“I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself” Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon Feeling very Hemingway-esque because I am sitting here in front of the computer sipping a glass of merlot and smoking a cigarette while I write – although the truth, according to the website Food Republic, is that…
“Don’t you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don’t even have to be true!” – Dave Barry Some thoughts this week reflecting upon my fellow ComicMix columnists’ opinions… Last week Martha Thomases felt compelled…
“Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a Lensman her lens. Couldn’t have passed for Normal if he’d wanted to.” The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz Sometimes the universe borrows from [[[Moonstruck]]], giving you just the slap you need so that you “Snap out of it!”…
Dorothy: What kind of a horse is that? I’ve never seen a horse like that before! Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: And never will again, I fancy. There’s only one of him and he’s it. He’s the Horse of a Different Color you’ve heard tell about. —The Wizard of Oz, 1939 I love to…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 The other day two grandmothers, Mindy and Lynette, were visiting their beloved grandchild Meyer Manual. After playing and cooing and aahing and watching Alixandra attempt to feed him mashed bananas, 99% of which ended up…
I had a good conversation with Mr. Gold on the phone yesterday, as in Mike, editor and columnist here at ComicMix and a columnist over at Michael Davis World, as in Michael Davis who is also a columnist on this site. Did I ever mention that the comics industry can be a bit professionally incestuous?…
I miss bookstores. Being able to walk up and down the aisles, pulling out a title that sounds intriguing, perusing the dust jacket flap, sometimes sitting down on the floor and reading the first couple of pages…just killing a couple of hours lost in a bibliophile’s heaven. Okay, bookstores aren’t entirely gone, but they are,…
“I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.” —Craig Ferguson We’re not the only ones obsessed with—ahem—[[[The Walking Dead]]]. Everybody seems to be in on it. Here’s a very, very, short list of zombie movies: [[[28 Days]]] [[[28 Days Later]]] [[[Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies]]] [[[Night of the Living Dead]]] [[[The Evil…
“Whooooooooo are you? Who? Who? Who, Who?” WHO ARE YOU Composed by Pete Townsend The Who, 1978 Picking up from last week— All our super-powered mythic creations, whether hero or villain, man or woman, are avatars—whether we realize it or not. Superman, of course, is the Big Kahuna avatar of comics. Every corrupt politician that…
“Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness then I send forth Myself.” —Lord Krishna to Prince Arjuna,[[[The Bhagavadgita]]] (Song of God) Sanskrit in origin, and a central principle of the Hindu religion, an avatar is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “the incarnation of a deity in human or animal form…
This is a column for all you “I want to be a writer” writers out there. The XXII Olympics officially opened on Friday, February 8th, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Thirty years ago the XIV Olympics took place in Sarajevo in what was Yugoslavia and is now Bosnia-Herzegovina, although the region is usually just called Bosnia….
As I write this, the Super Bowl XLVIII kick-off is still 36 minutes away. I’ve been thinking a lot about football the last couple of weeks. It’s a showdown between the best offensive team, the AFC Denver Broncos, led by Peyton Manning, who has had what may be the greatest quarterback season ever while breaking…
