Bill Simmons has posted one of the best things he’s ever written on Grantland, “The Movie Star,” which examines both Ryan Reynold’s and Will Smith’s perceived stardom, and the differences with the average fan knowing, definitively, who is or isn’t a movie star. His read on Will Smith seems (for now) spot-on, and I hope [...]
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The Movie Star by Bill Simmons
Posted in Comedy, Film, Writing, tagged Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, Grantland, Ryan Reynolds, The Movie Star, Will Smith on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Things Adam Hates
Posted in Comedy, Unhealthy addictions, Writing on June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So there was this adolescent named Adam. He was known in his family for eye-rolling. He was known in his peer group for being a young George Carlin (I’m assuming here that his peer group doesn’t know George Carlin). Gee, I really could give this a proper introduction, but please spend a few minutes with [...]
“Terrified Ray Allen Discovers Celtics Lab Containing Thousands Of Test-Tube ‘Big Babies’”
Posted in awesome, Comedy, NBA, Writing, tagged Big Baby Davis, Ray Allen, screaming in unison, test tube, The Onion on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Onion wins again. Genius. Goddamn, they piss me off sometimes. “I walked up to one of them, tapped on the glass, and the test-tube Big Baby inside opened its eyes,” Allen continued. “I just kind of panicked and started screaming, and then the liquid in the tanks started bubbling and all the Big Babies [...]
Joe Rogan Is Unafraid
Posted in Art, awesome, Comedy, Film, Quotes, Writing, tagged Joe Rogan, military industrial complex on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“A million people die in Iraq, and all these people go, ‘Hey, as long as it doesn’t happen over here.’ But it is over here! It’s over here=over there! It’s people you don’t know, who were born somewhere else, who fucking got jacked. You get trapped in that whole idea of ‘this is my team, [...]
Architect Gary Chang Transforms One Room Into 24
Posted in Architecture, Art, Creativity, Design, Music, Writing, tagged Cary Chang, Frank Black, Massiff Central, Ray Bradbury, Show Me Your Tears on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
…right before your eyes. Remarkable. Now, I’m not advocating living in boxes on top of each other- it’s my pig-headed belief that trees and restaurants make a city, not buildings (I’m from that Ray Bradbury school), but it really is an ingenious use of space, using every part of the architectural buffalo, if you will. [...]
Mark Titus Is Awesome
Posted in blog, Booze, Comics, Film, Good People, illustration, Music, Writing, tagged Canis Hoopus, Evan Turner, John Wall, Mark Titus, Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA, Ohio State, Thunderdome of Chiaroscuro on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t follow college ball, mostly because I went to art school, and I don’t have an alma mater team, unless there’s a World Champion Thunderdome of Chiaroscuro or Font Kerning of which I am unaware, where you’re allowed to use a color wheel, linseed oil and a mace. (The Color-arnage!) I do, however, follow [...]
Matthew Ryan- Dear Lover
Posted in Art, Courage, Creativity, Music, Writing, tagged Amazing Grace, Bruce Springsteen, Dear Lover, Kraftwork, matthew ryan, Never Give In, Shane McGowan, The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Waterboys, Tom Waits, Winston Churchill on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, he’s done it again. I’d be hard pressed to think of an artist who has released as many great albums as Matthew Ryan has in the past 12 years. His latest, Dear Lover, is no different. Written from an emergency room (hopefully everything is ok now, either with Matthew’s family or himself), it’s yet [...]
Kenwoode: 2nd Part of Page 7
Posted in Art, Comics, illustration, kenwoode, Productivity, Writing, tagged kenwoode, New Page on November 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here‘s the second section of Page 7; I just looked at the dates (I sign each panel as I finish ‘em) and realized I haven’t done one in almost 10 days. I’m on it.
