Unqualified Offerings

If you’re one of the handful of prominent bloggers who read this site, AND you have pull with Henry Copeland, AND you feel moved to see if you can get my blogads application unstuck, I would be very grateful. You can even tell me you did it and I’ll kiss your ass. Stanley Kurtz will [...]

Go, Lord-God Bird! Discourse upon what suits you, as I am running behind this morning.

Okay, none of you tipped me to the miniseries repeat tonight. I mean, I still love you, but damn. Missed the first hour and a quarter.
The miniseries turns out to have been very good, though I detect a comparative flatness to the Cylon motivations, just a few hints of the gnarly theological drives to come. [...]

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 [...]