Yeah, I’m bummed. But in the spirit of the season, I consumed plenty and feel great about it. Remember when you were a kid, and when school got back in session you had to write about what you did over the summer? Well, In no particular order:
Finally finished Ulysses.
Understood 75% of it thanks to Blamires’ [...]
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Just picked up Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics, his informally didactic how-to book about criticizing comic books. It’s like being chastised by your older brother, but in a good way: “No, dude, Eric Carr was actually Kiss’ third drummer.” You blush with shame publicly, but are secretly grateful for the knowledge. I’m about halfway through, and [...]
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I’ve been on a horrible comic book bender lately. It’s displaced music as the obsession that becalms and brings order to my agitated male reptilian brain. I wait for the Wednesday release of the new Silver Surfer comic in the same way I used to wait for the Tuesday release of the new Queens of [...]
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Popular Mechanics Editorial
City Pages
Lambert at the Rake
Platt at MSP
Minnesota Monitor
Flip survives the collapse from espn.com
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Just got back from joining the downtown lunchtime bridge gawkers. Nobody can get closer than two blocks out. Pretty tight perimeter of cops and yellow tape. There is tape blocking off the Stone Arch Bridge so emergency personnel can cross back and forth, so hundreds of onlookers were congregating on the 3rd Ave. Bridge sidewalk, [...]
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