August 2006 archive

Seth’s Nostalgia for the 20s and 30s

The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History I’ve been slowly making my way through this nice archive of audio and video interview and feature clips of Canadian cartoonists.  I listened most recently to the one about “Seth,” a cartoonist who really wears his obsession with the 1920s and 30s on his sleeve.  The voiceover referred …

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Ed Bumgardner Must Get Stoned

Dylan concert hits bad notes First off, some clarification: Ed Bumgardner is a longtime Winston-Salem music critic, who’s currently writing for the Winston-Salem Journal’s weekly free arts and entertainment supplement, Relish. By “stoned” in the title of this post, I don’t mean stoned as in “under the effects of marijuana,” but rather stoned as in …

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Coolest Mini-golf Ever

The Somerville Open Mini-Golf 2006

Playing Wookie

From Yahoo via Bryan Fordham: Chewbacca of Star Wars fame throws out the ceremonial first pitch as Wicket the Ewok looks on before a baseball game between the Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

Dame Darcy’s The Illustrated Jane Eyre

Dame Darcy’s The Illustrated Jane Eyre Check out these beautiful preview pages from the forthcoming Penguin Books classics series version of Jane Eyre. Darcy on the feature film she’s apparently making version of her graphic novel Gasoline: It’s an environmental movie about technology working with nature and it stars a family of witches in a …

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