A random post to an online forum I frequent jolted into memory a fact that I hadn’t considered before today… I’ve been online for 15 years. That’s almost as long as the World Wide Web itself has been around. I bought my first computer way back in 1988, with a chunk of my original Jeopardy! [...]
Archive for November 2009
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November 30, 2009Comic Art Friday: Black (Panther) Friday
November 27, 2009If you were among the millions throwing elbows and shoving shoulders over retail bargains before daybreak… well, you have my pity, if not my empathy. Here at SSTOL, we decline to engage in such frivolity. Instead, we’re celebrating Black Friday with a look at one of our favorite heroes, the Black Panther. When it comes [...]
SwanShadow Gives Thanks: This Time, It’s For Real
November 26, 2009On each of the five most recent Thanksgiving Days, I’ve used this space — and the space this blog occupied previously — to itemize in alphabetical format a random sampling of things for which I am grateful. This year, I told myself: If it’s working, don’t fix it. Thus, the sixth annual edition of SwanShadow [...]
Comic Art Friday: Bring the Storm
November 20, 2009We’re getting one of our first real storms of the season here in northern California today. How apropos, then, that for this Comic Art Friday post, we look at a drawing featuring one of my favorite superheroines — the weather-manipulating mutant known as Storm. This pencil sketch by artist Craig Hamilton was drawn as a [...]
The Freak abides
November 19, 2009Believe it or don’t, I was completely surprised by today’s announcement that the Giants’ Tim “The Freak” Lincecum won his second consecutive Cy Young Award as the National League’s best pitcher in 2009. If I’d been voting, I’d have voted — as did the San Francisco Chronicle‘s respected baseball beat writer, Henry Schulman — for [...]
What’s Up With That? #83: Cap’n Jack bests Cap’n Swan… again
November 18, 2009For the umpteenth consecutive year, the editorial staff of People Magazine has seen fit to deny me my rightful title of Sexiest Man Alive. Instead, they picked Johnny Depp again. This seems a rather pointless exercise. Most of the women I know already think Johnny Depp is, if not the Sexiest Man Alive, at least [...]
Comic Art Friday: With a little Luck
November 13, 2009What do you know, Pogo — Friday the 13th actually came on a Friday this month. I’m not superstitious myself, but for the benefit of our triskaidekaphobian readers, we’d better dose up with a little luck. Lady Luck, that is. The lovely Lady Luck, drawn here by Michael Dooney of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame, [...]
World Series Wonderboy
November 12, 2009Congratulations to 21-year-old Joe Cada, who earlier this week became the youngest player ever to win the World Series of Poker Main Event. Cada outdueled Darvin Moon, a logger from Maryland, to take down the most prestigious prize in poker, the World Champion’s gold bracelet. On the ultimate hand, Cada’s pocket nines bested Moon’s Queen-Jack [...]
Hug a veteran today
November 11, 2009…or, at the very least, shake a veteran’s hand, if you’re not down with the whole hugging thing. And if you yourself have served with honor in the United States Armed Forces? Pat Patriot loves you.
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