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This past summer, I took on a fill-in show at our...
Jazz! This past summer, I took on a fill-in show at our local campus/community radio station. A traditional jazz show, but I decided to only ever say the station's call letters, frequency, and the word "jazz". Over and over and over again.
Dumb fun where a re-read of Marvel Mastersworks'...
In Which Dr. Strange Swears Like A Normal Person Dumb fun where a re-read of Marvel Mastersworks' Doctor Strange compendiums leads to me swapping out his various oaths for the single most versatile word in the English language. Work in progress. Since I do have a professional life where I'm expected to maintain a level of decorum, there's a password.
Just some dumb fun on December 24: my wife (Kitteh,...
Noddy screams "It's Christmas!" for one hour Just some dumb fun on December 24: my wife (Kitteh, here) said "I could listen to Noddy scream It's Chriiiistmaaaas!! for hours, and I thought I'd test that theory.
I got sick to the teeth of the constant whining...
A Internet Argument Ender about local tax rates I got sick to the teeth of the constant whining about our municipal taxes on local social media and Reddit, so spent an afternoon doing some research on comparable municipalities and tax rates in Ontario. The more valuable end of this from a broader perspective might be a follow-on page about why ratio complaints (our city pays more for XXX than any other city, or our city's taxes are a higher percentage of YYY than other cities') are kind of bullshit.
Canadian law is fun and cool and exciting! Every...
Fundamentals of Canadian Law: a podcast about the law in Canada! Canadian law is fun and cool and exciting! Every three weeks, we release another podcast where we take something in the news or the general cultural conversation in Canada, and break down how the law applies. The web link works, but it's better to look it up & subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.
A different theme each week! MeFite Kitteh and I...
WAFFLES! A weekly radio show/podcast on varying themes A different theme each week! MeFite Kitteh and I co-host a Saturday-morning radio show at CFRC in Kingston, Ontario, and for over three years we've picked a weekly theme and explored it through music, in every style imaginable.
I've been pushing the archives to podcast (legally, under a SOCAN 22F tariff) for a while now. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or Google Play (search for Waffles Radio)!
The site also archives a summer radio fill-in/podcast on video game music and composers, Virtualosos, which ultimately wasn't sustainable.
100 days in, I think this is "real"...
Jerk in Progress - a daily sobriety/accountability podcast 100 days in, I think this is "real" enough to share now -- starting on January 1, I thought I'd reinforce my good intentions with a daily podcast about sobriety, exercise, diet and generally trying to do better. Each daily podcast is at or under 3 minutes, including a 10-second "check-in" at the end.
I like art, so I built a single-serving art...
The Tiniest Gallery I like art, so I built a single-serving art gallery that features local artists and hung it on the fence outside my house.
This started off as me tinkering with a Tumblr...
Pulp Apologies This started off as me tinkering with a Tumblr idea called Pulp Silence -- golden age comics panels with the dialogue balloons blanked -- but I got curious about what else I could put in these balloons. and one thing led to another.
I wanted to start learning how Twitter Bootstrap...
How tall is Jack Reacher? I wanted to start learning how Twitter Bootstrap works, and to brush up on my very rough HTML skills, so in a fit of pique I decided to make a protest site about a certain actor of a certain stature casting himself for a certain movie about a certain men's adventure hero. Including actual-size height charts and short reviews of every Reacher novel according to my patented 4-D Reacher Review® system (Deadly/Daunting/Detective/Drifter).
My blog was ugly and desperately lacking in...
My site is under construction. My blog was ugly and desperately lacking in updates, so I decided to take it offline. Then I thought it would be a good idea to let people know it was under construction. Then I got a bit carried away. Powered in part by AskMeFi.
I meant to write a genre-shattering zombie comic....
Dead Eyes Open: How I Screwed Up The Zombie Revolution I meant to write a genre-shattering zombie comic. What I actually wrote was an overambitious sprawling mess that started off well and devolved into complete incoherence. Now, with the publisher's permission, I'm blogging the entire run of my comic book Dead Eyes Open, with page-by-page notes and a particular focus on how things went horribly, horribly wrong in the writing process. First page here.
Trying to "solve" Rashomon is absolutely...
In Which I Ruin Rashomon For Everyone, Forever Trying to "solve" Rashomon is absolutely the stupidest possible way to approach this Kurosawa masterpiece. But diagramming it in a bullheaded attempt to figure it all out... that can only be described as a sensible use of one's time. Now with added Ted Sallis!
So I wrote the Captain Blood adaptation for SLG,...
Captain Blood and the Peril of Indie Comics! So I wrote the Captain Blood adaptation for SLG, and we were all kind of gloomy about its chances, given that rack space in comic shops for indie books is limited, especially for classic novel adaptations. Then we had an idea.
Basically a one-off Friday/Saturday...
McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More Basically a one-off Friday/Saturday done-on-the-GIMP project that took root in my brain when I realized that John McCain is essentially exactly the same character as Frank Miller's crazed sexagenarian Batman from The Dark Knight Returns. It's been linked to on a coupla blogs (and I mentioned it in The Palin Thread), but I'd like to see the meme spread, and I think it's fun.
With well over 1300 strips in the archives (plus...
Man-Man Comics: superheroic satire since 2001! With well over 1300 strips in the archives (plus another 1000 or so from the first version of the strip), Man-Man is hardly a "new" project, but continues to evolve...
Initially thought of as a sort of online sidebar...
The Venerable Bédé: an English-language resource focused on European comics Initially thought of as a sort of online sidebar to a column I'm writing on bande dessinée (European comics, most commonly Franco-Belgian) for a North American comics magazine, this project just kept growing in scope and scale as I looked and looked for current, engaging English-language information on European comics and found that there just isn't much out there.
Dead Eyes Open, a series I wrote for SLG and that...
Zombie comic out in TPB - Free PDF of chapters 1 & 2 Dead Eyes Open, a series I wrote for SLG and that a Hollywood screenwriter would pitch as "the West Wing meets Dawn of the Dead", came out in trade paperback this week. That's an Amazon link, as it's not in the SLG store yet, but I also encourage you to patronize your friendly local comics shop.
I've put both Chapter One (4.7 MB) and Chapter Two (4.6 MB) -- the first third of the book -- online as free PDFs.
In retrospect, this was a 12-issue story that I (over)ambitiously tried to cram into 6 issues, because 6 issues was all I had. The Publisher's Weekly description of the pacing as "frenzied" is accurate, if a bit harsh.
Blow for blow, though, I still think it's the most ambitious zombie book, in terms of really taking the genre in new directions and trying new things, that's ever been released. Please do check it out.
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