Author Archives: Mark
August 21, 2013 Ranking Straight Outta Lynwood
I’ve been bringing over the Weird Al series I started on my other blog for a while now. As of the last one, though, I’m caught up as far as I made it. So now what used to be a piece of cake, copying and pasting an article, has turned into “oh, right, actual writing […]
Tags: Weird Al
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August 20, 2013 Tuesday Eight: Newspaper Comics
The Internet has changed comicry forever, but growing up all we had was the newspaper. Whenever the local paper would take a poll to see what was popular and what wasn’t, it was a very stressful time for me. We often lost brilliant strips because the (usually older) votes “didn’t understand it” or “didn’t think […]
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August 19, 2013 Better Off Ted S02E10 – Lust in Translation
First it was Daleks, and now Veridian is stealing from Star Trek, trying to perfect a universal translator. This seems like a positive direction, but I think I’m in Phil and Lem’s camp: Veridian doesn’t deal in non-evil. They already have plans to use it in prisoner interrogations, and I’m sure there are other terrible […]
Tags: Better Off Ted, LWST
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August 16, 2013 Elysium
Remember that issue where Richie Rich built a huge orbiting space station and then went to live there and never invited any of his poor friends up to hang out? Neill Blomkamp made it into a movie. Now, it’s actually been a long time (30+ years) since I read a Richie Rich comic, so I don’t […]
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August 15, 2013 Interlude in the Key of Lego
It’s been a long week at work and I am beat and braintired and having trouble thinking full sentences. In fact, if the red squiggly lines didn’t show up to tell me I’d typed something wrong, this post would drive you crazy with the typos and there’d be complaints to the Internet Grammar Police and […]
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