February 2012
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X-Ray Petersen: Teen Tragedy Ballad →
boredandimmortal:
Here’s the first multi-page story comic I’ve ever tried doing! First attempt at a romance comic, too. It was a big learning experience, and when it wasn’t completely frustrating it was a lot of fun to do. So put on a Roy Orbison or a Shangri-Las song and enjoy a quick read about some sad kids.
Tony made this lovely comic I think you all will enjoy.
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“Going through the Oscar ballot, went through four categories and voted for...”
– Things aren’t looking good for sibling.
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Review: Winter Soldier #2 →
deathrayozone:
Maybe Marvel missed a chance to have Bucky rolling around the Marvel Universe in casual sex mode, but the direction that we’ve got works in both a character sense and in a “we’re owned by Disney lest we forget” sense. Bucky’s a one woman guy, and that’s not gonna change any time soon, it seems, so Brubaker deals with it in a way I didn’t really expect. Bucky is a monogamous...
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Movies I Have Not Seen Which Are Nonetheless My...
Hunk
Pizza
The Cowboy And The Lady
I’m Through With White Girls
Lunopolis
Duck, You Sucker
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“Theme From The Valley of the Dolls”,...
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January 2012
14 posts
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Aubrey and Tessa Do the Internet
aubreybell:
or, “Walking With Diane Keaton: A Conversation With Tessa Strain”
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Yesterday Aubrey and I had a talk about things to do on the internet when you’ve done everything on the internet and why Diane Keaton has great potential as a spiritual force.
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Netflix Categories I Would Appreciate
Movies Made In The 1970s That Make You Feel Like An Adult for Watching Them
Movies That Are Almost Certainly Satire, But It’s Like Nobody Told the Actors?
Movies With Misleadingly Great Titles
Movies From The 1940s That You Expect To Be Really Boring But Are Actually Super Good, And You Should Really Give Them A Shot
Campy Horror Movies That Lend Themselves To Feminist Readings
Movies...
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The art of getting really dumped
theidiotking:
alisonagosti:
So, a good while back, I got really, really dumped. In part because I didn’t see it coming, but mostly because he did it by stopping by my apartment with an iced coffee and saying “I think I need to wrap this up.” The tough thing about writing about this is that I’m going to make the guy look bad. Cold and insensitive and manipulative, and that isn’t fair. We’re...
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#ITSAPROCESS
Well, I guess I’m back. I didn’t mean to DEPART FROM THE BLOGOSHPHERE or even use the word “blogosphere”; it was just one of those things. A writing about anything not related to comics slump became a writing about anything slump became even, I’m embarrassed to say, a tweeting slump. It happens, and I have the overstuffed drafts folder to prove it.
Until recently I...
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December 2011
8 posts
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“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via azelie)
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Things I'm pretty much always ready to talk about
ghosts
why salt bagels are the best bagel
Westerns
how frustrating it is that expensive mascara really is better
how cool it is that Philip Marlowe and I have the same china pattern
gold
Batman
my desire for a true and worthy nemesis
Elaine Stritch
what I should have for breakfast
my dream to record an album of jazz standards with Iggy Pop
how nice David Lynch seems
hot dogs
Gossip...
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Festive Christmas Suggestions
Nothing says cozy like cashmere! Fashion a hammock out of your luxurious scarves and sweaters and enjoy curling up in it and sinking slowly toward the floor!
Microwave glasses of whiskey and stir them with a peppermint stick. Make yourself (and your closest friends!) drink all of it.
Create a wreath out of used tissues from your winter cold. Spray paint it gold.
Put on satin evening gloves and...
November 2011
11 posts
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Review: Secret Invasion: Black Panther →
deathrayozone:
As such, we don’t really get any insightful peeks into the psyches of these characters that will emotionally invest us in their continued survival (or in the Black Panther’s case, we were rooting for him anyway), so all we’re left with is some moments of the Black Panther and his Wakandan soldiers acting like hard dudes, a couple of twists (one of which is kind of horrifying when...
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Famous Plays, CONCEPTUALLY REBOOTED!
geoffreyisworking:
Here are some plays that are good, but they’ve been around for a while, so I’ve taken it upon myself to reboot them to keep them fresh, and maybe they’ll catch on.
Waiting for Godot
Dana and Tim are two best friends who probably used to date. They are fresh out of college twenty something selfish jerks who land jobs waiting tables at West Virginia’s most exclusive new...
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Parlor Games For Comics Enthusiasts →
deathrayozone:
“Congratulations! You’re having a dinner party! What? What do you mean you’re not having a dinner party? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard! I already RSVPed and bought a dress and told you (I told you) I’d be bringing the wine!
So it’s settled! You’re having a dinner party! What a mad tasteful way to spend an evening!
But what’s that you say? You don’t know what to do...
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Things in the purse I had stolen today that I'm...
bag of Honey Nut Cheerios
Tiny Mickey Rourke
notes for my screenplay
eyeliner (brown AND black)
ten dollar sunglasses
a number of coins, none of them quarters
birthday card from my parents
kazoo
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Co-Review: Wolverine & the X-Men #1, Uncanny X-Men... →
deathrayozone:
“Geoffrey: I liked that about the conflict of ideologies that Schism presented. A sort of civil-war-style thing that didn’t have that sweaty Mark Millar all over it. Tessa: Yes, and I think it gets to the heart of something that has always been a part of the X-Men, which is the division of people with a common goal and different ideas of how that is to be achieved. You saw it...
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Tessa Paraphrases Swamp Thing, Vol. 2 →
deathrayozone:
“Back on the motorcycle in the woods, Abby informs Alec that just as he is connected to “the green,” some are connected to “the black” (the rot), and that this kid is one of them. It is worth noting at this point, that if you picked up Animal Man this week, you are also aware that “the red” (fauna) are marshaling their forces against the rot. Looks like we’re all going to learn...
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October 2011
13 posts
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Here is a Halloween anecdote
I’m not too good at Halloween. In theory it should be my favorite holiday because I love outfits and spooky things and hell, even candy corn. But the fun Halloweens with great costumes and fun parties kind of have eluded me since I hit puberty, so I’ve more or less given up on the holiday.
A couple years back I made an exception, because the stars had aligned such that I had a party...
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Standing on the Shoulders of Greatness
If you like Gossip Girl, then you’ll love my new show Gossipy Girl! Sample dialogue: “And what am I? That’s something I don’t plan to divulge. Doubtless you like me. OXOX, Gossipy Girl.”
If you like Cheers, then you’ll love my new show I Propose a Toast at This Bar! Sample dialogue: “Everyone here recognizes you.”
If you like Mad Men, you’ll...