and now for some thrillin’ heroics

Posted on Friday, 2004 March 19 by Anton

PvP’s Brent and Jade discover Firefly (sequence of four strips).

Speaking of webtoons, here’s libertarian (or is it paleocon?) propaganda from Dogpatch: Nip and Tuck

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green thumb

Posted on Thursday, 2004 March 18 by Anton

About two years ago I dumped some tangerine seeds in the flowerpots on my porch. Two sprouted; the saplings are over two feet tall – and now one of them is in bloom!

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shoulda been there, B

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 March 17 by Anton

Some months ago I started reading Pillars of Faith, a webtoon, without being aware that it’s a fan spinoff of – you guessed it – Buffy! It brings up some interesting questions that Buffy did not address.

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there must be a standard metaphor

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 March 17 by Anton

We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along? That’ll be £80,000 please (cited by Joshua Burton)

One might be reminded of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, in reverse: there, the man interrogated by mistake got a refund of the service charge.

Having got the initial howl of outrage off our chest, it may occur to us that the charge is against compensation received by some such victims; but wouldn’t it have been figured into the settlements?

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someone must be reading

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 March 16 by Anton

Jerry Ritcey is concerned for my sanity. How sweet! I’ll eat him last. — At least one reader did not notice that Jerry links to three different entries.

Meanwhile I’ve been blogrolled by a stranger with an intriguing title and an irritating format.

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dude, where’s my fame?

Posted on Sunday, 2004 March 14 by Anton

sigh – My biggest source (by far) of outside “referrals” in February was a forum where someone uses one of my ray-tracings as a personal icon. Without credit, naturally. (Madhu does so in Livejournal, but he asked permission, and made his own copy.)

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still at it

Posted on Friday, 2004 March 12 by Anton

Dreamt about kittens and vampires.

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