My old friend Dean Mullaney sent me a link to Alan Light’s photos of the 1982 San Diego Comics Convention.
I’m all over page two, including one candid shot with the secret love of my life. (She’s now a neurosurgeon — seriously. I probably served as inspiration.)
Anyway, kids, here’s your chance to see what the next 25 years will do to *you*!
Time, you unforgiving bastard…!
Nothing against the actor, but this is just wrong.
If they were that concerned about political correctness, they should have just made him a talking vase.
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Ingmar Bergman.
Michaelangelo Antonioni.
Tom Snyder.
Los Angeles Times: To hold down medical costs, some firms are penalizing workers who are overweight or don’t meet health guidelines.
Boy, do I have mixed feelings about this…
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While the rest of the comic book industry rubs shoulders — and practically every other bodily part — in a cram-packed San Diego convention center, I’m second-, third-, and ninth-guessing myself on a script that I worry may be too unsparingly human for a superhero comic.
In the ’70s, readers could deal with this kind of stuff. In the aughts, I’m not so sure.
Bitch, moan. Bitch, moan.
Reverse the order of those two words, and an annoying mode of complaint becomes a smutty imperative sentence.
It’s going to be a long and bizarre weekend.
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From “Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour”:
On July 13, 2007, I visited Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where the bodies of American soldiers killed in Iraq were freshly interred. Afterwards, I headed across the street to the Sheraton National Hotel, owned by right-wing Korean cult leader Sun Myung-Moon, to meet some of the war’s most fervent supporters at the College Republican National Convention.
Must-see agitprop. 3.5 stars.
If you didn’t catch last night’s *Bill Moyers Journal* on PBS, you might want to take a look at this video segment:
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL explores the talk of impeachment with Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION’s John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT
It’s over twenty minutes long, but worth the time. It’s a discussion of the Founding Fathers’ rationale for the *concept* of impeachment, not just its applicability to current office-holders. My jaw dropped when I heard what Bruce Fein — a well-respected legal scholar, but also a bona fide arch-conservative — had to say on the topic. You just don’t get this kind of discussion anywhere else in the media.