- @lexia That was the problem with Powweb, when I launched Elephant Words. Now they’re not so bad, but I suspect expensive… #
- WHAT? There’s a 24 The Series energy drink? Let me answer my own question… Yes. Yes there is. But there’s no time to talk about that now! #
- @tonymoore Uh, this might seem a personal question from someone you don’t know, but does that help with snoring? #
- @vanessaY Blueberry muffin wonderful? Are they sendable through the postals? You made my tummy grumble, on a 4 hour delay…? #
- This is hilarious: Nuclear Missiles Could Blow Up Like Popcorn: http://tinyurl.com/52776y. #
- No, wait, what was the other one? Terrifying, that’s it. This is terrifying. J points out the shonkiness of the phrase “assessed as safe”. #
- @vanessaY I’ve heard about this sort of thing before: You are withholding muffin! In some cultures, that is considered an act of cruelty
# - @vanessaY Well, yeah, we have bakeries. But they don’t tend to put the “AWESOME!!” (note capitals) in, the way I know you always do…
# - @vanessaY I kinda guessed it was a longshot, anyway. Mmm, Longshot… he was always my favourite off the wall three-fingered alien dude… #
- There’s a kid who at the oldest is about 12-13, & a girl, who in the way of such things has just been hit, ever such a little, by puberty… #
- … But in fact is probably the same age as her much younger looking boy. Anyway, they are in a clinch, just off the main drag here… #
- … It is the most awkward & earnest attempt at adolescent sexuality I have seen – that I didn’t live through myself, that is… #
- Privacy, Competence, Passion, Family Values, Discretion: Fail! Cuteness? MAJOR WIN! Although, y’know, probably not supposed to think so… #
- Ok, after a shaky start, the 2nd season of Torchwood is alright. Took me a while to get round to watching them cos of low expectations… #
- Though I can live without the rebirth of Tosh’s doe-eyed lust for wossname with the ratty eyes… #
- Oh Gok, will you never learn…? #
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Found Objects
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight! Get involved!
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight!
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Peach for godsgirls
Illustration by Victo Ngai for the fiction “Sweet Dreams” by Peter Stamm
“She went to the bathroom, filled the tub, and got undressed. The mirror misted over with condensation, and the smell of pine needles filled the air. She turned off the water, and the apartment suddenly seemed very quiet. Then she heard footsteps, and Simon’s voice through the half-open door. He said, I’ll just go downstairs for the bottle of wine. I thought you’d gone already, said Lara, and she poked her head through the crack, and he kissed her on the lips and tried to barge the door open, but she held it shut. They kissed again. See you soon, said Lara. It was odd, she still felt a little ashamed in front of him.”
This scene is one of my earliest comic memories. It was the first point at which I saw a comic character making a mistake, which meant it was probably the first time I really processed them properly as characters and human.
Spider-man has webbed up a doorway to stop a criminal escaping, but then realises that the criminal is escaping out of the window instead, and in his hurry to catch them he forgets his own webbing.
It seems gloriously ridiculous out of context, but if memory serves it was part of a pretty intense and dramatic story featuring Alex Summers (Havok).
(This was me, by the way.)
Bella Heathcote
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