Happy birthday, Elayne Riggs!
Just in case you thought we forgot. Go read her columns or visit her blog.
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Happy Landings and Happy Endings, by Elayne Riggs
This past weekend I was in California to attend my brother’s wedding. It was a lovely afternoon; they held the ceremony in the upstairs loft apartment attached to the back of their house, and the reception in their back yard. I still can’t figure out how they fit 120+ people in that space, but they…
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ComicMix Columns and Features for the Week Ending October 26, 2008
Prepping this roundup a bit early this weekend, as I may be in transit from Los Angeles back to New York as it posts. Seasonal decorations just don’t look the same in L.A. Give me actual russets in nature, not just in store windows! On the other hand, I’ve had a nice few days’ break…
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All in Good Fun, by Elayne Riggs
“Palling around with terrorists!” the Republican VP candidate chirped of her running-mate’s opponent to a hungry mob armed with the modern-day equivalent of torches and pitchforks, which would be ignorant shouts of “Kill him!” and signs reading “Obama bin Lyin’”. (Oh, they excel at the disgusting comparative pun, do members of this base. Who could…
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On False Equivalency, by Elayne Riggs
I was but a wee babe in the ‘60s, and I don’t really remember JFK’s assassination, or his brother’s, or King’s. I don’t think we had separate drinking fountains for black and white kids in New Jersey. But I remember racism. Anti-Semitism affected me directly (we were the only Jewish family in a heavily Catholic…
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The Big D, by Elayne Riggs
Back in the spring during my job hunt, I took care of my annual checkup. I’d gotten fed up with my New Rochelle physician who’d kept up a steady drumbeat of “you need to lose weight” as the answer for everything from my heart scare to high blood pressure to allergies (the allergy advice seemed…
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ComicMix Columns and Features for the Week Ending October 5, 2008
Congratulations to ComicMIx’s own Matt Raub for making it through 24 consecutive hours of movie-watching! He’s probably still sleeping as we write this. I’d hate to think of what he’s dreaming about. It could be worse, he could have watched 24 hours of presidential and VP candidate debates. Meanwhile, here’s what our columnists have brought…
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Faith-Based Entertainment, by Elayne Riggs
White rabbits, and L’shana tova! My favorite season has finally arrived, and October is probably the best month in that season. There’s a delicious chill in the air, the leaves are already starting to turn, the Yanks have faded and the Mets have blown it (albeit on the last day this year, instead of crashing…
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When Sums Don’t Add Up, by Elayne Riggs
So I read via Colleen Doran’s blog that the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, has gone bust, at least temporarily. Apparently it, like the Internet router Monday morning at the Riggs Residence, suffered some sort of electrical malfunction. Our router’s fine as of the typing of this column, but the LHC will take a bit…
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Fashionably Late, by Elayne Riggs
Whoever thought that lipstick would make major Silly Season news in the 21st century? Although I have to admit I’d rather hear about it being applied to pit bulls and pigs than human beings, but I’ve never had the best relationship with makeup, accessories and other fribbles, as this past week has reminded me. Every…
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Camera Phone Zen, by Elayne Riggs
After the past two weeks, I think I’m seriously burned out on political chatter for now. And as it’s sort of a “between” time here at the Riggs Residence, with Robin’s DC work all out in shops and his IDW assignment not debuting for two months, I haven’t gotten terribly worked up over comics lately….
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ComicMix Columns & Features for the Week Ending September 7, 2008
It’s back to school time for the kiddies, and the promise of cooler weather at last for those of us who live in those parts of the US that still have seasons! I love September, don’t you? Particularly as it means the end of the political conventions and only two more months left in the…