Damn, but that Sir Terry Pratchett can Write
Posted in Art, Books, Comedy, Writing, tagged Alzheimer's research, Discworld, Miss You, Terry Pratchett, The Rolling Stones, The Truth on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just finished reading The Truth by Terry Pratchett, another of his Discworld series. I feel completely embarrassed to discover that he’s been one of the most popular novelists in the UK (probably only barring J.K. Rowling, really) for decades. It’s a bit how I felt when I didn’t really get the Stones until my twenties. [...]
New Kenwoode Panels!
Posted in Art, Comics, kenwoode, Writing, tagged bastardized American Cockney rhyming slang, Cerebus, Dave Sim, kenwoode, new panels on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s just two, and, of course, I’m missing a page because I wasn’t sure if I liked the way I inked it, but two have been added against all odds, and they can be found here. It’s the little things, really. I’m going to commit to a panel a day (two down!), which is really [...]
Kenwoode Update: First day of Fall
Posted in blog, kenwoode, Writing, tagged Dreamworks, Kenwoode News, Kung Fu Panda on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick note on progress: I’m about 5 pages from finishing the first draft of the Kenwoode II screenplay. Got some illustrating done this weekend, and I’ll have a few panels to post this week. Just saw Kung Fu Panda. The opening dream sequence with the cut-out paper style is staggering. Dreamworks really stepped [...]
Sloganeering, or, How Bono Is Rock’s Yogi Berra
Posted in Music, Writing, tagged Bono, No Line On The Horizon, U2 on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A friend gave me U2′s latest album, No Line On The Horizon, which, I have to admit, is growing on me (after I had sort of decided I was done with them). What’s struck me most is Bono singing with the abandon he used to have, while his lyrics have taken on a somewhat trite, [...]
Paul Westerberg Thursdays
Posted in Music, Writing, tagged Friends, Paul Westerberg, Paul Westerberg Thursdays, Stain Yer Blood on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stain Yer Blood: According to the Interwebs, the lyric is supposedly: It’s okay, Stained and not for fun I won’t stain your blood I won’t stain love But I think that’s bullshit lazy Interweb cut ‘n pasting. I think the lyrics are: It’s okay, Stay the night for fun I won’t stain your blood I [...]
I Don’t Want to Change the World, I’m Not Looking For a New England
Posted in Art, blog, kenwoode, Music, Politics, Writing, tagged A New England, Billy Bragg, Kate Nash, kenwoode, Levi Stubb's Tears, Waiting for the Great Leap Forward on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love this song. Made better by the drunken German sing-along, and the key-change Kirsty MacColl final lyric: Here’s a nice little concert mash-up with Kate Nash: And here’s Billy on the Henry Rollins Show, singing Waiting for the Great Leap Forward (with the great spot-on observation about Mtv’s absolute irrelevance): I’ll go into Levi [...]
What’s Unfilmable?
Posted in Art, Books, Comics, Film, kenwoode, Writing, tagged Death, Neil Gaiman, Unfilmable, Watchmen, Wired on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wired has a nice little article about what’s unfilmable in Hollywood- which books or comics cannot be done correctly? The Neil Gaiman quote slaps you right on the face: “It’s not film-shaped,” Gaiman said. “I went out to Hollywood with beautiful artwork and toys and did a presentation…. I got to the end, very proud [...]
Matthew Ryan- Some Streets Lead Nowhere
Posted in Art, Music, Writing, tagged matthew ryan, Some Streets Lead Nowhere, Unbelievable on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a stunning song. Cannot wait for the next Matthew Ryan album. He really can do no wrong, in my book. From that old street to that new house to those beautiful hills Inside your blouse To the rain that kept falling And those years off the rails When we smiled like two sailors With [...]
Revenge
Posted in blog, Quotes, Writing, tagged John Milton, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Paradise Lost, Quotes, revenge, Sean Elder on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was discussing writing with a friend of mine, and thought about a quote I heard one time: “Writing is revenge.” I looked it up, and although I couldn’t find it, I did find a couple of other great ones: The best revenge is not to become like the one who wronged you. -Marcus Aurelius [...]
