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Happy Halloween everyone… or halloween’s eve, actually… Devil’s night around these parts, though Detroit hasn’t burned in a while, so that’s good.
Does everyone have their costumes ready? As soon as I post this, I have to leap back on the sewing machine and finish a poodle skirt for Laurie, and then embroider up a sweatshirt for myself… then carve the pumpkins… but hey, at least the candy is already purchased!
So, this year’s Halloween tribute strip is giving all of it’s love to Berkeley Breathed and Bloom County. I realize a Milo, Binkley or Opus scene would have been more iconic, but John and Bobbi seemed to fit the News Guy and Jane better. Any Bloom County fans out there?
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So, Pop-Up Video has returned to television on VH1. Thanks to my DVR, I’ve spent a goodly amount of time watching it, and I must admit that I’ve been having a good time with it. Partly because the Pop-Up/Spin the Bottle crowd is always good for an interesting tidbit or a good life, but also because it’s just so nice to actually see music videos on on of the music channels again. I never thought I’d see the like, you know?!?
Anyways, they are doing a pretty good job with the show. The music is mostly from the 90′s and the Naughts, and can at time feel like the Rihanna and Jay-Z show, but they do try to keep things balanced, so of the five songs per episode, there will probably be two songs you like in and of themselves, and the pops keep you amused through the other three.
So… it’s a good thing. Anyone else been watching?
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So, Blizzard announced the next World of Warcraft expansion… the Mists of Pandaria. I can only assume that there are some huuuuuuuge Jack Black fans on the staff. I mean, I know Dreamworks doesn’t own the concept of a kung-fu fighting panda… if you’re going for an anthropomorphised fighting character with a chinese bent… it’s kinda obvious… though I might have gone with more of a dragon motif myself… but… whatever…
It’s just that… come on… Kung Fu Panda is frickin’ classic at this point… Wait… let me check to see if the release date is April 1…
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No… doesn’t seem to be… I sure would’ve thought it was a joke though…
Oh well… I don’t even play the game… so I’ll just consider it a good excuse to make another movie poster and get on with my life… I’m sure @onyxsparrow will let me know if it is riddled with JB jokes…
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So, Steve Jobs has passed on.
I realize the inherent irony of honoring the “Think Different” guy with yet another Obama/Hope-style poster on the internet, but let’s agree that it’s not so much an exercise in creativity as it is an attempt to sum up a person.
The Hope poster is iconic. It represents a collective emotion. A feeling that if we choose, we can change the world. We can make it a better place.
Steve was kinda like that. The news last night was filled with endless prattle about how Mr. Jobs was this generations Thomas Edison (he wasn’t) or that he was the greatest salesman (maybe). I don’t know if any of them really nailed it though. He didn’t create the Apple (Woz did), but he did make the computer personal. He didn’t deliver the first commercial mp3 player (Creative did, I believe), but he put on in people’s pockets.
He had a view of the world, and come Hell or high water, he was going to bring that view to life. He was the great facilitator. He was the motive force.
He was a man of vision.
You may like him. You may hate him. But you’ve felt his effect (both for good and ill) on the world around us.
He was a game changer.
He will be missed.
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I normally don’t like when Lucas messes with the Holy Trilogy, but I think he nailed it with this one. I mean you can’t expect Leia to actually get tearful over the guy. He’s lucky that cooking is all she’s doing up there.
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And here we have the second edited scene from Jedi. It certainly makes more sense to me because… let’s face it… finding out that you’re scamming on Vader’s daughter… that’s just awkward!
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Good lord, I’ve forgotten how to draw anything other than Saggy Man Breasts! Oh well… I’ll get back into the swing of it, I’m sure.
As far as Luke and Darth above, I never really bought that instant forgiveness thing… Darth was a jerk! I’m sure things would have gone differently if Luke had known about Padme…
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(The orange bit is a poster by these guys. More on that in a minute.)
I’ve mentioned in the past that I consider Canadian politics a spectator sport. The parlimentary system is… fascinating to behold. In the past 10 years, thanks to geography and easy access to the CBC, I’ve had a front row seat at the 3-ring circus that is Canadian government. Now, I mean no disrespect here… All governments are a circus, but the differences between the way we do things here in the US and the way they do things in Canada is always an interesting study.
Regardless, in these last ten years, there has been a lot of change in Canada, and lot of individuals rising rapidly and fading just as quickly… but all of this time there was Jack Layton, as well. Comical, commanding, ludicrous and sincere. He fought for what he believed in, and he fought hard. Finally, this past May, he carried his party from near obscurity at the start of the decade to the position of Opposition Leader, and it was clear that more change was coming.
He passed away yesterday morning after losing his battle with cancer. I’m not a Canadian (clearly), but the news hit hard. I think it’s because there are so few political leaders out there these days that seem able to command genuine respect as Mr. Layton did. Sure, he was goofy at times, but he fought for what he believed in… again and again. When we heard the news, and as we watched the report, Laurie sat on the couch with me, and she cried. I think that sums up the kind of leader he was. Reading the news and commentary on the web, it’s pretty clear that most of Canada feels the loss whether an individual agreed with his politics or not, they know that the country has lost a rare gem.
A few days before he died, Jack penned a final letter to the Canadians he loved so dearly. Those words have struck a chord with many, and within hours of the letters release, it started spawning derivative works such as the poster I cite above. I can’t say anything better than Jack said himself, so I hope they don’t mind my passing that poster on to you in my own tribute. A leader to the end. A class act. Jack, you will be missed.
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So, I guess this was the Touchpad’s greatest weekend! When HP announced friday night that they were liquidating the things at $99 a pop, the world went on a WebOS buying frenzy! HP sold out in minutes, and there were lines at every physical shop with stock the following morning. Best Buy was the most interesting case. They spent Saturday refusing to sell the things “as they are no longer supported by the manufacturer” and then promptly sold them on Sunday to those who showed up… just in case. Go figure.
As for me, I tried to snag a couple (one for me and one for Brit) through Walmart as they had good stock, but they told me that they had to be ordered via the web for store pick-up to get the price (though they’d happily sell me one at $399), but when you ordered via the web, they charged your card and then cancelled the order an hour later. Walmart had better fix the charges soon or… there will be words.
Twitter’s been fun to watch. There were two camps. The “I want one crowd” and the “WebOS is dead, why would I want that thing crowd”. I can see the latter groups point, but at $99, even without another app ever being released (and that’s discounting the homebrew preware group) or linux or android ever being able to be installed, it’s an awful nice platform for browsing (with java and flash), email, social networking, Kindle book, epub and pdf reading. It seems a decent package for the price to me…
…but alas. T’was not to be.
(Also, spent so long on panel #2, that I didn’t really leave myself time for the other panels… big picture, Dave… big picture…)
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