October 2010
Hey, Tumblr!
So, thanks for blowing all of the Posts I had Queued for today overnight. I thought that timing the Queue not to Publish overnight would stop the Queue from Publishing my Posts overnight. That seem to be rather THE POINT OF THE QUEUE.
Also, it appears that my Tumblr page is showing my Posts in the order in which I wrote them, not the order in which I asked the Queue to Publish them. I mean, I suppose I should be grateful that the Queue Published them at all, but still…
Have you thought about getting an IT department? Just a thought.
“I am a very big believer in the power of trash: trash pop culture, trash literature. I really have a lot of affection and belief in that stuff, because art scares people. Trash, pop culture doesn’t. You can put in all the subversive crazy stuff you want in trash culture that will change people’s perceptions of the world, and they will read it and they will take it in. Whereas in art they are going to run from it. So subvert the world through trash.”
—Richard Kadrey, interviewed.
Chaplin: City Lights
Over on the Electric Sheep movie website, Angry Candy creator Andrew Cheverton has contributed a comic strip review of Charlie Chaplin’s classic City Lights, which you can read here.
The comic strip reviews (previously featuring such artists as Paul Rainey, Karen Rubins, and Chris Doherty, among others) are an interesting and fresh way to review movies - Electric Sheep archives previous entries here.
30 Days of Star Wars - Day 7
7. Favourite planet:
Tatooine. Part of me has always liked the romantic appeal of a harsh, back-to-basics lifestyle (I also adore Dune, so maybe I have a thing for sand). Also, Tatooine was the first planet seen in the movies, and it was the very first time I’d ever seen something so realistic, being brought up on fifties sci-fi movies and Doctor Who. I love the moment where Artoo and Threepio are struggling through the dunes and walk past the vast dinosaur-like skeleton. They don’t mention it, the camera barely lingers on it - it’s just there, making the planet seem real in such an understated way that you don’t question it.
