July 2011
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Hey, everyone who still follows me here/has...
You may have noticed that I haven’t been blogging here for a while now! Come follow me at my new blog, where I am writing things like this essay about why Taylor Swift is a magnificent supervillain waiting to happen.
May 2011
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Games for late at night →
I have some excellent suggestions for you at my new Tumblr.
(For those of you not around for the whole complicated story of why I’m moving my blogging operation rather than just changing my url—Repulsive Interactions was never my default so it made things confusing. I am in the process of unconfusing things. Come with me and never be confused again!)
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Fun alternatives to the Humblebrag →
I’m giving you gold at my new blog. GOLD.
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On why talking about irony is totally beside the... →
Hey all, thought I’d remind you once again to follow me at my new Tumblr if you haven’t already. I’m writing all kinds of things thereabouts.
April 2011
29 posts
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Outlining some major life goals over at my new... →
Interested parties may want to, I dunno, follow me there?
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Hello sugarplum daffodil ninja genius champs
Hope you enjoyed all those terms of endearment I just threw at you. Thanks to everyone who has already followed me over at I Wanna Be Your Blog, my awesome new Tumblr for awesome people to enjoy. If you’re awesome (and I suspect that you are) you’ll mosey on over there and follow me, as the laws of awesomeness dictate that you must.
For indeed, how else will you get your fix of silly...
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Hey everybody, I'm going to keep hassling you with...
…to follow me over at http://tessastrain.tumblr.com. Cool kids will have already noticed that I have named my new-old blog after a really excellent Stooges song and that I’m already posting about cute boys and random acts of flyness. I would offer you candy or something, but that would be a lie. So reward my honesty by following me over at the new location.
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
I have been aware for some time that my web presence is kind of a mess, particularly on Tumblr. When I first joined the site, it was with the purpose of creating an essay blog about the San Fernando Valley. Which I did. Kind of. And abandoned. Kind of. (Maybe “shelved for future use” is a better way to phrase it.)
Anyway, this is by way of explaining that the whole time I’ve...
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Hey, everyone with great lives!
geoffreyisworking:
Shut up about it for a second.
novazembla asked: Your copy of Lonesome Dove looks like a disreputable and vaguely racist romance novel.
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“We’ll either see neutrinos, or something will be strange with the universe.”
– South Pole Neutrino Detector Comes Up Empty (via outofcontextscience)
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Dubious Ambitions
Geoff: I've always wanted to write the kind of comic that's really great and has a small, but dedicated following, but the sales are poor so it gets canceled after like 20 issues, to the consternation of fans and critics.
Me: That's crazy, because I've always wanted to write or star in a really excellent sitcom that only lasts two seasons because of poor ratings, but gains a cult following after cancellation, and then everyone who watched it when it was on the air is an asshole forever!
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Evidently it's a theme day over here.
And that theme is “piles of money.”
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“If watching John Phillip Law and Marisa Mell fuck on a pile of money...”
– Matt Fraction on Danger: Diabolik!
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Hey, I'm trying
Me: I should work on being less of a misanthrope.
Geoff: Yeah. But people also just need to be better.
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On Artists, Critics, Fans, & Haterz
To be alive today is to be witness to a period of massive transition in the way art is produced and disseminated. I think it’s great. I understand and sympathize with the hysteria that goes along with this (Who decides what is good?! How does anyone get noticed?! Is it dangerous to give everyone a voice?! For the love of god, how do we monetize this?!), but, like most of my generation, I...
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novazembla:
Common People — Pulp
I’m not saying...
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Nerds, chill out.
love-and-radiation:
Everybody gets to be nerds if they wanna be nerds.
I’ve written before on why the whole nerds whining about nerd cred is tedious and totally beside the point. Nerd cred, by their definition, is all about pettiness, exclusion, and impermeable social isolation from the mainstream. So I accept the definition I see in their actions, if not their rhetoric:
A nerd is...
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“My brain hurts from reading too many comics.”
– The Young Gary Busey Chronicles.:
Things I don’t quite remember aren’t real after a day spent reading comics: time travel, repulsor tech, anti-mutant bigotry, the Gotham City PD , the survival of print journalism, no heist-free gala fundraisers
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I need to listen to ABBA right now.
love-and-radiation:
And I need you to not judge me.
I will quote Geoff, who once said, “Either you love ABBA or you just haven’t admitted it yet.”
March 2011
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“Welcome to Sounding Like A Pretentious Fuckhead 101, right? Well, damn straight...”
– Joe Casey (via geoffreyisworking)
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Smile or Die →
Christine just sent me this animated video in response to my earlier post. It beautifully illustrates what I was talking about, re: the horrifying implications of the cult of positivity.
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“Ocean: We in O-Force are all so proud and honored to be given the chance to make...”
– From Peter Milligan & Mike Allred’s X-Statix #3
I find the cult of positivity in America really disturbing for a lot of reasons. Firstly because it defines positivity as 100% optimism at all times, but also because it sees positivity as tantamount to virtue and goodness, making the...
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“The semicolon is the most human of punctuation marks, precisely because it’s...”
– Jonathan Evans, in an email to Lisa Lutz (via davidmanque)
I blame the popular sentiment against semicolons, like I blame so many other contemporary literary ills, on Ernest Hemingway. Who would have thought that so many generations of writers would balk at any kind of stylistic evolution away from...
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Tattoos I Would So Get
“Salve Nauta” across my knuckles: That’s “Hello, Sailor” in Latin. How many times have you wanted to make a Mae West-esque pass at a classics scholar and not known how best to break the ice? All the time, right? Now you can just punch ‘em in the face with both fists! Then they’ll totally ask for your number!
Elbow-length, black gloves: For a touch of...
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There is a law of physics...
…or metaphysics, or Olivia Newton John’s “Let’s Get Physical,” or whatever, but it’s a LAW that states:
When you hear the opening bars of Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out,” your mind will reflexively make an instantaneous decision about whether you want it to actually be “I’m Coming Out” or just the sample that leads into...
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Things I have said indignantly in the past
“You don’t know shit about Spicy Rice.”
“Who does that jerk think he is? Telling me, me, about Batman!”
“So maybe don’t go around trying to correct people’s grammar at parties, guy.”
Things I am likely to say indignantly in the future
“What do you mean the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack...