Honky-Tonk Dragon

I've started a new blog for my new comic project. Not a lot to it at this point but I should be keeping on top of it. One of the great things about doing a comic digitally is when I get stuck or blocked, I can google a topic for character or plot development, or a new technique or something, so a lot of this stuff should get posted. And of course more general comics stuff (mostly independent and adult stuff I have a hard time keeping up with the "spandex perverts" now that i'm well into my 30's). I'm also planning to post some small reviews as it seems fit.

D&D laptop?!

File under must have to achieve world domination!
I realize this betrays my total geekiness, (which was really in doubt up til now) but I really must have this!
Not only does it have D&D logo and graphics on it, but it also has manufacturers logo "rock".
heh heh
I'll be in my bunk....

Boris Artzybasheff's As I See back in print

Boris Artzybasheff's As I See back in print
SWEEEEEEEEET!
(mumbles maniacally to self-"must get in stock...must get in stock)
via boingboing

See the Duck or You Suck!

Oh What Joy! Oh What Bliss!
Duckmandu is going to be in Olympia this week!
Wash away your fears and sorrows of the unfounded rumors of the demise of Punk! At the very least if Punk is Dead, then Duckmandu is the Lord of the Undead come to suck the blood and eat the brains of the hideous legions of Corperate Pop-poseurs that haunt my dreams!
Seriously, he played the Bookstore about a year ago, and undetered by a woefully light turn out, cranked out two amazing sets. Come on Olympia we can treat musical genius better than that!

Quack!
DUCKMANDU SPRING TOUR 2006:
Wednesday April 26 2:30 PM
OLYMPIA, WA
Rookie Radio on KAOS 89.3

Thurs April 27 ALL AGES 7:30
OLYMPIA, WA
Yes Yes (art gallery and performance space)
320 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, WA 98501
Cross-street: Franklin St., NE in downtown Olympiawww.yesyesalliance.com
(360) 705-0330
with Son and Robin Cutler

(notified via email)

Whittling Away at Ray Carver

Just finished all 159 pages of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver's biting portrait of 20th century American Love. If brevity was a commodity, Carver would have the trademark. He captures with picturesque horror the everyday nuances of sour relationships and alcoholic love, the twisted sheets of stories. Carver paints the underbelly of working-class America through a masterful use of the repetition of minor details and seemingly unimportant snippets of hauntingly realistic dialogue which make the characters leap off the page and into our hearts. He seems to me a polaroid camera made of words.

If you haven't read any Carver I highly recommend Fires and A New Path to the Waterfall. There's also an excellent adaptation of some of the stories from this book that was made into a movie starring, among others, Tom Waits! Check it out, it's called Short Cuts

I've been a fan of Carver's poetry for years now and am just getting deeper into his fiction these past few months. A few years ago I had the privilige of cataloguing my father's Carver collection, one of the most extensive in existence. Quite an amazing feeling handling those old signed broadsides and first editions, like there's a bigger piece of him there than in this Vintage paperback.

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You tell me, I just found it when I googled "Deus Express"... I think I will start peppering my writing with, F,s - it lends a certain unpredicatble feel to the text.

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Wired News: Teeny Reactor Pumps Out Biodiesel

A tiny chemical reactor that can convert vegetable oil directly into biodiesel could help farmers turn some of their crops into homegrown fuel to operate agricultural equipment instead of relying on costly imported oil.

(marked for later reference)

The Early Days of a Better Nation
Ken MacLeod is my favorite SF writer currently, and his blog is a refreshing change from typically incestous daisy chain of links one finds in the Blogosphere. This is just a segment of one of his latest rants on his blog
Once again you might expect that - given that my father was one of these Presbyterian ministers - I grew up with strong religious feelings and convictions and once again I have to say, not a bit of it. I heard every word of the Bible and I believed every word of it but it had no spiritual effect whatsoever. I learned all the theology from the Westminster Confession and the Shorter Catechism and I believed it to be true but I couldn't see any reason why anyone would want it to be true. In my late teens I remember reading lots of bad apologetics put out by the Inter-Varsity Press and other evangelical publishers and they would argue that the only alternative to Christianity was some sort of brutal free-for-all - you know, the three bad N's, Nietzsche, Nihilism and Nazism - and it suddenly struck me that the Greeks and Romans and Chinese had managed perfectly well in that respect of values and morals and so on without Christianity. And the fever left me. Now I should say in courtesy to those of you who are Christians that I now well recognise the intellectual and emotional appeal of the Christian religion but I have to say the version of it that I was taught may be a little different from the one you believe in. I should also say that this rather uncompromising version of the religion produces some truly admirable people and I am not one of them.

Do yourself a favor and check his Blog and his novels. I recommend The Stone Canals as a good introduction. Oh and by the by I just saw that his novel Learning the World was nominated for a 2006 Hugo Award. Cheers to you Ken!