I can now blog from my phone, thanks to free Net access from my provider. With pictures, even.
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Around about the time we hit puberty, my friends and I decided we were going to film our own parody of our beloved Star Trek, presaging Paramount’s own moves to some extent by including (stand-ins for) both Kirk and Picard. We were not, of course, alone; hundreds if not thousands of Trek fans have joyfully turned their efforts towards similar pursuits. And, as it turns out, among these fans is my friend and colleague Satu Helio (I think that’s her on the left), who starred in a seven-years-in-the-making Finnish parody, full-length, Star Wreck. (I think that was our title too. It’s kind of the obvious choice.)
Wow… Lynda Barry’s selling off original art from One! Hundred! Demons! Including one of my favorite chapters, the one about headlice. And to think it’s almost my birthday… hmmmm.
In other news, I still want a pony.
I have time to blog! So I will note some things! One is that my roommate Emily will be maintaining a blog as she goes to work with Burundian refugees in Tanzania this summer! OK! Also my cousins in the Berkeley area will finally be reunited with each other as their tribute bands — tribute to The Who and The Yardbirds — play at the British Invasion #2 concert! Not that I could identify music by either band! But they are both seriously talented musicians! Right on! You should go see them! Also! Totally missed Jacob’s second, unfinished, Valentine possibility this year, but it involves Cthulhu and is way too dramatic and that makes it, like his previous Valentines, hilarious. Jacob will be at a number of comic cons in the next month so if you go to those look for him there and buy his mini-comics.
FYI for anyone who’s been trying to call me over the last few days, I’ve lost my cel phone. Anyone found it?
because his music is fscking rad. I’d known he was working on electronic music while at Hampshire, and I knew he’s on and off been a peripheral member of Negativland (“that’s the letter U and the numeral 2, and who the hell gives a shit?!”), but I don’t think I’ve heard his stuff before. It’s just the kind of electronica/8-bit I’ve been wanting to listen to lately. Really, really good. Highly recommended to fans of KCRW’s Nocturna or Metropolis.
and We are It (worksafe despite URL). Also, for those of you who haven’t been keeping up with the exceedingly sporadic strip lately, there are also animated comics!
He’s making origami quilts.
Yes, that Jon Land.
No, actually they don’t involve ugly stick figures. Or tasteless jokes. Or reviews of beef jerky. Or physical threats to hippies. Who knew?
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Has anyone else heard about this? Collecting and preserving your baby’s umbilical stem cells for later use in their medical treatment? Holy damn, yo. It’s the martketing patter which gets to me: “What better gift to an expectant parent than a gift that may one day save a life.” That, and they’ll give you 4% back in college savings through the UPromise program when you enroll.
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Everything that’s going on with me right now — writing essays on virtual presence (forthcoming), staggering under a one-two punch of Lyotard and Bourdieu, founding stupid unrequited springtime crushes on out-of-date Friendster profiles, going days without speaking to anyone save over AIM — seems to have been summed up and mocked by Cat and Girl.
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