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2000AD RIP

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on October 21, 2007
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As if I needed another reason not to pick up 2000AD any time soon:

some character is walking around with his cock out. It’s not even an average sized cock in the style of Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen but a disproportionate one, perhaps even semi-engorged. Around the time of prog 259, subversion meant witty analogies of the Catholic church and contemporary governments without losing sight that this was a comic for children, but prog 1559’s idea of subversion is to get its smelly cock out and wave it in your face. What age group is 2000 AD aimed at these days? I ask because it can’t be under sixteen year olds, because of the cock, and it can’t be adults, because of its proportions. What are we going to see next? Judge Dredd shitting into Judge Anderson’s mouth?

Quite.

From the 2000AD Prog Slog.

Khaaaaaan

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I’ve missed Kaiju Shakedown:

Bollywood’s Salman Khan has hair plugs, washboard abs and a unique knack for getting in trouble. Whether he’s abusing his girlfriend (Aishwarya Rai), poaching an endangered species, or running over homeless people and killing them, it seems that every time you turn around poor Salman is doing something hideous. But for once it looks like he’s the victim, both of his own tackiness and of thin-skinned Catholics. For some bizarre reason, in a recent interview Salman claimed that he was going to paint a version of “The Last Supper” featuring the family of  Amrita Arora, whose sister is married to his brother, in the poses of Jesus and the Twelve Disciples. No one is quite sure why he wants to do this since the two aren’t romantically linked, neither of them are Christian and he’s not a painter, but no matter.

Amusing and irrelevant

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on August 12, 2007
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The guys at Spike Magazine interviewed Tony Wilson a couple of years ago:

I remember going to a Rory Gallagher gig in 1975 at the Free Trade Hall and there was two thousand people and one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine people fucking hated me. And I just thought ‘What the fuck have I done to these fuckin people? What shits they are.’ And then about a year and a half later along came punk and suddenly I’m at The Circus and all these kids are like ‘Hey Tone, thanks for putting Costello on, thanks for putting Iggy Pop on.’ I realised I found my generation and they weren’t my fucking generation. So people shouting abuse has happened for a very long time and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.

You should also check out Spike’s ever fantastic Splinters blog.

Earn a living from your blog and get laid too!

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on July 16, 2007
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Do you subscribe to a lot of blogs that aim to make you a better blogger? A lot of them give up such blog industry secrets as use a bold font to make a word stand out. Or reveal insider blog knowledge such as a catchy headline is better than a non-catchy headline. If you know the kind of blog I’m talking about then please head over to Rob’s:

Blogs as self-perpetuating shit farms?

Personally I’d have left the question mark off.

Christopher Hitchens and The Jetsons

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on June 28, 2007
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I don’t like Christopher Hitchens even when we agree on a subject. The man’s vile, but hey it works for him and I’ve said stuff a lot worse (just not on CNN*).

Occasionally people say to me, Mike, you of all people should get a kick out of the guy which is like telling Cartman he should love ‘Family Guy’. If I found out that Hitchens was programmed by a group of manatees it’d make a lot of sense.

That said I couldn’t resist this interview simply because Tom over at the Amazon Blog gave him a ‘Jetsons’ related question to ponder:

Amazon.com: It’s rare to think of visions of the future that include religion. They don’t go to church in The Jetsons. But yet it remains with us.

Hitchens: We still have a need for the transcendent. I dare say even the Jetsons, if you talked to them earnestly enough about it, would say, look, you’re standing in Cascadia at sunset, and you’re hearing the strains of a Mozart symphony. Are you going to tell me that all life is is a chemical reaction? Surely there’s a bit more to it than that. Of course everybody feels this.

What I like here is not the way that Hitchens takes the curveball in his stride, but that Tom threw it at him in the first place. It’s appallingly easy to ask the obvious questions when interviewing anyone, but finding a hook to keep the interviewee and the audience from tuning out (especially mid-junket) is a good talent to cultivate.**

*I was quoted on CNN’s Inside Politics. They pulled out something I wrote about “norm meat” in reference to US Senator Norm Coleman vs. UK firebrand George Galloway.

** And this is a nice introduction to a new category here on Sizemore - RSS this - simply excerpts from the stuff that flows into my Google Reader that I feel the need to share and comment on. I have no idea if the Amazon Blog is already on a lot of your radars, but I like it a lot as it’s a way into a lot of subjects that I would never, ever go near in a million years. And it feels nothing like a corporate blog1

1Another good talent to cultivate (oh and before we drown in footnotes of footnotes I don’t really like ‘The Jetsons’ either).