Friday, August 06, 2004

Random Thoughts

I held off posting this particular post in the hopes of getting some more Eleven Comics Lists. Here's what I've found:

  • Milo George's List - AGH! I forgot Maus!!!! How could I possibly forget Maus!?!?? I also like his choices of The Smithsonian Book of Comic Books and Understanding Comics. I have never seen the Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics (but if my library has it, I will see it soon) and I don't recognize many of the others.
  • TangognaT's List - I still forgot Maus. I accept that now. I like the choice of Lone Wolf and Cub, which nearly made my list. In fact, I'm not sure why it didn't.
  • Steven at Peiratikos' List - Amy Unbounded and True Story, Swear to God are both very good choices.

And for me... I need to remember the library. I've been checking out TONS of stuff lately, but it just occurred to me that the library also carries DVDs. Once we run out of backlog for movie night, I know where to go to get more films to watch.

Ringwood posts another long review post worth taking a look at. The language is not mom-safe, but the opinions are nicely conveyed.

Boing Boing as usual points us to a cool site. This one is Colorcell: a Darwinian color game. Votes determine whether or not a cell (made up for four colors) gets a spot in the livingspace.

Here is a beautiful defense of Ken Jennings and Jeopardy. Regarding the silly charge that the fix is in, writer Steve Beverly says: "Consider this for a moment: if you were going to rig a quiz show for maximum audience drama, would you not have far more exciting finishes than what we have had with Jennings?" Very nice response to a cynical backlash. Many thanks to Augie for passing it along.

Monitor Duty directs us to a funky ad for Star Trek (the original series) DVDs on Sci-Fi Heaven.

Here's a summary of the posts I've seen about the Ballard Locks event. I still hope a bit that there will be another event some time.

In honor of Milo's Squirrel army, here is the Seattle Squirrel I "captured" in Nancy's Garden:



Posted by Tegan at 9:53 PM Seattle Time