I have spoken before about the Marvel Comics superhero named Rogue. Her powers are a sort of mega-empathy: She absorbs the abilities of anyone she touches.
I can relate.
Lately, my empathy powers are really hauling ass. We have been working pretty obsessively for Barack Obama’s campaign, and we have found a wonderful community of like-minded Americans that [...]
I love that book. It’s one of those New Age mumbo-jumbo gumbo things. It takes the exact number of bricks in the hallways of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, divides them by some funky myths of the Illuminati, adds it all up with a dash of environmentalism, and proves that the world will end on Cinco De [...]
It’s the last day of Crime Lords Month. It’s been seven months straight for this blog, non-stop documenting the verities of my existence. It’s time to take stock.
I don’t think we ever really “get there”. Even on the days we win the trophy, or preview the Squirrel Girl, or hear the final bell at the end [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Mike Watt sent me an email, with that amazing photograph. In case you don’t know Mike Watt, he is only the greatest bass player who ever lived. If you have been here a while, you have seen me blog about him before.
This was the spiel. Remember what Vs. System card we just previewed, [...]
(The Rain of Acorns by Juvuan Kirby. From Upper Deck’s Vs. System.)
Give me a whole week off, and things will get nuts. While Nina and I are shaking the tree to high heaven, you might want to find out where you fall in our polls on the Daily Kos. I should be able to come [...]
Sports and Superheroes. Two great tastes that taste great together. Clicking that link will time travel you back one year, and Nina will be wishing luck to Dontrelle Willis in person, as he rubs my belly.
Then you will fast forward to the present moment, just in time to see the first pitching change of 2008. [...]
(Primary Directive, by Chris Warner, from Upper Deck’s Vs. System.)
Time to take a deep breath, and relax.
In…
Out…
Ahhh.
Okay, I got the new Rallying Cry done and submitted, packaged up the first round of Obama Flavor shirts, wrote my lesson plans for the week, made twenty students laugh and feel better about themselves, and sat down to [...]
Is a human life just a long series of addictions? Are we actually hooked on survival, and when that flow runs out, do we get an automatic fix? Whatever those answers may be for you, I often give my daily grind a quick scan to see what I am stuck on at the moment. If I find [...]
Do you know Jank? I would hazard a guess that about 38% of our readers do not. Let me ’splain.
I once wrote an article that offered a rather academic explanation, including an eyewitness account of the origins of the word itself. We have talked about the phenomenon on the message boards at length, but defintitions of [...]
(Wanda getting her Chaos on. Artwork by Brian Stelfreeze from Upper Deck’s Vs. System.)
The ultimate culmination of any inspirational activity? Seeing a group of other people engaged in the creative pursuit that you were trying to expose the world to. In other words, the writer is most satisfied when the readers take the ball and [...]
