April 2011
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NASA Scrubs Royal Wedding due to Electrical Short...
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And Straight on 'til Morning
In retrospect, I’m not sure whether what I wanted to be when I was a kid was an astronaut or a NASA historian who also got to fly in space. I loved the science, but I’m not sure I ever loved it as much as the symbolism. Food for thought.
What I actually grew up to become was an editor, firmly ensconced in metaphorical mission control, sneaking off on evenings and weekends for private...
What Does the Dark Side of the Moon Look Like?
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i love these men: Am I a total wuss or... →
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Does anyone else find Alan Bean’s portraits of himself and Pete Conrad being bros on the moon touching? There’s one I looked at where I felt a cry coming on because Al calls the painting “The Greatest Astronaut” (it’s Pete clicking his heels on the moon). Gosh, why haven’t I…
You guys will hate me for linking to this.
This one makes me go all woobly, every...
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Secret Space Sex Experiment Rumors Denied By... →
No one is asking the important question here, which is clearly WHY THE HELL NOT?
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To Seek a Newer World
Here is the world-building panel from Stumptown Comics Fest 2011, moderated by Evan Dahm, and featuring Carla Speed McNeil, Jenn Manley Lee, Kel McDonald, Larry Marder, and Barry Deutsch.
I dare you listen to this and not immediately want to drop what you’re doing and write.
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Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
Godspeed, Yuri Gagarin.
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But Every Time, I Wake On Earth
Hello. I’ve been sick, and there have been Things afoot. Sometimes, both at once; and apparently neither is interested in taking a recess, at least for for the time being.
I’ll be back to posting more regularly soon. In the meantime, here’s the best sort of trouble:
Dreams of Space documents non-fiction children’s books about space flight from 1945-1975.
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Today I Am
Floating. Everything is muffled, diffuse and distorted like light at the bottom of a pool. Processes meander, sluggish: eyes-brain-fingers-eyes and the blank spaces in between.
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Contingency Plan
Buzz wants to sing, and Neil borrowed his dad’s guitar, but who can play the drums? Michael can!
(Excerpted somewhat diagonally from the outline of a comic script I wrote at openvein’s request; the comic itself exists only hypothetically, and rather tenuously, at that.)
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Cataloguing the Interstices
404 Showcase collects interesting page-not-found pages. Now, aren’t you glad you asked?
(Found via a link from the estimable Rachel Nabors.)
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An exquisitely specific intersection of classic-comics homage and design geekery, Cornered collects recreations of the oft-ignored spot character illustrations from the upper left-hand corners of many comics covers. Some are direct reproductions; others, more oblique.
