February 18th, 2011
Why not bid on the original art for the cover of Ewoks #4.
If only you had the full run from the series in NM. Then you’d really feel like a winner.
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February 7th, 2011
Galley Friends J.S. and A.W. send along excellent reading for the day.
First, there’s Joseph Epstein in the Journal on the mortal condition. Even by his own standards, this is awfully good stuff. Lots of hotness concerning Adam & Eve, gangster rap, and Cicero.
The other is a triptych of pieces in New York about internet porn. Start with “The Explosion of Free Online Porn” and move on to “How Porn Is Affecting the Libido” and “They Know What Boys Want.” It’s hard to properly state how great this cover package is.
Best line: In explaining how porn has changed male expectations of, and consequently women’s attitudes toward, real sex:
Monty, 31, an actor from Queens, who between shooting scenes spends about an hour a day masturbating to online porn, says he’s noticed the shift. “I was with a girl who seemed to be in an arms race with porn,” he says. “She had this imaginary Soviet Union she kept trying to out-fuck.”
The only thing I don’t quite buy is that an American actor came up with such a killer line.
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January 28th, 2011
Galley Friend M.C. was kind enough to give me a copy of the Battlestar Galactica Series Bible.
Ruminations on the pro-life aspects of Cylon theology. A detailed explanation of how the FTL drive works. It’s okay. I mean, if you’re into that sort of thing.
1 commentThe TSA’s Baghdad Bob
November 22nd, 2010
First the good news: TSA has a blog up through which they are able to rapidly and directly explain matters to the public, such as the video of the TSA worker frisking a shirtless boy. Under ideal circumstances, this might suggest that TSA sees its mission as an assignment to work the problem, and not enforce the rules.
Now the bad news: The TSA’s blogger is named “Blogger Bob.” (Not to be confused with “Baghdad Bob.”) And he says that everything is just fine and that there are no problems—just myths–and that the polling says 4-out-of-5 dentists agree that the TSA’s peep-n-pat is awesome!
The TSA blog isn’t an exercise in debugging a problematic system–that would be messy and besides, it might be inadvisable from a legal standpoint, since lawsuits against the TSA are likely, if not inevitable. Instead, it’s just propaganda.
It’s one thing for a political part of the government, like the White House or a Congressional office, to have a propaganda arm. It’s quite another for a non-partisan bureaucracy tasked with security issues to be running one.
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