Category: Twaddle
Happy Heavoween!
A group of us like to get together every so often and watch a film by one of our favourite ’80s straight-to-video action stars: David Heavener! Tonight we’re having a Heavoween party — and I’m bringing the Heavener masks! You can join in by printing out this mask onto some thick, glossy card, strapping it…
Engage!
Lately I’ve been hearing two concepts that disturb me. They’re related. One is that artists in the very exciting 21st century need to “engage”* with their audiences using various Web 2.0 methodologies and mass marketing principles. It’s not enough to make something, you have to Facebook it. You have to expose yourself. The other thing,…
Talented Bastards Who Should Be Shot
Episode one in a series highlighting shitheels with skills far beyond mine. Today: Scott Vandenbosch. Check out his beautiful artwork, and tell him, from me, to go to hell. PS: I changed the look of this blog to something much sexier and Precinct-appropriate. And now that I’m running WordPress 2.8, it has widgets and a…
Comic Book Funny session 2
A reminder that tomorrow’s edition of Comic Book Funny (“comics writing people, live and in person, in a bar where they can drink and hang with you, the consumer”) features Mr John Retallick in discussion with Gerard Ashworth, of “Modern Murder” and “Weird Stress Kittens” infamy. Be there if you can, Gerard’s coming all the…
I like comedy
The other night we saw Matthew Keneally and Josie Long at the Comedy Festival. They were both fun, but Josie Long gets the edge over, being that she’s COMPLETELY ADORABLE, made us laugh ’til it hurt AND she makes her own zines and hands them out to audience members. A friend of mine told me…