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Nov. 5th, 2009 @ 02:54 pm A very proud moment
I just noticed that The Very Silly Mayor is #41 in the Amazon category of Books > Children’s Books > Animals > Birds > Fiction.
The only thing standing between me and #1 is those damn Pigeon books, I’ll bet.
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Nov. 4th, 2009 @ 09:25 pm Catching up
– An article on The Very Silly Mayor, from the Wilmington NC Encore, here. (The Mayor, of course, can be ordered here — and now that we’re past Halloween, isn’t it time to start thinking about the holiday gift-giving season? You bet it is!)
– I talk cartooning with Jen Sorensen, here.
– And: a [...]
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Nov. 3rd, 2009 @ 01:05 pm New cartoon
Joe Lieberman, the most important politician in all of human history. (Link leads to legible version of cartoon. My friends at Salon still seem to have a few bugs in their redesign.)
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Nov. 3rd, 2009 @ 12:01 am Awesome costume
Also from Halloween at the Spectrum. Sorry to say I didn’t see her myself — somebody sent me this pic. I have no idea how she got the half-brain effect. And that’s not just some generic anatomy shirt she’s wearing — that’s based quite specifically on my Backspacer image. Well done, [...]
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Nov. 2nd, 2009 @ 02:15 pm Closing down the Spectrum
The final show, Halloween night:












It was an awesome night …
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Nov. 1st, 2009 @ 03:35 pm The War on Drugs Dealt by People America Isn’t Friends With
Deal opium and don’t do what the U.S. government tells you to do? Instantaneous death from above!
The Obama Administration has also widened the scope of authorized drone attacks in Afghanistan. An August report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee disclosed that the Joint Integrated Prioritized Target List—the Pentagon’s roster of approved terrorist targets, containing three [...]
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Oct. 31st, 2009 @ 05:53 pm Happy Halloween!

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Oct. 27th, 2009 @ 08:40 am Bites


1. "The ego has landed." LOLOLOL!

2. I met the man who bit me 50 years ago and he didn’t know who I was and I didn’t enlighten him.

3. Tis the autumn of an online friendship when both sides are reduced to sending interesting website links. Tis late autumn when one of the participants is not even interested enough to open the links.

4. October Martha Stewart Living made me laugh more than usual: 1. The cover showing toadstools made from various squashes ; 2. Martha at Joshua Trees Park in cropped pants, trainers and bobby sox...such a nerdy look! *L*

5. Ever since I’ve lived here there has always been a teenage boy learning to play the drums somewhere in the neighborhood.

6. From the "Things They Don't Tell You" file-- Everyone has hemorrhoids and that’s a good thing.

"Hemorrhoids are swollen blood vessels that line the anal opening caused by excess pressure from straining during a bowel movement, persistent diarrhea, or pregnancy. There are two types of hemorrhoids: internal and external. Internal hemorrhoids are normal structures cushioning the lower rectum and protecting it from damage by stool. When they fall down into the anus as a result of straining, they become irritated and start to bleed. Ultimately, internal hemorrhoids can fall down enough to sink or protrude out of the anus. External hemorrhoids are veins that lie just under the skin on the outside of the anus. Sometimes, after straining, the external hemorrhoidal veins burst and a blood clot forms under the skin. This very painful condition is called a pile." http://www.disabled-world.com/health/digestive/digestive-disorders.php

7.  Bite 'em, Pete!

8. Every time I hear the ads for SCAN Health Plan, my mind hears SCAM Health Plan.  Who was the genius who thought that was a good name?

9.  "Live team coverage"?  As opposed to what?  Dead team coverage?
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Oct. 27th, 2009 @ 08:20 am Reading List--2009



Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis

The Long Road Home, by Martha Raddatz
Lethal Legacy, by Linda Fairstein–Always like Fairstein’s historical facts about NY. Educational stuff.
The Other Boleyn Girl, by Phillippa Gregory
The Cherry Cheesecake Murder, by Joanne Fluke
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
*Thirteen Moons, by Charles Frazier –Wonderful, glorious prose.
The Treasure of Khan, by Clive and Dirk Cussler–Interesting plot; terrible writing. I think it was Stephen King who said that all adverbs should be banished. This book is an example of why that is true. Cussler has his he-men scurrying and scampering and their eyes sparkling. Makes ‘em sound like hamsters.
Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks --written like a man who thinks he is writing like a woman would like him to write. Zzzzz-
Rutherford B. Hayes; Warrior & President, by Ari Hoogenboom
Phantom Prey, by John Sanford
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill Cody, by Col William F. Cody, 1904
Visions of Sugar Plums, by Janet Evanovich
The North Pole Employee Handbook, by James Napoli
Rutherford B. Hayes, by
Hans L. Trefousse
Didn’t finish–too brief
Just After Sunset, by Stephen King–It’s not Different Seasons (which, contrary to the industry review is exceptional), but some very good bits, nonetheless.
What is the What, by Dave Eggers
Three Bags Full, by Leonie Swann
(Just goes to show how low I will go. *L*)
First Impressions, by Jude Deveraux
Scarpetta, by Patricia Cornwell
Murder Inside the Beltway, by Margaret Truman
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy–Like a Stephen King book without the zombies. I kept hoping someone would catch the father and son and eat them. Zzzzzzzzzzzz
They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions, by Paul F. Boller Jr. and John George.
Half of Paradise, by James Lee Burke
Night Kills, by John Lutz
*Peace Not Apartheid, by Jimmy Carter
Cross Country, by James Patterson
Ines of My Soul, by Isabel Allende
Heat Lightning, by John Sandford
*Grant, by Jean Edward Smith
Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon–unreadable
Nature Girl, by Carl Hiassen
*The Innocent Man, by John Grisham
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Next, by Michael Crichton–Would make a fun thriller flick.
White Doves at Morning, by James Lee Burke

Andrew Johnson, A Biography, by Hans L. Trefousse
*Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
Murder She Wrote: A Slaying in Savannah, by Donald Bain
The Gate House, by Nelson DeMille--Another book I didn't finish. Just couldn't take the main character talking one more time about his wife having been fucked by the Mafia don and then killing him, her lover.
*State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro–Interesting concept; excruciatingly boring execution
*A Faint Cold Fear, by Karin Slaughter
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events), by Lemony Snicket
The Hummingbird’s Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
T
he Rocky Road to Romance, by Janet Evanovich
All Aunt Hagar’s Children, by Edward P. Jones

*The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly
The Hot Kid, by Elmore Leonard
Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald
The Paper Doorway, by Dean Koontz


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