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nothing is sacred

At The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: Chrysler honors the memory of Bill Mauldin by kicking him in the teeth. (Link from the ubiquitous GHR.)

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waiting for the techno-rapture

An embarrassing cartoon of n guys with beards, glasses and hats not entirely unlike mine, babbling about the Singularity and stuff, in 1993. Heh. It’s a scene from The Guy I Almost Was, a story by one Patrick Farley, who … Continue reading

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the Red Book of Okefenokee

Found in the archives: my cast list for Walt Kelly’s production of LotR: Porky Pine as Frodo Albert as Aragorn Deacon Mushrat as Gandalf Bewitched, Bothered and Bemildred as Sam, Merry and Pippin Hepzibah as Arwen Miz Beaver as Eowyn … Continue reading

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a narrow view

US judge rules that The X-Men (and a number of other Marvel characters) are not human. Worse, she did so at Marvel’s request. (Link from Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, from John Hughes.)

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high concept

One can dream.

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Vlad the . . .

Silly puns like this are only a small part of what you’re missing if you don’t read Soap on a Rope. Say not that I warned thee not.

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a talented family

Too cool! Today’s Bizarro cartoon credits my stepbrother Seth Chabay for the gag.

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