Unqualified Offerings

Couldn’t the President have preempted coverage of tonight’s lamentable Wizards-Bulls game instead of whatever he’s cutting into tomorrow? Not that I was going to watch television tomorrow, but he’d have saved me some heartache in front of the tube this evening.

Chris Tallman’s Batman. Six megs of action-figure filmmaking you need to see. Via Balloon Juice.
Oh by the way, light blogging tonight because this week’s haul of comics turned out to be unusually good. Even a book I expected to stink turned out to be enjoyable.

The latest news from Japan is entirely too Life Imitates Cyberpunk somehow – private detective agencies, long known as the folks you go to if you want to establish grounds for divorce, have started a new line of business getting couples back together. Some of the explanation of how this happens makes my head hurt, [...]

Retro McDonalds are opening. That’s pretty cool. I’m just old enough to remember non-retro genuine Golden-Arch outlets.
(Via Dynamist blog.)

In discussing Klarion the Witch-Boy last night, I should have said that Irving Frazier’s art has something of Edward Munch homage about it. See Klarion (pdf) and some representative Munch.

Found via a Crooked Timber thread, fontifier.com will turn scans of your handwriting into a font for your computer, for nine bucks.
The 21st Century kicks ass sometimes.

General Myers says that “I think [the Iraqi insurgency's] capacity stays about the same and where they are right now is where they were almost a year ago,” per AFP. I am therefore inclined to predict the insurgency’s utter collapse within three months. But I can be a jerk sometimes.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Berlusconi sounds kind [...]