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I like beauty of line in a comic, and to have it be a fantasy comic is all the better. For some stunning visuals, check out fallen, and admire.

Monkeys are much fun and cause for glee, no? Well, here are the best logos I have seen this year. (mind you, potty mouths abound here if that bugs you)

monkeyfuckingafootball.com

In case you missed it, Jon Stewart was on Crossfire. If you missed it, you can check out the transcript. Better yet, you can watch it (35 Mb wmv via whole lotta nothing).

I have seen a few takes on this piece:
onfocus.com
joho the blog
a whole lotta nothing

I was really interested to see Stewart trying to say something beyond the role of the Daily Show and try to get into the role of Crossfire. While he was put down in a lot of ways, I think he made some really salient points worth thinking over.

I was just sorta amazed that they couldn’t talk, that they wanted him to just be funny. I mean, he is funny because he’s a comedian and his show works to point out how ridiculous things sound, but to pull him on another show and really needle his integrity amazes me. The Daily Show is a comedy, a comedy which points to things that are a problem in our system, but overall about entertainment.

I think Jon Stewart was trying to be serious on Crossfire as another person who interacts in the media world. I don’t think he was taken that way, but I have to respect that he tried.

The Dark Tower series has had me very excited, so after I finished reading the last nonfiction book I was working on, I decided to take on another Stephen King piece. This time I read The Eyes of the Dragon.

Some folks would say it’s different because it’s a more “normal” fantasy than King would normally write. I don’t think that’s entirely true. The narrative voice is a lot of fun, and I imagine a rather gruff lackluster storyteller behind the whole thing. To me, that was a lot of the attraction of the whole thing.

The story does move fairly slow, and I certainly found myself ploughing through the second half of the book at a happier clip than the first half. The characters were still well developed, in keeping with a strong ability, even though the story wasn’t quite as compelling as others I’ve read. However, as fairytales to tell children go, I liked this a whole bunch. The chapters are short enough that you could give a three chapter a night dose easily and keep the book going for a long time with an interested kid. The edition I have has rather lackluster illustrations, but otherwise i thought it was a neat venture.

I’ve been on a bit of a “watching” spree since I’ve been out of the loop for a while and enjoying a new Netflix account.

Northfork was pretty interesting since it’s so visual. The sights are stunning in a subtle way, and the movie is compelling in a subtle way. Definitely something neat to sit back and ponder.

The movie focuses on a town about to be flooded for a dam. This is a topic I’ve come back to now and again since I started college. Hampshire College worked to instill a knowledge of what lies beneath the Quabbin Reservoir that quenches Boston’s thirst. I had always wondered what the process was like, at the time, getting people to leave. I think this movie looks into that time and that feeling, but in a setting that has grander visuals than Massachusetts. Montana is, after all, rather vast in comparison.

Well, I have stumbled across Spamusement, which is celebrating it’s 100th strip. It’s quite funny and worth a gander and a giggle or two.

I love people who link to neat things, because it means I can link to wonderful things. Or at least it means I can find out about more interesting things.

Check out the angsty goth neatness of Ornery Boy.

I’ve been enjoying a thread going through Scary Go Round, since the time travel theme is being taken to a slightly different level here. I especially like Shelly’s surliness, since she reminds me much of myself in moments of utter honesty. *sigh*