realities are where I spend ten hours a day, reality has essentially become my hobby… You might be daydreaming about being Superman or Batman, but I’m sitting here daydreaming about pushing a Private Members’s Bill for a fairer welfare system through Parliament.
1. I was heading to the airport the Sunday before last for my trip to Miami when I realized I hadn't flown since August of 2001, to Seattle for my last National Poetry Slam. Nine days and six flights later, I've had my fill of airports to last me another 3.5 years! Almost every one of my flights experienced significant delays, including Friday night out of LaGuardia that made me miss my connecting flight in O'Hare and end up staying in Chicago overnight with a complimentary hotel room and a $300 voucher for a future flight. The voucher made up…
1. So, this time around a Democratic Senator decided to show a little backbone as California's Barbara Boxer stepped up and joined the House's challenge of the certification of the electoral college results, specifically in regards to the issues in Ohio. Unlike in 2000 where not a single one stepped forward to support members of the Congressional Black Caucus fighting to have the voting irregularities in their mostly minority districts investigated. Not John Kerry, not John Edwards, not Bob Graham, not Joseph Lieberman, each presumably looking forward to their own challenges for the nomination. Mind you, the idea was not…
The infection is gone! :-) Healing may now commence, not to mention a proper shower! Having gotten used to the lump of gauze (approx. two feet worth on Sunday's ER visit!) packed into my armpit for the past week, it feels weird now that it's gone. Surgical follow-up in two weeks to figure out what's what and, hopefully, why. In other news, Will Eisner, one of the founding fathers of comic books, passed away yesterday at the age of 87 following quadruple bypass heart surgery. R.I.P.
from WillEisner.com: Will Eisner passed away on January 3rd, 2005 at the age of 87 following quadruple bypass heart surgery. Our condolences to Will's wife, Ann, and his family, friends and colleagues. A true giant in comics, he will be missed, personally and professionally. More information will be posted [at WillEisner.com] as it becomes available. from Newsarama.com: There will be no funeral service, per Will's wishes. "Will and I hated funerals," his wife, Ann, said the morning after his death. "We made plans long ago to avoid having them ourselves." He will be buried next to his late daughter, Alice,…