Apple’s Newton Just Won’t Drop
I knew there was a reason I held on to my 130. In point of fact, I have back-burner project to install a WiFi driver on it, since I have a spare 80211b card lyin’ around.
Ha-ha yourself, Nelson.
VR Schizophrenia
NPR : The Sights and Sounds of Schizophrenia
Man, this is cool.
I’d love to get the soundtrack from the sim to put on at a party.
I lived wth a schizophrenic man for a couple of years in Bloomington. He was seriously tormented by his illness. Once I awakened to find him inserting another roommates’ discarded medical injection needles directly into the veins on the back of his hand while yelling, in obvious emotional distress, at his voices. He had selected these enormous large-bore needles that the other roomie used to rehydrate his meds – I mean these needles had an interior diameter of up to 5mm.
My schizoid roommate had these needles stuck into all his veins and it was as if he’d just pulled a stopper out of his circulatory system. Blood was everywhere; when he’d gesture to emphasize a particularly compelling rant, streams of blood would go flying around the kitchen.
I got really angry with him and browbeat him into yanking the needles out, helped him bandage his hands, and made him promise that he’d never do anything like it again. It was a suicide attempt, I think; but it was hard to say with him because he was so in-and-out of coherence. He was not coherent that night.
I talked with him at length, over time, about both the general symptoms of the disease and experiences he has consequently had; and also his internal system of explanations and justifications that he’s developed and maintained since the onset of his disease, as a teenager.
I hope very much that this sim is released to the general public.
DIRTY STORIES VOLUME 3 and DRAWN AND QUARTERLY Vol. 3
Originally posted July 8, 2002.
D&Q vol 3 is the best collection title now publishing in the States; this volume includes the powerful “Monsieur Jean”, 1999’s “Best Comic Album” at the French b-d awards, Angouleme. The win was clearly deserved.
Dirty Stories is Fantagraphic’s high-minded smut anthology; as such, it has a range of work, almost all of it ambitious, none of it so, um, stimulating as to make Larry Flynt express concern.
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THE STUFF OF DREAMS
Originally posted August 17, 2002.
Grand old man Deitch offers a thousand dollar bounty for a genuine 1920’s Waldo doll. Pretty cool.
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THE INCAL #2
Originally posted January 11, 2002.
Expanded reincarnation (new script, new art) of the Jodorowsky-Moebius late-eighties classic falls short despite high production values; OTOH, Moebius is a hard act to follow, yes?
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TALL TAILS #1-13
Originally posted January 11, 2002.
Labor of love and cult title suffers from lack of editorial control and too-small reproduction at digest size.
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SUPER DOOPER GROOVY SPACE CHICKS #0
Originally posted May 12, 2002.
Hoo boy. Um, not a complete waste of time? Uses MS Comic Sans throughout, which is reason enough to avoid, Macgruder’s Boodocks to the contrary. Strange publication choices.
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SUCKLE: THE STATUS OF BASIL
Originally posted June 30, 2002.
Dave Cooper may be the reason South Park chose to “Blame Canada”. No one else in comix is so fascinated and repulsed by human sexuality. This allegory-ish coming of age tale is well worth reading.
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SOCK MONKEY: A CHILDREN'S BOOK
Originally posted November 3, 2001.
Millionaire pursues your children with this beautiful, slightly creepy kids’ book.
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MIGRAINE BOY
Originally posted October 27, 2001.
Greg Fiering’s analytic subversion of suburbia strips similar to Peanuts and Family Circus captures the pain, stupidity, and perfect moral vacuum of growing up in the burbs.
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