Look. I’m only going to say this one more time. Magnolia Porter is the most exciting comics creator on the Internet and YOU HAVE TO READ BOBWHITE.
Category: Plugs
Andrus
Kara’s Dad, Robert, along with her brother-in-law Ty, made a biographical documentary last year about the late illusionist Jerry Andrus. It’s a really, really good movie, unimpeded by the title Andrus: The Man, the Mind & the Magic. In particular, I found the breakdown of some of his optical illusions fascinating, and the close-up magic he demonstrates is unbelievable; one of the most interesting things about Andrus was that he used both to provoke skepticism and critical thinking from his audience, rather than to cultivate an aura of mystique.
If you’re in Oregon, you can watch an hour-long cut of the movie at 10 pm tonight on OPB’s Oregon Lens. I recommend that you do!
Yes, I realize Proserpina’s name blocks several other links. What do you expect from her?
I just completed a personal obsession that’s been occupying a few minutes of my time every day for the last several months: every Anacrusis story is now tagged with the names of each character who appears in it, which means you can see a much more accurate cloud of every name I’ve ever used.
The ratio of effort to payoff on this project was not high, but at least I’ve shut up one of my own tiny nagging voices, and brought the site up to this-was-cool-in-2006 standards. It had the side effect of cleaning up all my old crappy markup code from 2003 to 2007, which should help things go smoothly when Dreamhost inevitably decides WordPress is too resource-expensive and makes me downgrade to flat text files.
Why aren’t you reading Bobwhite?
Magnolia Porter is better at character-based humor than I will ever be and she is, like, twenty. READ BOBWHITE GODDAMMIT.
Very tempted to do an Anacrusis for each of Dresden Codak’s twists.
Via Uncle John
A gentleman named Philip Nagle, from my father’s hometown of Tipp City, is trying to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by bicycling through 48 states in 48 days. Okay, Internet, you got my attention.
Today’s story is a perfect reason why you should be reading Minor Delays.
Three things make a roundup
- Holly presents Towards a Critical Framework for High School Musical, which comes perilously close to accomplishing the formidable task of making HSM interesting to me. (As the author notes in the comments, though, it may already be too late.)
- Leonard is creating an free, online-only speculative fiction anthology called Thoughtcrime Experiments and he’s paying big bucks for stories! I can’t submit because I’m a first-degree acquaintance, but other people can, cough ahem guys.
- Oh, right, and MY SISTER’S GETTING MARRIED
I cannot avoid using the word “viral” here and I’m sorry.
Somyr Perry, whom we know from the following clause has fantastic taste in writing, discovered Ommatidia and made a meme out of it on her blogging community, Open Salon, which as far as I can tell is Livejournal for real journalists. Most of the posts are getting tagged or collected (except the ones that aren’t), and some of them are really excellent, that last in particular. You are awesome, Open Saloners! Now buy my book.