…which promises to be above the usual webcomic filler: various cultural artifacts as part of “an informal survey of serial storytelling” and lots of guest blogs from other people doing Lovecraft-themed webcomics. Sounds like fun.
I’d also like to note again that Tour de Lovecraft
(Original tip-off Don Surber)
They are not happy, big fuzzy goofballs that drink Coke with penguins and submit to being ridden by large-breasted Germanic women with eyepatches. They are a half-ton, carnivorous apex predator species that have never had burned into their very DNA the concept that human beings don’t taste good. Polar bears exist solely because we really didn’t start dealing with them on a regular basis until after we invented environmentalism; if the Arctic Circle had had easily accessible iron deposits we’d have wiped out the species thousands of years ago.
EVER.
This sort of thing happens to me all the time.
Woody Harrelson claims he mistook photographer for zombie
CNN) — Woody Harrelson defended his clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity — he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.
The TMZ photographer filed a complaint with police claiming the actor damaged his camera and pushed him in the face at La Guardia Airport, according to an airport spokesman.
Although I have to criticize the technique. Even if you’re wearing gloves: never, ever, ever push a zombie in the face. That’s just an invitation to having your hand gnawed, which will of course lead to infection, death, and reanimation as one of the walking dead. I know that people say that cutting off the extremity in time can prevent that, but that’s a million-to-one shot, and it’s such an avoidable mistake.
Clearly Mr. Harrelson needs to catch up on his technical reading
…(not that there’s anything wrong with that), avoid this:
From comments of this Hot Air post about an industrial safety video that itself has to be seen to be believed.
I was looking for quotes from this highly enjoyable Vanity Fair article (via AoSHQ & And Still I Persist) that would illustrate the haplessness of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. (“He is a lifelong New Yorker, but there is no trace whatsoever of region or ethnicity in his speech” was a good example*) – or at least complement the vicious, yet accurate analysis that the picture above represents – but these two paragraphs blew me away completely. Particularly the second one:
Some at the Times anticipated this tectonic shift years ago, but Arthur wasn’t listening. Despite lip service about change, he presides over a slow-moving beast. Diane Baker, who was regarded as an energetic and forceful outsider, ran up against this in her years as C.F.O. When she took the job, in 1995, she was shocked to discover that the company was still doing all its accounting by hand. “They literally did not have the ability to produce spreadsheets,” she says. “They had not invested in the software you need to analyze data. It is a company run by journalists. The Sulzbergers are journalists at their core, not businessmen.”
Her biggest disappointment came when she crafted a potentially lucrative partnership with Amazon.com
**, already the biggest bookseller on the Internet. The Times would link all the titles reviewed in the paper’s prestigious Sunday Book Review section, ordinarily a money drain, to the online bookseller and receive a percentage on every book sold. “We could have made the Book Review into a big source of revenue,” she recalls. Baker knew that Amazon.com
If you felt any sorrow for the New York Times‘ travails, stop right now. Never mind that it’s a liberal-leaning paper that doesn’t want to admit it (the first part of that is no big deal, the second part of it is); never mind that it’s being run as essentially a vanity press (on an epic scale not seen elsewhere, to be sure); never even mind that the publisher’s so self-evidently a schlub that not even Vanity Fair could hide it. All of these things are survivable. Continue reading The New York Times: Doomed, and deservedly so?
I should probably be glad that I don’t have a computer that can handle this:
Especially since apparently they got the voice actors from Batman: The Animated Series
Moe Lane
Guess the Wii
What the hell is going on here?
Yes, yes, I know: it is a heavy metal cover of the Space Cruiser Yamato
All that being said: what the hell is going on, here? What kind of lunatic lets anybody handle a katana blade with ungloved hands?
Those of you who do not game, please wait.
Those of you who do: do you remember your first real RPG character? The first one that you spent any amount of time fleshing out, in your mind?
You do?
Then remember also Dave Arneson, for he was the man that made that possible for us, and he has passed on to his reward. No cheesy joke about rolling well on the appropriate tables, although he probably wouldn’t have minded.
Thanks to Brother Jeff of RS – and his own site – the perfect way to handle those who simply won’t do their own work:
Wonderful, isn’t it? The best part is, do it once and all karmic obligations are paid off forever.
