TV this week: Battlestar Galactica: "Home: Part 1" - I'm to the point that if an episode has Baltar in it, I kind of wish it would end immediately. The character makes me squirm. Fortunately, he's only in one scene. I wonder if the new Boomer will survive very long in that crowd of hostile humans? T...

And so, in memory of Leah, I made a cake. I've done this three years running now, and I hope to manage it every year. Last year I posted some pictures of the finished cake, but didn't go into detail on how I made it, like I did in 2007. This year I feel like a little detail. I'm going to digress for...

Comic Book Legends Revealed #195: Herb Trimpe, Nightwing the Groom, and John Byrne's non-existent penis. No, really. If Magenta isn't a color... then what is it? Bully gets noticed. Help NASA Name a Space Station Node. Obama Sushi. Save Money with Regular Home Maintenance. I wish every house came wi...

If you haven't read the first part, go and do so now. Thanks. Now I've got my books. My central Nine Titles and the mini-series that float around them. What next? Oh yeah, READERS. How does a publishing company attract new readers? The only way is to get books into potential readers' hands and get t...

I agree: "motion comics" are not comics. It's a form of animation. That doesn't make it inferior or anything, it's just not comics. Best story from NYCC: Daniel Dae Kim, better known as Jin off of "Lost", also attending the New York Comic Convention this weekend, in his capacity of being in "Lost," ...

you know, i don't get upset when you suddenly have to go for a few hours or for the day because i don't get to be with you or any bullshit like that. i get upset because i'm stuck. i know we don't have the money right now to go out and do things, even really to just go out to eat. it doesn't bother ...

To my crushing disappointment, Kindle 2.0 doesn't have an SD slot. That's a killer for me. The SD slot was actually one of the things that made me more interested in the Kindle (I can plug in a card with my stuff on it instead of having to sync it up). Now my interest in Kindle 2.0 has dimmed consid...

TV this week: Battlestar Galactica: "Scattered" - Yay! The first episode of season 2! No quick fixes in this episode. I wasn't sure about the flashbacks... when we watched the deleted scenes the flashbacks made MUCH more sense. Smallville: "Bulletproof" - Clark gets into uniform! This one actually h...

What, have you been out Banana Grassing tonight? Thor frightens away burglar. He was out banana grassing. Thor, not the burglar. The MegaPenny Project, helping you visualize very large numbers. My friend Lou Anders has been nominated for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award! Congrats Lou! Wired speculates ...

If you haven't checked it out yet, go to A Distant Soil and check out the comic on-line as well as lots of great advice from Colleen Doran about being your own boss in the comic book industry (although lots of the advice applies widely to home businesses). Catching up: Comic Book Urban Legends Revea...