Unqualified Offerings

Though once a relatively popular blogger, I only ever had one official blogchild, which made me feel sort of wistful when I thought about it. But I’m proud to announce an unofficial blogchild and commend – no, command – it to your attention: the Homerically-named Polytropos: A Blog of Twists and Turns.
Proprietor Nate Bruinooge is [...]

Trends are clear. It’s officially time to add Eve Tushnet to all the “semi-comics blogger” lists out there. Linking to SequentialTart, rhapsodizing about Alias and today, panning the Hulk movie at length, and that’s a few days output.
Also, as Dirk Deppey notes, UO O.G. Justin Slotman has a bunch of interesting comics-related items tucked among [...]

Here in DC, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly “said yesterday she is moving to resolve a long-running dispute over whether the team name and logo for the Washington Redskins are insulting to Native Americans, a ruling that could affect millions of dollars in sales of Redskins paraphernalia,” according to the Washington Post. The suit pits [...]

I need to get back to blogging in the mornings. I had a few things I wanted to write about when I got up. Damned if I can remember what they are now.

Kevin O’Reilly, who says he likes Unqualified Offerings “in spite of the fitness items” is following the pathetic class action suits against the fast food industry, which I, um, covered weeks ago in a couple of fitness items. Hey, his coverage is still excellent, and his blog has a nice design. Go here and here. [...]

Looks like one of these “we really think we got him/thems” panned out. Uday and Qusai Hussein have bought it, diminishething no one.

“We’re certain that Uday and Qusay were killed,” Sanchez said. “We’ve used multiple sources to identify the individuals.”

as quoted by Walter Pincus and Dana Priest in the Washington Post. See? I told you [...]

Via Franklin Harris, this article about all the exclusive deals DC Comics is signing with A-list creators. Interesting. I realized a few weeks ago that, despite my longstanding antipathy toward Marvel Comics, which dates from the piratical 1980s, that they’ve had the edge in quality over DC when it comes to superhero comics lately. I [...]

Feeling . . . so . . . lazy . . . still. And they’re still not running the country the way I want. Bastards. Anyway, stuff to read . . .
God of the Machine – Aaron Haspel is on a blogger inside baseball kick, with notes toward a Devil’s Dictionary and an entry [...]

168 pounds, “waist” 34.5″ let out. Losin’ weight without weed, eating sunflower seed. Mind you, I gained weight without weed too – drugs bulk large in my political life, but not at all in my personal life. Ate a lot of sunflower seeds last week, though.
Never did quite go back on Atkins induction, but I [...]

The weather is so nice I just can’t, as the Brits say, get arsed about the state of the world. It’s been a newsy couple of days, too – those nonexistent weapons of whatever that don’t matter may have encouraged the British government to start killing British citizens (I believe the standard theory holds that [...]