- @joshhechinger Dammit! Bad luck, old squire… Is it stuff that’ll be easy to retrace your steps on, or were they hard fought words? #
- @davidbaillie … And ludicrously dark, crazily early. Also, right now, outside, for some reason… is it Independence Day? #
- @harrymylandIV Toy Story 3? Nice… Oof, though, that’s a badly done trick headline. Not like my favourite: “Ike ‘Beats’ Tina To Death”. #
- I need to shave. I was just absent-mindedly pulling on the bits of my beard at the corners of my mouth. They come out creepy far. #
- @harrymylandIV True, true… Fanboys! Hah! They are so lame, I only thank god that I’m not one of them… … Sigh. #
- @steevbishop, Aww, you’re so romantic! Six years is an awfully long time. Are you doing anything nice? #
- @nikkicook Oh, yuck… both gross AND horrific. On the other hand, a really startling image that would make for good comic pages, I reckon. #
- @steevbishop Voice Over work? & oh wow, that’s tomorrow? Awesome! We may see you there… #
- Yeah, I enjoyed having to get up that little bit early so that I could take a tube of dog-poo to the vets. True Story. Being grown-up sucks. #
- @steevbishop Sent you an e-mail about REM tomorrow night – but it occurs to me that you might not notice it till later, without prompting… #
- @antonyjohnston Um… Oh dear, not again… #
- Listening to Billy Bragg videos of performances I hadn’t seen, as I work. Getting me all rushy & excited about seeing him later in the year! #
- How on earth did this happen & I never knowed about it? Billy Bragg/Bill Bailey do “Unisex Chipshop”: http://tinyurl.com/65shk2 #
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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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