Underwater stuff is great to draw (nice synergy with my SpongeBob comment above and actual work)—I loved going to the Field Museum or the museum in Leiden and drawing corals or fossil invertebrates—spatially it’s just a completely different environment for organisms to grow in, and drawing it is a really fun way to…

Just don’t get him started on Farscape!

It is a good thing! I open my phone and it’s a gladiatorial match between a guy and a kraken! The design stuff in the screenshot is all feedly—if you think it warped anything (looks cool to me) it’s feedly’s fault, not yours.

Also in hooray for this shit—I made the mistake of getting cheap tires and I thought I’d get used to them buy I just…couldn’t: loud, bumpy, and conveying no steering feel. So I went back to the tire place, upgraded to some nice Michelin Premiers, and I only had to pay the difference between the old and new tires.

I miss the old “how does sex work?” Dan Savage days.

Just the tip?

I have been watching a lot of old SpongeBob episodes, because they are delightful and hilarious.

Six kids, multiple parents, checks out

@avclub-df106893a4574bccb7bce1ff66e788b9:disqus , I added your blog to my rss feeder so when I opened up feedly on my phone a couple of days ago this is what greeted me.

When I was a kid we power walked uphill to school!

I’ve been rowing, but I sliced up my hand (on a sardine can, of all things) so that’s not going to happen for a while.

Ha, scanlations! I was actually thinking about the Lupin comics when writing this—one of the reason I’d love some kind of digital edition is because, based on what I’ve heard, chapters alternate between awesome and, well, wanting to wash your hands after touching the pages. Unfortunately the classic ones are both…

You read that before you go to China! Did you see his house in the Fragrant Hills? Actually with both this and Moby Dick my copy’s an ultra-compact little paperback (or series of five Penguin Paperbacks in the case of Story of a Stone) that makes it not so bad for traveling.

I have a similar collection, only has some hot pink and purple ones thrown in for variety.

The whole thing’s really, really worth it—it’s one of the great human creative works.

Go for Jefferson—all that great Biblical drama, none of those pesky Biblical miracles (comes with bonus Qu’ran)!

What if we grew up with an Olivetti computer, followed up by a Mac LCII?

Or people who drop by and look at stuff on your shelves! For comics especially this would seem like a good thing (and there again the whole series/omnibus thing plays a role).

Oh yeah, especially since I’m loath to mark up books—I read Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before on ebook and, while it’s definitely a good enough book that I’d want it in hard copy if I were to read it again, so much of that book ended up highlighted or with little notes on the side.

AFAIK they’re still selling DVD-only players, so until that stops DVD will still be a thing. I wonder if there’s a difference in production cost, too—I don’t buy much video (in hard copy or electronically), but a fair amount of it in the last year or so was fairly niche stuff (a doc about the Dutch artist Jan…