Jeff Lester, Party Person

Religion and Tom Waits I don’t talk about religion, or spirituality, often in public. I’ve done it once before here getting into family history and all but that’s it. In that post, as an aside really, I…

Happy 76th Birthday to Tom Waits. I wrote a bit about my fave song of his, and why, a while back.

Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

This series has single-handedly redeemed the entire internet. Thank you.

An extra hour of sleep in the morning can either be the greatest gift the universe can give you or the most cunning curse

Guy who brings their own Arrow Video releases into the Criterion Closet to talk about those instead

Every shitty Mark Millar character of the last ten years banging at the gates

Imagine looking at America’s child mortality rates and going, “oh yeah, those are piker numbers. We can double, triple those numbers easily.”

I named my fists Rosencrantz and Guildenstern because nobody can tell them apart, and whether they mean to or not, they’re trying to get me killed.

I named my fists Truth and Justice because, sadly, that's the American way

A screenshot of the Hoopla app showing comics available as of a few weeks ago, including the issue of Savage Sword of Conan with a spectacular Liam Sharp Conan story.

Hey, your Hoopla borrows roll over tomorrow so why not grab some comics tonight?

If nothing else grab this issue of Savage Sword—Liam Sharp does a jaw-droppingly good Conan story that totally recaptured the heyday of the old black and white mag. Soooooo good.

YouTube video by Cinthia Lin The Place China Keeps Hidden

As a dude who is irrationally obsessed with Kowloon City, it was amazing to see this real life sequel. This was a really great and informative watch:
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Wow, to think I was once so young i was excited to read John Byrne comics.

Even wilder, these books got the sauce! Byrne’s arrogant “here’s a stick of gum, lemme show you how to chew it” approach means he’s gonna show you what a good Phantom Stranger story is…and it’s gonna be entertaining!

I don’t know about the insides, but that cover is more than enough top bionic adventure for me!

If you eat a turdurken do you, in fact, become the outer layer of a huturdurken?

This is the big one for me. If you absolutely cannot afford the book, GO TO THE LIBRARY. You still get it for free, but in a way that still *matters* to publishers. The libraries are one of the few socialist projects we still have. USE THEM.

Love and Rockets comic book page drawn by Jaime Hernandez, full of expressive ladies doing expressive things

Any random Jaime Hernandez page is a masterclass in composition and comics storytelling. I don't know that he's ever drawn a just-okay panel, ever.

4 photos of Kate Bush in a lacy bat costume in various poses.

You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.

Finding out Marvel is kickstarting one of their books is like seeing an HMO run a gofundme.

Also, I’m not sure if Politico thinks of insincerity as something to be overcome, as much as there’s a post-Trumpian awareness that it doesn’t need to be overcome…if one can craft a compelling persona that is open about its insincerity.

I also think the other big hook of the article is that Newsom uniquely gets social media in a way that makes him an ideal candidate for the Dems…but that hook has to ignore, for example, AOC’s superior and earlier facility with it.

This serves those in power, and the artistic people who also aspire to privilege, and perhaps, worst of al,l this serves us.

For even if we give the writer the most savage of online roastings, the most we've done is burn only what's been offered as sacrifice.

And so nothing changes. 3/3

The subjects are given benefits of the doubt they would not have otherwise earned.

And we as readers—by being emotionally moved on a topic we were otherwise decided one—are given leave to do nothing, to neither judge nor condemn the mechanisms of power. 2/3 (sorry!)

Ok, the Nuzzi thing is...actually pretty important?

It codifies a lot of how our media has worked for the last few decades--which is to say, in an exculpatory role. If the writer affects the correct tone, they are exculpated for their entwinement with the mechanisms of power. 1/2

Congratulations!

(Someone may have cut crucial corners on the ALT text, tho)

Trump: I know nothing about that. It’s really what did he mean when he spent all his time with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers? Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years. But he also saw strength because I was president, so he dictated memos to himself. Give me a break. You’ve got to find out what he knew with respect to Bill Clinton… all those people he knew, including JPMorgan Chase.

Trump Speech is endlessly fascinating to me — when you hear audio of him you can sort of parse what he's saying, follow along with his cadence, but when you transcribe the actual words it's this unintelligible goop. It's like trying to drink the cold Pepsi syrup out of the back of the machine

Last night’s edible pretty much kicked me through a wall and I’m thankful for it.

“Advertising is the graffiti of the rich” is gonna stay with me

A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan) screaming in pain in front of two horrified security guards. Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

internet is crazy

John Milius’ Barton Fink might be largely the same!