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When is a Crook a Crook?

When he's Tom DeLay.

Indicted for criminal conspiracy in campaign financing, he's stepping down from his position as Speaker of the House.

I had to re-read the article before I realized it wasn't about the SEC investigation of Bill Frist. He sold his family's shares of HCA, which his family founded, one month before an announcement of weak earnings. So it very well may be insider trading. I wonder if Dr. Frist would get more assistance from the executive branch, if he fell in line with the party on stem cell research.

Anything on Roberts?

Paul Pope Exhibit

A Paul Pope solo exhibit will be at the Diesel Denim Gallery, 68 Greene Street, (Btwn Spring and Broome), New York, NY 10012, (212) 966-5593, through October 30. I got into the city recently but couldn't make it to the gallery before they closed, but I've got a little over a month to try again.

And read Heavy Liquid if you haven't already. Great stuff. I'm not kidding, and if you've read it already read it again, or stare at the pictures for awhile.

Lots of nice artwork at his web site to check out.

And if you go to amazon.com to search for Paul Pope books, use the titles, or else you'll have pages of books by/about Pope John Paul II.

Shirt Update

It's nice when there's evidence that someone read your blog. I mean, besides your wife or the guy who sits next to you at work, who should be minding his own damn business. It's not his company, what the hell does he care what I'm doing on their time.

Indigo Clothing featured my recent charity t-shirt post. Hooray for me. Does anyone really want to read this self-gloating post? (Is there really any other kind of gloating?) Probably not, but how often do we get to express glee? (Actually fairly often, life's pretty good these days.)

Anyhow I found a subscriber as well. That's even more surprising. So thanks to those of you, and to those that read, I'll try to refrain from this type of post in the future.

I really just wanted to say that Threadless seems to be done with the Katrina shirts, you can request a reprint, but I don't know how soon that will happen, so in the meantime you may want to buy one of the others.

Brian Wood (Redux)

If you haven't read Brian Wood before, read Channel Zero.

Then check out Demo (the Becky Cloonan art is gorgeous) the new stuff like DMZ looks interesting too. I also enjoyed Couriers and Cous Cous Express.

My second in a series of lazy posts not formatted because the text was pulled directly from my e-mail. Was this necessary? Maybe not, but people like to make clicky-clicky, without messy pasting of URLs in the northern region of browser windows.

It Takes More Than a T-Shirt…

…but its a start.

I've spotted 3 different online stores with special T-Shirts created for benefitting victims of Hurricane Katrina. Let's hope the same people don't need additional help after Hurricane Rita hits land.

I wonder if/when Pat O'Brien's re-opens in New Orleans, will they still serve Hurricanes?

Without further adieu, I present the shirts:

1.) Threadless – Regrowth: Katrina. Request a reprint if you want one. Threadless will contribute $20 to the Red Cross, for each $10 t-shirt.

2.) RopeADope – Renew Orleans. All Profits will go directly to the Preservation Hall Hurricane Relief Fund. Cost: $20 or $30 depending on which style.

3.) Mule Design (The Feed Store) – Please Help New Orleans. All profits from this shirt will be donated to the Red Cross. $25.

Desolation Jones

Desolation Jones is a English private detective with L.A. privileges and nothing else (the opposite of Butch by the end of Pulp Fiction). He's got to find this colonel his Hitler porn. Yes, Hitler porn. Oh…because it's missing, duh.

Related links:

Warren Ellis interview

Desolation Jones review

Desolation Jones: author's commentary

Other recommended Warren Ellis titles:

Transmetropolitan, Orbiter, Global Frequency (apparently there's a trailer for a tv show out there, but I believe the plug was already pulled on the project.)

Haven't read Fell yet, but it's at home waiting, as is Desolation Jones #3, which won't be waiting much longer.

This item was originally published on Sept. 7, 2005, but I felt like making real links oout of it, so it's got a new date, as if you care.

Moongirl

Moongirl looks promising. Can't wait to see more. That doesn't look right. Can't wait to see more! But that looks to eager. Suffice to say, this post is here so I remember to return in a month or two. Further inspection shows that Phil Knight (yeah him) is behind this venture. So they probably don't need me attracting attention, they should have some funds lying around. I wonder if they use sweatshop labor in the animation studio.

Random Facts About Vin Diesel

I revisited this site that I linked to a while back, mainly because I found a piece of scrap paper where I scribbled down a few facts for submission. I must admit that the site seemed a lot less funny than it once did. Perhaps the additional traffic watered down the quality of submissions. Not to say mine are the best, in fact I thought some were much funnier when I first wrote them then I do today. I'll list them here for the crickets to read.

Vin Diesel speaks fluid dolphin.
Vin Diesel likes that Kelly Clarkson song and is not ashamed to admit it.
Vin Diesel shot 50 Cent all nine times.
Vin Diesel is the reason Stephen Hawking is in that damn wheelchair. Why he talks that way is anybody's guess.
Vin Diesel thinks the president should take yet another vacation.
Vin Diesel fantasizes about sitting in a cubicle making PowerPoint slides all day.
There's never been a Hurricane Vin, and you know who is pretty fucking pissed about it.
Vin Diesel thanks you for your patronage.
Vin Diesel thinks your wasting your time.
What Vin Diesel really wants to do is direct.