- @twitties 05510315089602680 2660341068501130488040706 900355270 #
- Not really sure that voting on the Twitties was a valuable use of the end of my lunchbreak, but there you go. Adam & Joe are funny tho, yay! #
- If @zdarsky DOESN’T win something, I’m breaking someone. Mind, his best stuff wasn’t up for voting. Maybe an account-time achievement award? #
- @steevbishop I know, it’s a bugger, isn’t it? All very exciting, though – our own award ceremony, n’everything…! #
- @steevbishop … Such as it is, of course… #
- Hmm. Wondering idly why my Stickleback review at Amazon didn’t show up. Twice. Well, that’s it, frankly. Shan’t try again… Probably. #
- Monkey soundtrack is a 2-play grower – Thank gawrsh, after the tizz I got in. #
- To Asda! Forwhy? For bolognaise, my son! All my horses for pasta sauces! #
- Pigeon roadkill with a tag round its busted ankle is somehow more depressing. #
- Think I just got frantically waved at out of a passing car by an ex housemate of Girl Ones. #
- Curse my inner English, I waved back instinctively. Even tho she made Girl’s life 7 flavours of crap. #
- BTW – Being able to start an argument in an empty room may be an asset in a student… #
- … But in a team or house it is at best boorish & at worst bullying. #
- Is it telling that ubiquitous cameras hasn’t really seen a rise in candid shots? #
- … But posing is on the rise? We had a choice, there, as a species, between warts/all & makeup. #
- @joshhechinger Oh yes, the Gorillaz Monkey, indeed… have you heard it? #
- @barbiehead I always feel a little teensy bit uncomfortable by what The Shield says, which is almost always “violence solves”. Cos I luv it. #
- Oh hell, yes. @beckycloonan has arrived, and so, officially, Twitter has arrived too… Welcome, welcome! #
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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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