- @kmellon Wikipedia says it’s a language spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hm. Your version is cooler! #
- @kmellon Cool Tshiluba word – Ilunga, which means “One ready to forgive any abuse the 1st time, to tolerate it a 2nd time, but never a 3rd” #
- @douglasnoble Sadly I think I was. Sigh. #
- @courosa … That sounds about right…
I can’t talk, though – not a PROPER Greek… # - You know, the more I read about Palin, the more I feel like the Republicans don’t actually WANT to win the election… #
- … It’s like that episode of Father Ted, where the Fathers get put forward for Eurovision, because Ireland can’t afford to host it again… #
- … Either that, or they’ve already rigged the election, and they’ve decided that they might as well make some kind of rash statement. #
- I just sent my first ever text using predictive text. I feel a bit dirty. In an ungood way. & also found myself confused by question marks. #
- That Google On Google Chrome comic is beautiful & smart. But why on earth is it in upright format? Horizontal would seem to make more sense. #
- Okay, I seem to have inadvertently designed Elephant Words so that it looks awesome on an iPhone out of the box. A happy accident… #
- @kmellon If an ability to stick a term into the Wikipedia search box makes me a worthwhile human, then so be it… #
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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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