Noteworthy Referral Flood

Checking my shortstats this evening, I see I’ve been slammed with another referrer spam attack. 111 hits in the space of a few minutes, seemingly coming from a website which did not, in fact, link to mine. Not only did they hit my home page, but they crawled all the various links on it, finding… Continue reading Noteworthy Referral Flood

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The Death(s) of Comics

Comics in America have been on a 70-year sine wave, riding up and down in the public consciousness. Bursts of enormous success and popularity, followed by periods of dwindling sales and degraded quality, only to resurge again in connection with some new innovation or cultural paradigm shift. It’s been a bumpy and fascinating ride. American… Continue reading The Death(s) of Comics

Brian Stood Up Martha

Heading to lunch at a nearby foodcourt, I saw this curious note on the sidewalk. It was weighed down with stones, so obviously it was a deliberate placement and not just a random scrap of paper that found its way there. Someone carefully wrote this note and carefully placed it right at the bottom of… Continue reading Brian Stood Up Martha

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