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Outside the Government: A Day in the Death
It's February 27th, 2008. Duffy are at number one with "Mercy," with Kylie Minogue, Adele, Nickelback, Rihanna, and Kelly Rowland also charting. In news, the British Government officially nationalizes...
View ArticleThe Post Wikipedia Doesn't Want You To See
Due to my revelation in this post that Charles Ainsworth, an employee of the US Military (aka Chelsea Manning's jailers) has been editing Wikipedia under the username Cla68 to argue that transgender...
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Dangerous, Mysterious, Hyperscientific (The Last War in Albion Part 17: The...
This is the final of Chapter Three of The Last War in Albion, covering Alan Moore's work for Sounds Magazine (Roscoe Moscow and The Stars My Degradation) and his comic strip Maxwell the Magic Cat. An...
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Outside the Government: Something Borrowed
It’s March 5th, 2008. Duffy is at number one with “Mercy.” H Two O, OneRepublic, Basshunter, and David Jordan also chart, along with several more… notable artists. In news, former Thai Prime Minister...
View ArticleFuller Statement on my Wikipedia Banning
EDIT 11/11: I asked the arbitration committee why the bit of policy that says ""if individuals have identified themselves without redacting or having it oversighted, such information can be used for...
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Outside the Government: From Out of the Rain
It’s March 12th, 2008. Duffy are at number one with “Mercy,” with Taio Cruz, Alphabeat, Westlife, and Flo Rida also charting. In news, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer gets wrapped up in a prostitution...
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The Five Wonder Woman Comics You Must Own
As promotion for my forthcoming book on They Might Be Giants' Flood (out this Thursday!), my co-author and I are guest-editing the 33 1/3 blog at 333sound.com this week. That's right, you get double...
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Outside the Government: Adrift
All this week my coauthor Alex Reed and I are guest-editing 33 1/3's blog in celebration of our book on They Might Be Giants' Flood coming out on Thursday. The latest post is my short essay "How to be...
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A Fluctuation in the Visual Purple (The Last War in Albion Part 18: Steve...
This is the first of seven parts of Chapter Four of The Last War in Albion, covering Alan Moore's work on Doctor Who and Star Wars from 1980-81. An ebook omnibus of the entire chapter, sans images, is...
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Outside the Government: Fragments
The week of my coauthor Alex Reed and I guest-editing 33 1/3's blog in promotion of our book on They Might Be Giants's Flood continues with Alex counting down the ten best TMBG non-album tracks. You...
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A Giant Book Launch
Right, lots to cover here. First of all, the final part of Alex and my guest-editing 33 1/3's blog is up, with me running over some videos of and about They Might Be Giants.As this suggests, our book...
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Outside the Government: Exit Wounds
You did notice the giveaway of two free copies of my new book on Flood that I started on Saturday, yes? You should go take guesses and win my books.It’s April 4th, 2008. My long nightmare of being too...
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Flood Extras
Another cheery reminder that S. Alexander Reed and I have just had our book on They Might Be Giants'Flood released by Bloomsbury Academic. You should buy it! On top of that, you should review it. No,...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 72 (Being Human)
Well, look, the pilot was in 2008. So we’re only a little ahead of ourselves. And it’s worth exploring now simply because Being Human is a show that reveals a lot about what television became in the...
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1/2.*/"£5/8£-&'(?)WEX*zz (The Last War in Albion Part 19: Abslom Daak,...
This is the second of seven parts of Chapter Four of The Last War in Albion, covering Alan Moore's work onDoctor Who and Star Wars from 1980-81. An ebook omnibus of all seven parts, sans images, is...
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Guest Post: Moths Ate My Girls Aloud CD
Abigail Brady will get the sole power to decide if you ever get to see me play Soldeed. She is also responsible for starting the entire Chelsea Manning feud on Wikipedia by moving the article to its...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (November 23rd, 2013)
Let's talk about Jack Graham, writer of Shabogan Grafitti, who has just wrapped up his 50 post countdown of Marxist readings of Doctor Who scenes across the years. Cheeky, passionate, insightful, and...
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The Size of the Mouth and the Size of the Brain (Partners in Crime)
DEMIURGE! (This has to be the most obscure captionI've done in ages.)It’s April 5th, 2008. As you might imagine, very little has changed. We’ve just calmly plowed from the end of Torchwood Season Two...
View ArticleBelieving the Victim
A week or two ago there was a bit of a to-do within American comics fandom when Brian Wood, a prominent writer often praised for his commitment to feminism and his well-written female characters, was...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Coffee (LOST)
“Artists should not be trusted. If an artist is not deceitfulevery so often in the cause of his art, then he is a poor artist.” -- Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher LevLOST was quite possibly one of the...
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