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squamousSo glad it's the weekend. Not sure what I will do with it now that I find myself here but, just glad to be on my own schedule for a couple days. Sort of thinking about going to see a movie sometime. Talked about going to see American Splendor with Jim, but we didn't say when. I wouldn't mind seeing Cabin Fever, actually, or Matchstick Men, maybe. Several people on my friends list said Lost in Translation is good, but I don't see it playing around here yet.
It's rainy here, but at least no badass hurricane is pointed at us. Hopefully that won't get too close to Orlando. Not real sure how stuff like that works.
I am surprised that some people answer 'yes' to the question Should Net surfers be licensed? But, maybe that is how things will be with some 'primary' national-international computer network in the future, and the situation of today will look like the wild Old West does to us now. It still seems stupid and disappointing to me that people are thinking this way.
Unprecedented census of the seas begins. Cool... I am scared they're gonna come back and tell us we've shafted all the fish and will have to modify our eating and sport fishing habits. I do like eating the fish that I can afford, what can I say. It's somehow hard for me to believe that such a census won't result in bad or troubling news. I guess I think there are the two general camps of, "We've fucked up the planet" and "Shut up hippie, everything's fine", and the census is more likely to follow the outlook of the former (plus I can believe we've overfished, despite that the oceans are so unbelievably vast).
More counting. I was looking at this analysis of comic book sales in the U.S. for August 2003, and it finally sunk in what a small number of people actually read comic books these days. The Quimby the Mouse softcover sold only 2,645 copies? Granted that's just in August (the month it was released I guess), and only the softcover edition, and only copies sold through Diamond. But comics soldier on, and Fantagraphics is going to be publishing the complete run of Peanuts in 25 volumes over 13 years, with Seth designing the books.
My two old EnterAct email addresses are going to finally be shut down on the 17th. They date back to '96 and nowadays all they get is a constant flow of ridiculous spam. Occasionally someone who should know better still sends a 'real' message there, so I have to glance at them every now and then. I had some stupid observation I was going to make about these addresses finally going away, but I can't remember what it was now at all. I thought I might feel sad but mainly it will be a relief to not have to skim through all that garbage email anymore.
It's rainy here, but at least no badass hurricane is pointed at us. Hopefully that won't get too close to Orlando. Not real sure how stuff like that works.
I am surprised that some people answer 'yes' to the question Should Net surfers be licensed? But, maybe that is how things will be with some 'primary' national-international computer network in the future, and the situation of today will look like the wild Old West does to us now. It still seems stupid and disappointing to me that people are thinking this way.
Unprecedented census of the seas begins. Cool... I am scared they're gonna come back and tell us we've shafted all the fish and will have to modify our eating and sport fishing habits. I do like eating the fish that I can afford, what can I say. It's somehow hard for me to believe that such a census won't result in bad or troubling news. I guess I think there are the two general camps of, "We've fucked up the planet" and "Shut up hippie, everything's fine", and the census is more likely to follow the outlook of the former (plus I can believe we've overfished, despite that the oceans are so unbelievably vast).
More counting. I was looking at this analysis of comic book sales in the U.S. for August 2003, and it finally sunk in what a small number of people actually read comic books these days. The Quimby the Mouse softcover sold only 2,645 copies? Granted that's just in August (the month it was released I guess), and only the softcover edition, and only copies sold through Diamond. But comics soldier on, and Fantagraphics is going to be publishing the complete run of Peanuts in 25 volumes over 13 years, with Seth designing the books.
My two old EnterAct email addresses are going to finally be shut down on the 17th. They date back to '96 and nowadays all they get is a constant flow of ridiculous spam. Occasionally someone who should know better still sends a 'real' message there, so I have to glance at them every now and then. I had some stupid observation I was going to make about these addresses finally going away, but I can't remember what it was now at all. I thought I might feel sad but mainly it will be a relief to not have to skim through all that garbage email anymore.
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Date: 2003-09-13 10:43 am (UTC)Who is the girl in Matchstick Men? The commercials I've seen don't show her face long enough for me to find out.
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Date: 2003-09-13 12:27 pm (UTC)I'm really curious about Cabin Fever. Maybe a matinee sometime. Have to figure out the showing that will involve the fewest number of rowdy teenagers in the theater....
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Date: 2003-09-13 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-13 06:20 pm (UTC)...2,645?
But... everyone knows about that book. Don't they? It's a modern-culture staple, isn't it? Isn't everyone SUPPOSED to have a copy? I have mine...
I'm gonna cry, I think, and these shall be special tears... tears of puke. How much actual bread could that possibly mean for Chris Ware? What does he EAT?!
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Date: 2003-09-13 06:37 pm (UTC)I do bet the Jimmy Corrigan book sold pretty well though, but the thing is I don't know what that translates to for author earnings, at all. And man the labor he must've had to put into that book... yikes.
Well, I doubt he has a day job, and he may be the type who would be driven to this sort of creative outlet if it paid or not. I dunno. I'll cry too tho, but I don't know how to do the tears of puke. Maybe if someone punched me in the stomach? No....
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Date: 2003-09-13 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-13 07:43 pm (UTC)Here is an exclusive and pointless look at the runner-up (http://scales.cc/lump.jpg).
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Date: 2003-09-13 07:48 pm (UTC)Very nice runner-up. Was ist das?
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Date: 2003-09-13 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-13 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-13 08:11 pm (UTC)I don't remember why I dispensed with having a default originally anyway.
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Date: 2003-09-15 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 09:39 pm (UTC)All cribbed from the tcj.com message board. :)
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Date: 2003-09-16 01:06 pm (UTC)didn't mr. schulz make the sundays in color? or was that added by someone else?
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Date: 2003-09-16 08:17 pm (UTC)The only place I have seen a lot of discussion on these Peanuts reprints is in this thread from the Comics Journal message board:
http://www.tcj.com/messboard/ubb/Forum1/HTML/005734.html
As for the Sunday color strips, they discuss it in the thread some, the different pitfalls and how and why they made the decision. From what I can get out of the thread, it's hard to make things on 'good' paper satisfyingly match the colors used on newsprint, and the colors in the strip were chosen by 'the color separator, the stripper, and the pressman, NOT Schulz'. They do mention Schulz having some approval on color, but that it was pretty inexact.
And: 'The Schulz estate provided us with the materials, and all the Sunday material is provided in black and white. We all agreed that we were going to print them in black and white. Given the absence of syndicate color proofs for many of them, and the wide variance of colors in the printed copies, I'm not even sure a legitimate intended color scheme could be reconstructed if we WANTED to.'
Anyway that thread goes on and on and is full of opinion and information, instead of me parroting and pasting.
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Date: 2003-10-07 11:20 am (UTC)