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Get Your War On: The Watch List

// August 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues

“This is it. The highly anticipated premiere of Get Your War On, the new animated series from 23/6, based on the popular comic by David Rees.”

Man, I thought this emo shit was for people who didn’t have hats

// July 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

XKCD understands. Blogging to return when things get way more/ way less normal, as they must. Until then, there is only this glimpse of a softer world…

Gargling Pandas

// March 26th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Make your own tonsillitis themed, obscure japanese comic at bitstrips.com.

Equally Meaningless Differences in the World

// October 3rd, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

The late Adam Finley interviewed Achewood’s creator, Chris Onstead, at The Black Table.

“AF: Should an artist avoid giving his/her audience what it wants? A recent strip featuring a fully cooked and fully anatomically correct rooster seemed to arrive from a different place than most of your other ideas.

CO: The rooster penis was an element that relieved the incredible tension between Roast Beef and his dinner date. That they could both laugh about it brought them down to earth with each other. I thought it felt perfect given the situation — a tension breaker appropriate to the fundamental problem of the first date, which is that the basic purpose of dating is to mate and create offspring via the genitals.

This isn’t a toilet humor strip, but I’m not beholden to any sort of oppressive distribution syndicate, and I can draw a chicken penis if I think that’s funny. Some days I think chicken penises are not funny at all. Some days I hate them. Some days I think stuff like that just belongs in the trash. But whatever, I write a comic strip. Who cares. Greater men than me have gone to their graves having made equally meaningless differences in the world. I just fuck around on the Internet and later some dude buys a shirt so that I can live my life and pay Driveway Tax or whatever. I sleep at night, and one day I won’t wake up. On that day, people in BMWs will drive past my house and honk at my neighbor as he tries to back out of his driveway. Fog will roll in. A grown man will get fired from McDonald’s. Someone will ride the train home, and it will clang as it passes my street. I will be dead, and they’ll put me out with the Monday morning trash, my feet sticking comically up out of the can.”

Full interview.

Justified Web Culture

// August 29th, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

My seemingly lowbrow interest in the Achewood ubercomic- here, here and here- has been endorsed in the Economist’s seemingly highbrow lifestyle magazine Intelligent Life.

Two flavours of Achewood. First the direct.

And then in layers of meta-weird.

String Theory- XKCD

// March 29th, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Dude all mocking up the lack of experimental predictions made by string theory, and supposing it relates more to some first philosophy than to physics. No you didn’t!

Physics resources
Berkeley’s video lectures of Physics for Future Presidents.
Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Entanglement, course of video lectures by Leonard Susskin- one of the fathers of String Theory. Search for “Quantum Physics” on Stanford Itunes

The Elegant Universe documentary on PBS.
Anything except “What the Bleep do we Know?” Pseudoscience is the superstition of the modern age.

Hallucinations- XKCD

// January 3rd, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Ninja Turtles- XKCD

// December 15th, 2006 // 2 Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Also, Ryan at Dinosaur Comics publishes his 900th strip today, featuring T-Rex arguing with God that the sitcom Will and Grace is “congealed human suffering”. I revel in the confusion this causes the world at large.

Have Weekends People! Without them time might seem indefinite, one seamless moment extending into the eternal, history a fragile memory and the future an impossible illusion. Furthermore, The Black Eyed Peas strongly endorse weekends.