June 2009
9 posts
Idiot Comics Worth Contemplating
A list of good Idiot Comics by Robert Sergel:
Ex-girlfriend
Things I learned in Portland, Oregon
If at first
Signs I am slowly dying
Angry nostalgia (an instant classic!)
Quiet Kid in “Nothing Left”
Here’s a brief article on Sergel.
Yet Another iPhone-a-thon
I haven’t yet been moved to say a lot about this year’s WWDC. I was pleased to see updated macs a-plenty — including new 13” macbook pros and 15” macbook pros with insanely good battery life (although that may be due at least as much to significant efforts to manage consumption as it is because of the new polymer-lithium custom-form-factor batteries.
And of course...
“A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to...”
– Matthew B. Crawford, in “The Case for Working With Your Hands” on NYTimes.com. Good article.
“Fencing is the reason guns were invented.”
– Emily Yoffe, Can I master fencing, the sport for vicious brainiacs? in Slate Magazine. Though Emily finds that fencing is a foible rather than a forté, she plays it for amusment to the hilt. (Also, it’s good to know that my occasional resurfacing interest in fencing is not without its...
“You’d like to think that nearly getting killed would be a major, permanently...”
– Tim Kreider, in an essay titled “Reprieve” in the NY Times’s Happy Days Blog. Krieder is the creator of one of my favorite comics, The Pain — When Will It End?. This is an awesome essay.
“We became sick and tired of our cars and even angry at them. Pointy-headed...”
– P.J. O’Rourke, The End of Our Love Affair with Cars - WSJ.com. Portland-style gulags, indeed.