Be sure to check out Paul Friedrich’s blog tomorrow, the 16th, as he’ll be participating in an Suburban Xtreme Endurance Event in Raleigh, spending an entire day in a Bojangle’s restaurant. Here’s the skinny from the press release: October 16, 2007 Paul Friedrich and Bryan Pack will attempt to spend an entire 17 1/2 hour …
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Sep 05 2007
The Spitsbergen Airship Museum
I had been scouring the web, looking for some illustrations of the airship Italia I wanted to potentially reference for my work on the final chapter of my forthcoming graphic novel, Midnight Sun, when I stumbled on the website for the Spitsbergen Airship Museum. It looks like, at this point, the museum is in-progress and …
Aug 06 2007
Hello Kitty Used to Punish Thai Cops
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6932801.stm Unfortunately none of the articles on this new development feature a picture of the actual patch that’s being used to punish the officers. From the article: Police chiefs in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules – an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband. The armband is …
Jul 31 2007
Strangely Appropriate Ad
I’ve got nothing against having kids–in fact, I’ve got one on the way myself–but I was reading with some disbelief this article about an Arkansas woman who recently gave birth to her sixteenth child. The article itself was frankly, snarky and meanspirited, but I couldn’t resist checking out the accompanying photo. As you can see, …


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