February 28, 2004

funny or homophobic?

my friend Jon is so gay, that the Human Torch spontaneously 'flames on' when Jon is around.

now reading: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) (Bedford Cultural Editions)- Stephen Crane, Kevin J. Hayes

thecomicman spoke @ 07:58 PM |

February 27, 2004

why can't i watch "Grave of the Firelies"!?

i started watching it on Tuesday morning. fifteen minutes before the movie ended, my copy fucked up. i was all, "well crap." but then i remembered that i had second copy lying around, and i hoped that one would be good. i popped that one in and it worked for exactly two minutes longer than the other one. i looked at the clock and realized i had just enough time to go down to the school library and watch the end there before work. so i schlep myself all the way down there and i get to Bobst. the fuckers have it on order and it won't be in until next week. those goddamn sons of bitches.

i still need thirteen more minutes of 'Grave of the Fireflies' before i can count it as watched.

now reading: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson)- Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Dury

thecomicman spoke @ 12:12 PM |

February 25, 2004

i rode in J-Pop's trunk

for my birthday party extravaganza, Sam and ET decided to take me to Chuck E. Cheese's because i had never been there before. a bunch of folks went, we ate pizza, we played some skeeball, and i realized this would be better if i were younger. then two groups of kids started screaming obscenities at each other. we left and someone suggested i ride in J-Pop's trunk. "that's a capital idea!" i said, and so i did. with the exception of J-Pop's purposeful brakes and jerks (at one point i yelled, "jerk!" after some of the braking had occured and someone replied "that's what we're doing," or something akin to that; it was hard to tell, me being in the trunk and all), it was an okay ride. if nothing else, i now know how to write a scene with the pov of a character inside a trunk.

now reading: Washington Square (Penguin Classics)- Henry James, Brian Lee

thecomicman spoke @ 01:36 AM |

February 12, 2004

but she's Korean! and a woman!

from a website that Rick linked to:

'I propose that even if there were a ban on eating dog meat in Korea, and whale meat in Japan, we Asians would still be looked upon as a yellow race with strange habits…. Is it any surprise that the USA would test the devastation of a nuclear bomb only on Japan?'

the main thrust of the article was about a stupid French woman who called Koreans barbaric and liars right before the last World Cup because they eat dog.

most of the article is pretty benign, saving its bile for the stupid French woman only. then this quote from Professor Yong-Geun Ann makes an appearance.

okay, there are lots of racist people, many of then in the US, but that's not why the bomb was dropped on Japan. the bomb was dropped because Japan was being bad. if Japan hadn't been bad, the bomb wouldn't have been dropped. how this fact escapes a Korean who is also a woman, and apparently educated, is beyond me.

now reading: Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov

thecomicman spoke @ 09:35 AM |

February 09, 2004

"I don't know, but I think it turns me on."

this, according to Professor Patell, was said by one of his students when asked what a certain passage in Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' meant.

also, did you know that people actually wrote thirty-five page papers on stuff? and i don't mean fun stuff like comics, i mean boring things like economics and pop psychology. crazy.

while we're on the subject, never, ever read On the Road. Kerouac can't actually write. he can type a whole hell of a lot, but he can't write.

now reading: On the Road- Jack Kerouac

thecomicman spoke @ 09:18 PM |

February 05, 2004

blame J-Pop

create your own visited states map

now reading: Superman: Red Son (Elseworlds)- Mark Millar

thecomicman spoke @ 03:34 PM |