The Tornadoes’ “The Robot” — another gem from the great folks at Bedazzled, where they feature brilliant things like early Gen X video and a gazillion Harry Nilsson videos and music. Beautiful! Off to the library tonight — it should be fun.
Category: popular culture
Talk of the Town
Or at least the Town Library: I’m part of a panel on the World of Tolkien at the Colonie Town Library. Here’s the skinny: 6:30 PM: The World of Tolkien- A panel discussion on the works of Tolkien and the films made (and to be made) from them. There will be insight into the roots…
SF/PCA Recap Redux
Things appear out of order, as memory dictates. Let me backtrack to lunch with the Comics Area folks before I jump back to Saturday. The lunch is always equal parts fun and irritation, as all events involving large groups are. The Hatfields — after many trials — arrived in time for lunch, but ended up…
SF/PCA Recap
Yeah, yeah — late again: story of my life. What do you expect? We left on a 6am flight. I’ve already mentioned the irritations of that first day of travel, so I’ll leave it at that. My paper on Alan Moore, as I mentioned, went well. Now to decide whether to submit it for the…
PCA etc
Miss Wendy reminds me I need to be planning for San Francisco. The final schedule for PCA is up online (with my strange paper title correct, hurrah!). Suddenly so much to do — and always less time in which to do it. Somehow I’m going to get loads of writing done over spring break, right?…
Happy B-Day, Vic!
Raise a glass of Bovril to England’s top light entertainer, host of television (aka TV), radio, pirate history, and music. [He does not eat bears, though (which is to say that the paparazzi have not yet snapped his picture doing so).]
PCA schedule
(At least the relevant parts for our schedule) My paper is up first: WED MAR 19 / 2.30 pm – 4.00 pmGolden Gate Hall Salon B2 042 Comic Art & Comics II: Novel Approaches to NarrationChair: Claudia Stanger “Phror, becadom, sissirishic and huwf: Alan Moore writes without some pictures”K. A. Laity, The College of Saint…
More Quiet and a little medieval
Elena‘s got more of the Jane Quiet pages up at her Goth Scout pages, where she’s also featuring a run on Andrew Jackson’s ghost who’s busy irritating the scouts. This section of our comic deals with the big monster battle, so there’s lots of cool action. Elena’s doing a bang up job, eh? Even as…
Medieval Simpsons
Thanks to Gene, I got to see the latest Simpsons which aired Sunday. While most of the excitement on line seems to be about the Wiggum ’08 campaign, I was thrilled by the couch gag, which referenced the Bayeux Tapestry. This 11th century tapestry tells the tale of William of Normandy’s defeat of Harold in…
Oxford Bound!
My paper on Moira Buffini’s Silence has been accepted for the conference “Bone Dreams: Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination” next April at the University of Oxford. Do I hear the QI bar calling?