http://nixsight.net the high road to nowhere Sat, 26 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nixsight.net/2012/05/2012-05-26-digital-breadcrumbs/ http://nixsight.net/2012/05/2012-05-26-digital-breadcrumbs/#comments Sat, 26 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Nicolas Papaconstantinou http://nixsight.net/2012/05/2012-05-26-digital-breadcrumbs/

@Sulman That was all on @JamesMOMB. @JaneMOMB's pretty young, I try not to sexualise her. #

@MhairiMcF Oh, YAY! Really like that cover. It really pops! Is there anything in it for a grudging & confused misogynist? #

@MhairiMcF (Asking for a friend.) #

@LouMarieH If you locked yourself in a freezer PROPERLY, it'll stay colder. #

@MhairiMcF HUZZAH! So it will validate all of my fir – I mean HIS firmly held beliefs! BRILLIANT! I'll take seven! I MEAN HE WILL. #

@MhairiMcF (Seriously, though, bloody well done. The writing I get. The work ethic to finish something I just can't fathom out.) #

@MhairiMcF (I wrote something like 180 short stories, some not that short, over a couple of years at Elephant Words. But a novel? GAH NO!) #

@MhairiMcF I think that sounds absolutely right. Not a slave to three acts, but that structure works for writers as well as audiences… #

@MhairiMcF …Think my problem is second I know the story well enough in my head, I get too nervous of fucking it up. Shorts bypass that. #

@XanderBennett Obvs don't say anything, but is S1 a self-contained animal? We liked pilot but it was already cancelled when we watched it. #

MOMBThings 1/3: #137 went up last night – http://t.co/RwJZMhtT – it was great fun to record, & there are two great contributions & that. RT! #

MOMBThings 2/3: #MOMBcast 137's outro is from @akirathedon's Unkillable Thunderchrist. If you like, buy it here: http://t.co/j64XayVn . RT! #

MOMBThings 3/3: YOu can win the excellent new OGN from @antonyjohnston & Sam Hart, The Coldest City, here: http://t.co/YhDDX4kp (PLEASE RT!) #

@XanderBennett Ooh, we may commit to it a bit deeper, than. Excellent, because that pilot was beautiful. #

Link: http://t.co/yXm91WUN #

Between customers dressed for summer & the cute barista with the tattoos, central Southampton Starbucks is blowing my mind. #

@Chris_TOMP It's like you don't understand problem solving at all. Haven't you heard the phrase "fight fire with fire"? It's the best way! #

@Chris_TOMP …I was going to make a smart joke about that but am now snarled up on where that phrase can possibly have come from. #

@Chris_TOMP …I mean, in very specific circumstances you can do a controlled burn to stop a fire, but that's fairly specific. #

@AndrewTunney Not ALL comics are too expensive. But there's no good reason I can think of for 3 fast-food comics to cost more than $10… #

@AndrewTunney GOD I'M BORING ABOUT PRICE. #

@antonyjohnston Don't know if you registered it/have already mentioned it, but did you see we're running a competition to win a copy of TCC? #

@antonyjohnston (Totally by accident – I preordered two. Rather than return one, figured we could give it to someone else!) #

@sarahditum Is that fiction about the sort of people who go on The Apprentice? I quite LITERARY can't stand those guys. #

@AndrewTunney Agree people need to get paid, but suspect cynicism – it feels to me – & short-termism about the discrepancies across line… #

@AndrewTunney The BEST mainstream superhero book at the moment is Amazing Spider-Man. But it's $3.99, when similar size books only $2.99… #

@AndrewTunney …It SEEMS to make sense for Marvel/DC to up prices on sure-sellers. But they aren't using them to subsidise fringe books… #

@AndrewTunney …& they could potentially be selling FAR MORE at the same price point as their other books. #

@AndrewTunney I think it can work, but it's never going to spread beyond core audience without being priced for disposability. #

@antonyjohnston My idiocy is going to be some lucky person's gain, basically! #

@DanSlott I admit to being pulled out of it by the special, but that latest issue of ASM is just SUPERB, as always. #

@DanSlott I'd point you at this week's #MOMBcast for the review, but basically ANY week ASM is out it gets a review there. Sad, really. #

I am still a man, & as such am appreciating the whole breast thing, but very happy to see real focus on legs this summer so far. #

As this tech becomes more common, we really need to address the culture of using "Hacked" when we mean "Exploited poor user practice"… #

…If ex or unscrupulous friend betrays your trust by using user credentials you left available to them in a bad way, that isn't hacking. #

@DanSlott Hah, got it on pretty good authority that the guy who's been running the Bat universe for several years thinks BATMAN is gay. #

@Sulman LOL, no. Just heard it used that way a few times recently. "My FB account got hacked by my cunt ex". He broke into the mainframe? #

@Sulman …Did he use a backdoor? *smirk* Was there reversing of the polarities? He must be a regular Ice Bandit. #

@Sulman …A colleague's phone got hacked. Because they asked to borrow it ON HIS STAG DAY, & he gave it to them. #

@Sulman …They "hacked" it by signing him up to some sexchat thing. Or, some might say, they just used it in a way he didn't expect. #

