(spoilers in reviews)
At Comic Book Resources
At Comicon
Nick from Chud reviews it at CNN
Also, Chud has an interview with Ron Pearlman and another with Selma Blair.
If you like your interviews to feature pop-ups of girls in bikinis, there is also another interview with Ron Pearlman at FHM where he dresses up as Hellboy to shoot pool […]

I’m not sure if this has been done in academia before, but it looks like the library at the Rochester Institute of Technology is sponsoring a “one book” reading program, similar to the ones that many communities have participated in.
On the informational page it describes how the library released 100 copies of Leif Enger’s novel […]

Dave Sim’s Onion Interview (via Fanboy Rampage), the interviewer had previously written about the logistics in getting the interview set-up, with a follow-up here

At some point in the semester, I just run out of energy with the whole teaching thing. This is when, more than ever, I’m thankful for coffee. Sometimes I wish I could have a pot of coffee this big. I think that I only have around 4 classes left, and I teach 2 tomorrow. I’m […]

Now I know we are living in the end times. I can tell that the days of the rapture are nigh due to the following signs that could only point to the end of days.
Umm, an anime series about a guy with a girl for a hand. Via Worlds Within Worlds.
Golgo 13 manga expresses Japanese […]

I just started reading The Towers of Trebizond, which is often cited as having one of the best first sentences from a novel:
‘Take my camel, dear,’ said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
I thought about some other favorite first lines (some longer than 1 sentence) […]

Something to do with your discarded microfiche…

Old photo of Nagoya Castle
This is a cool digitial archive of photos that was posted on metafilter several days ago.
Nagoya Castle was destroyed in World War 2 and rebuilt in 1959.

I voted online for ALA today. It was my first time voting for anything for ALA, because in the past I broke out in an allergic rash when looking at the paper ballot. The voting process was very easy, although by the time I finished voting for all the sections that I’m a member of […]

Via Gizmodo, Leigi Matsumoto of Space Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999, etc has designed a real life water taxi. Very cool.
I’ve been slowly going through my site and closing up old comment threads to prevent more spam (I’m sure there is a plugin that would do automatically do this for me), but […]