Workin’ it
Okay, so we haven't quite awoken from vacation mode yet. Based on our email, neither has anyone else.
What would Clive Owen do?
What would Salma Hayek do?
What would Herbie and the Flaming Carrot do?
Facebook…WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!
I woke up the other day to read this on my Facebook home page:
is now single. Comment
Well, should I comment in public on my friend breakup? "He was cheating on you...
Morrison’s demon days
Vintage Grant Morrison in an interview with A. David Lewis at PWCW:
GM: Yeah! Because it’s the obvious, isn’t it? Again, this isn’t a mystical concept, because I’m not a mystical person sometimes. I...
The future of The Land of Wanders
Graeme McMillan rounds up all of the complaints and dark sides and whatnot in a fairly brilliant post all should read:
It was the con that, it seemed, confounded a lot of people. Press shut...
SDCC: a few last nibbles
Gordon Bennett! It takes a whole week just to catch up with all the Comic-Con stuff online! We are done after this -- we absolutely promise...unless there is something else really cool and smart...
I was finally on NPR
...in a piece on foreign graphic novels:
Americans don't buy a lot of foreign novels, but go to any neighborhood bookstore and you'll find whole shelves devoted to international comics.The trend began with Manga, illustrated...
Sorry about that, chief
Sorry we disappeared off the face of the earth yesterday. A combination of heat-stroke, malaria and dengue fever struck us and we were a bit under the weather. After a few doses of quinine...
One less place to eat in San Diego
San Diego, city of gas explosions and grease fires. The landmark Kansas City Barbeque, a locale well known to convention attendees and viewers of TOP GUN, was gutted in a fire last week:
A fire...
A New Meaning to the phrase Bat-Phone
Did you notice a couple months ago when there was an IRON MAN themed phone?
Well, it's Batman's turn.
I only found out about this when I was paying my cell phone bill and saw...
Things we really dig
§ Laura Park (above ©2008 Laura Park)
§ Jane Be Pure Mineral Gel Eyeliner
§ July 11th
§ Blog posts on horrible black and white comics of the 80s
§ Amir Sadollah
§ Free Afrodisiac story on Vulture, preferably...
The future is now
If you're like The Beat -- and we're certain that you are -- you were sent into major drool-bucket mode at the announcement of the $200 3G iPhone. However such technology comes at...
