Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 4:57PM This comes courtesy of my friend and collaborator Doug Hills, because I needed a drawn profile pic for something. He says he doesn't think it looks like manga much at all. It might be true, because I don't see a single speed line. I might just be manga illiterate.
Either way, I dig it. My wife says it looks like a sleazy version of me.
Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 1:32PM 
The time has come. It's been a real fun year and a half, and it's more time than most people get, but I can't support myself any longer by just doing iFanboy.com. The fact is, the whole time has been amazing, and we've grown exponentially since I quit my job in February of last year. But the economic downturn has made it hard to produce enough revenue to make enough money to live on, at least not for two people. But thanks to the members, Conor's still at the wheel, making sure we can keep the best comic site on the web going strong.
Before I go on though, I want to make this clear. The site's not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. I'm still on the shows. I'm still writing.
But, I need a job. I have to make more money. I have to have insurance. I also didn't want to keep it a secret. For one thing, it's too hard to pretend I'm not looking for work. Also, it can't hurt to have a whole bunch of people looking out for something you might not have known about.
If you're asking what I'm looking for, I'm not entirely sure. I'd love to say in comics, but there aren't a hell of a lot of jobs available at the moment. I could maybe go back to TV production, but I don't really want to. After working at home for the last 18 months, I don't think I'd want to do something I already decided to stop doing 5 years ago.
So there it is. Thanks everyone. As you were.
Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 11:02PM Did this over on the facebook, so I thought, why not throw it up here too?
1. The Who minus Keith Moon (twice)
2. Paul McCartney
3. Primus
4. Tori Amos
5. Dinosaur Jr.
6. Arrested Development
7. Digable Planets
8. Live
9. Sponge
10. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
11. De La Soul
12. Fishbone
13. Goody Mob
14. Bad Religion
16. G Love and Special Sauce
17. The Black Crowes (but I left after the first chord)
18. Blues Traveler
19. Ben Folds Five (3 times, one solo)
20. Death Cab for Cutie (twice)
21. Mates of State (twice)
22. Spoon
23. Pearl Jam (twice)
24. Handsome Boy Modeling School
25. Kid Koala
26. The Shins (twice)
27. Vetiver
28. Radiohead (3 times)
29. BB King
30. Buddy Guy
31. Elvis Costello (twice)
32. Beck
33. Ben Lee (I think)
34. Supergrass
35. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
36. Cake
37. The Decemberists (twice)
38. Joe Satriani
39. Phantom Planet
40. Venus Hum
41. Meredith Brooks (sang "I'm a bitch" played with the Blue Man Group)
42. The Divine Comedy
43. Sonic Youth
44. Tim Robbins (he played with Pearl Jam for a song. It counts!)
45. Go Betty Go (played at a bowling alley in LA with them, when I was in a band)
46. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan (came out and played with John Entwhistle.)
47. John MF'ing Williams!
48. Robin Hitchcock and the Venus 3
49. Delta Spirit
50. Love Spit Love
Sort of petered out there at the end too, putting in some opening acts of dubious note. But I made it! Not too bad.
Friday, August 7, 2009 at 6:47PM George loves - LOVES - to wrestle and play. If I got down on the floor with him, he'd keep going for days, and my hands and forearms would be ripped to shreds. Also, experience the magestic and magical sound of the bulldog snort and snuffle.
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 12:25AM 
I posted a quick piece on the passing of author Frank McCourt at Murmur.com.
an excerpt:
I first read Angela's Ashes, McCourt's first book, published at age 66, when I was getting out of college. My grandmother gave it to me, suggesting that it was something I needed to read, and boy was she right. I've always been fascinated with Ireland, the land of my particular heritage, and the inherent skill with language and humor its most talented writers possessed. I was instantly drawn into McCourt's tale of growing up poor in Limerick, Ireland in extreme poverty, and a drunken absentee father. I could certainly relate to the latter part.
The thing is, every time I see references to Angela's Ashes, I hear about "grim" "sullen" tales of a terrible life. But that's not the book I remember reading. Angela's Ashes is a remarkably funny book in my mind, as are McCourt's other books, 'Tis and Teacher Man. In Angela, McCourt tells most of the story through his own eyes as a child. In that sense, the child has no context for what is horrible around him, and very often, the writing struck me as totally honest, but very funny. Through that sense of humor, we were able to understand what the life was really like for a kid living through what he lived through. The 1999 film adaptation by director, Alan Parker, lacked all of that humor, because it wasn't told straight from the voice of the child who lived through it. But the amazing sparse wording of the book, written in the voice McCourt spoke brought you right there.