Those of you who’ve been SSTOL regulars since we were in our previous digs will recall that I’m usually offline during the first week in July. Well, tomorrow’s July 1. (Happy Canada Day to our northern neighbors.) I’ll have loads of fun stuff to share when I’m back online in a week. Until then, keep [...]
Archive for June 2009
This Swan has flown
June 30, 2009Comic Art Friday: I want to be a superhero!
June 26, 2009As a voice actor — and in particular, a voice actor with a yen to work in animation — I often think about characters that I would enjoy voicing, if given the opportunity. As a comic book fanatic — and in particular, a comic book fanatic who also happens to be a voice actor — [...]
The King is dead
June 25, 2009The steam was still rising from my fresh-from-the-oven post about the long-anticipated passing of Farrah Fawcett when I received a bulletin about another celebrity — indeed, one of entertainment’s biggest names of the past half-century. Michael Jackson, gone at age 50. Whew. It’s practically impossible to overestimate Michael’s impact on the music industry, and on [...]
Look homeward, Angel
June 25, 2009KCBS just Twittered confirmation of the death of Farrah Fawcett, at age 62. I figured this was coming, given the news last evening that Farrah had been given last rites. Indeed, I fully expected to awaken this morning to reports of her passing. Like any heterosexual American male who reached the full flower of adolescence [...]
What’s Up With That? #79: WWDBD? (What would Debby Boone do?)
June 23, 2009Here’s a story I would never have expected to read while quaffing my morning java. Joseph Brooks, the Oscar- and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter responsible for one of the most insidious earworms ever composed — the saccharine Debby Boone megahit “You Light Up My Life” — has been indicted in New York City for allegedly [...]
Comic Art Friday: Victorious!
June 19, 2009Hey, friend reader. Thanks for dropping by to wish me a happy half-birthday. That is why you dropped by, isn’t it? What? Oh… Comic Art Friday. I see. I will swallow my disappointment. Moving on, then. While you’re here, you might as well check out the latest addition to my Bombshells! theme gallery. For the [...]
The world in the palm of my hand
June 18, 2009Three months ago, I wrote in this space — well, not this space precisely; the other space, the one Blogger won’t let me update any more — about my new Amazon Kindle 2 e-book reader. I promised then that, once I’d had time to explore the device, I’d let you know how I liked it. [...]
Quandary
June 17, 2009Hey, I know I haven’t written anything here in a couple of days. Not to worry, nothing’s wrong. I’ve just been hard at work on other stuff. And I really haven’t had anything new to say. Not writer’s block, exactly. Because I’ve been busy writing all week. Just not this kind of writing. So, I [...]
He made it do what it did
June 14, 2009My friend The Real Sam Johnson would have been 43 today. I say “would have been” because Sam passed away back on April 21, after a long hard struggle with end stage renal disease. I call Sam my friend because, even though we never met in person — Sam lived all the way across the [...]
Comic Art Friday: ‘Tis a gift to be simple
June 12, 2009Sometimes, the least complicated works of art can be the most beautiful. As an illustration (pun intended) of this principle, take this sketch of Mary Marvel, drawn by Cavewoman artist Devon Massey. The linework here is a model of simplicity. (I suspect that this was a preliminary draft for a more detailed drawing.) And yet, [...]
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