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Look at this beautiful little can I found in my grandfather’s studio last month. (It’s 2 1/4″ tall.) Product design sure has evolved over the decades. UPDATE: Thanks to Brett, here’s the current...
View ArticleShout out from Jordan
Hi everybody! (Dr. Nick Rivera voice) Barney (my current co-writer) and I have been holed up for months working against a book deadline, so I missed all of Horrorthon, to my intense regret. But the...
View ArticleMerry Christmas/Asteroid Strikes Earth
Since this is Horrorthon, the “season of giving” means “giving” the gift of ultimate horror (unless there’s something wrong with my logic). Anyway here’s four minutes and forty-six seconds of pure...
View ArticleI’m obsessed!
I can’t get over The Real Tuesday Weld (the London band that may just be one guy, Stephen Coates) and the incredible music and animation that those four words continue to mean. Octopunk introduced me...
View ArticleDiary of the Dead
I don’t really have the goods for the whole Horrorthon routine on this one. In fact, everything about this post is completely half-assed: I haven’t really seen the movie in question; I haven’t read to...
View ArticleCrabs, Robots
I don’t know if other ‘thonners ever follow the Onion News Network (The Onion’s recently-added video component), but it’s really surprisingly good. I’d stayed away from it for a long time, expecting...
View ArticleDraft complete; Jordan emerges from bathysphere
On Monday, we turned in the second draft of our young-adult supernatural thriller 7 Souls (“we” meaning myself and my writing partner Barney). I say “young-adult” because that’s the market, the...
View ArticleHorrorthon “virginity optimization” project (needs a new name)
Obviously I need to come up with a new name; suggestions are welcome. Anyway here’s the idea: I’m really into the movie The Shining (see above picture in which I am literally “really into” the movie)....
View ArticleStar Trek IMAX tickets!
I’ve got two tickets for Star Trek The IMAX Experience, in Manhattan, at the Upper West Side IMAX, 7:45 on May 12th. I’ve got to unload these tickets. Can any New York-based ‘thonners help me out? If...
View ArticleDon Martin Dept.
The drawing above is the very first panel of the very first Mad magazine strip cartoon by Don Martin (1931-2000), “Mad‘s Maddest Artist.” For those of you who are familiar with Mad and with Martin,...
View ArticleZack On My Back
Zack On My Back is a children’s rhyme that my friend David composed for his godson Zack a few years ago and asked me to illustrate. (This was way before octopunk and julie had their own Zack.) Now that...
View ArticleStar Trek visuals/design geek discussion
Another spoiler-filled bunch of comments on the new Star Trek movie — this time, focusing exclusively on questions of visual design. Not surprisingly, it turns out that I have a lot to say about the...
View ArticleStar Trek SPOILER thread — is BACK
I’ve seen the movie and want to talk about it with other h’thonners who’ve seen it. SPOILER WARNING! Don’t even think of clicking on this unless you want to read major plot points immediately given...
View ArticleBoris Artzybasheff’s WWII art
Danish political cartoonist Boris Artzybasheff was heavily influenced by the then-contemporary surrealist movement (from what I see, I’m guessing Di Chirico and Dali). In his collection As I See,...
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