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It’s possible that some of you might have heard that Alan Moore (oft-mentioned here) wrote up a survey of 25000 years of porn for Arthur magazine‘s winter 2006 issue. Clearly this is related to, and has grown out of, Moore’s research into the history of pornography as part of his work on Lost Girls. Indeed, if you’ve read any of… Read more →

I admit it, I am too insanely busy at work to generate much useful content this week. However, I do want to quickly share with you some simple facts, that might be helpful in settling a discussion that comes up time and time again. In the wake of the post-holiday sales, I acquired the four volumes of “the Ultimate James… Read more →

The best editorial cartoons are the ones that take an entire position, argument, or notion and distill it down to a single image that captures the essence o the longer and more detailed version exactly. Take this one, for example. I’d say that pretty much captures it. That’s one of the selections at Time’s 2006 Cartoons of the Year list.… Read more →

…and just before the holiday season wraps up, let me sneak in these two links that I totally should have mentioned before Christmas: Venture Aid 2006–the cast of The Venture Brothers, a show for which I am so the target audience, doing… well… here’s what they say about it: “This year, Dr. Venture has pulled together family, friends, and enemies… Read more →

Let’s go out for 2006 on some quotables–things that either amused, or enlightened me in the waning hours of 2006. “Anyone who gets married is a fool. I can understand why a man would get married. Everybody can use a wife. it’s just that nobody needs a husband. If women are fool enough to get married it really doesn’t matter… Read more →

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In a little bit of synchronicity, the random Russell quote that popped up just now in the sidebar was this one: “It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.” –Bertrand Russell That’s topical because… Read more →

I love when artists open up about their process and show you various steps along the way to a finished product. I’m also quite the fan of Charles Vess (indeed, I have one of his early pieces hanging in the sitting room). So, when I see today on Charles’ blog a post with a bunch of photos documenting how he… Read more →

So, essentially, the worse something is for you, the cheaper it has become over the last two decades, while at the same time the things that are most good for you are becoming more and more expensive. The trend is clearly towards a society where only the upper classes can afford a healthy diet. You know, the idea that the… Read more →

Why haven’t I heard of this movie before? What appears to be a blue collar revenge noir, with both Milla and Aisha Tyler? I should have known about this. The only trailer I can find is at Yahoo! Taiwan, but it works fine: Trailer. I am quite pleased to see the return of Hot Milla to the movies. Read more →

Note: Reading this post in Firefox or any other browser that supports the abbr tag will be a much more rewarding experience than reading it in IE. Working in the computer industry you develop a habit of talking in acronyms. I’ve often found it amusing how the acronym over time becomes the proper name for the thing it identifies–that there… Read more →

Naomi Wolf, she of The Beauty Myth, etc, has written a piece, “The Porn Myth“, for New York that sets out her position that the rise of pornography has essentially resulted in a devaluation of sexual experience. For two decades, I have watched young women experience the continual “mission creep” of how pornography—and now Internet pornography—has lowered their sense of… Read more →

Another thing that was making me smile this week is the stick-figure webcomic xkcd. Here’s my favourite one. It’s not often that a three panel strip encapsulates one’s entire philosophy. (That strip should be accessible to everyone, or at least to everyone who enjoyed, or might enjoy, The Big Lebowski.) For the most part, though, the humour here is targetted… Read more →