BY the way: you would not believe how much @Maxy_Barnard talked about breasts in #MOMBCast 137! #

@jpalmiotti Yeah, alright, hard sell worked! (Are they scarce? I preordered from http://t.co/SzbLqW3y) #

@uponnothing Why would you bring comics into it? #

@jpalmiotti Damn, it's lucky I saw your tweet… Monolith was fucking ace, so I WANTS it. #

Finally got time to watch the Aziz Ansari $5 hour. It's funny as fuck. More nuance than you'd expect from his hectic persona. #

@TinyMaster As good as owt else, pet. Is what Sean Bean might say if he was playing me. #

Manic Pixie Dream Girl is useful trope for discussion of media, but it isn't result of misogyny, it's result of lazy demo-driven Hollywood. #

Want driven, interesting female character with personality & agency? Got that over here. But good luck finding nuanced male for her to fuck. #

Industries either make stuff for primarily female audience, or primarily male one. HUGE probs with doing that instead of telling stories… #

…but don't look for/find malice or agenda where more often than not there's just fucking incompetence & numbers-chasing. #

The neighbours are having another obnoxiously loud cunt party. It is making me irritable. Sorry! #

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@jamiesmart If I were gay, I suspect the ballyhoo around Northstar getting married would just annoy me as tokenist & hyperbole. #

@jamiesmart …but that's probably because it is. #

@MhairiMcF Are you more of a long-form comic? #

@MhairiMcF Oh god this is awkward, didn't you know I lost the Parky gig? I thought it was common knowledge. "Creative differences". #

How the fuck didn't I know about this?: http://t.co/YssTODC3 #Community #cougartown #

@ryanklindsay Australian perv monkey. #

@ryanklindsay I don't have to assume it, I paid for him to be there. #

#MOMBcast prep 1/4: We would love you to contribute to the show! 2-5 mins audio on anything comics to MOMBcast@gmail.com (Please RT!) #

#MOMBcast prep 2/4: MOMBquestion: What do you think the most successful comic to animation adaptation is? Answer at usual places! (Plis RT!) #

#MOMBcast prep 3/4: Any questions or points you've got for us always gratefully received. Usual places incl. MOMBcast@gmail.com! #

#MOMBcast prep 4/4: We've got a copy of @antonyjohnston/Hart's brand new HC Coldest City that you can win. Details in tonight's show! (RT!) #

MOMB elsewhere, including where to answer MOMBquestions: FB: http://t.co/I5oMEUrF / G+: http://t.co/MhJCc30s / Tumblr: http://t.co/5nGzNENo #

@JamesMOMB I FUCKING KNOW, RIGHT? #

@JamesMOMB YES! MY THROAT HURTS! #

@bevismusson (Yeah, I think that's my thing at the moment: Comic price, & the hype-cycle. The comic version of 3d. Sigh.) @jamiesmart #

@bevismusson Exactly. Short term business gains at possible expense of long-term real representation & quality. Sigh. Like 3d. @jamiesmart #

@bevismusson I don't mean gay people are like 3d, you understand. Although, I mean, they ARE IN 3d. 4d. OH HOW CONFUSING. @jamiesmart #

@ryanklindsay Wait, what? #

@ryanklindsay No way I could go for it, but I'd like to see the job spec/salary, out of curiosity. #

@ryanklindsay No pro experience of being an editor, but it's a job I reckon I'd be pretty good at. Great work ethic for other people's work. #

@ryanklindsay Is it at http://t.co/u5yQQSo5? #

@pencil_monkey Course! #

@ryanklindsay (Heh, I totally missed that.) #

@bevismusson But of course, he wouldn't do that, because showing off like that isn't sexy. HE IS SO SEXY. @McKelvie #

@bevismusson (Have it on good authority that the Voice prod actually has to make him LESS soulful & sincere in the edit.) @McKelvie #

@bevismusson I think it's a thing about people born on June 7th. Him, me & Prince. 2 SEXY 4 LIFE @McKelvie #

@sarcastathon ME NEITHER WHAT IS IT WE'RE LITERALLY NOT DOING? #

@scanters We're ALL above Angry Birds, and yet we still play. #

@sarcastathon Oh god, no, that sounds awful. Sorry, you're on your own. I'LL BE OVER HERE LITERALLY DOING THINGS THAT AREN'T THAT. #

@sarcastathon I would drop everything and come help you if I could. (Well, I mean, that's easy to say, isn't it?) #

@kierongillen Fucking hell, how'd that even happen? #

@kierongillen It's ouchy! Did it clean off? #

@emslj Funny how easy that is, isn't it? Instantly better. #

@kierongillen Hah, fair play, then. That almost beats our Game Of Thrones for random board game spoilage… #

@kierongillen …The 2ND time we played it, the younger of our two dogs scooped in & swallowed one of Baratheon ships. NEVER GOT IT BACK. #

@kierongillen (I spent the first week of 2012 following behind her with a garden sieve thing to try & retrieve it.) #

@kierongillen That's pretty bad. At least we're only missing a piece. But I'm OCD enough that it sticks with me. #

@kierongillen (That weird Game Of Thrones thing where the board doesn't quite sit right sometimes drives me mental.) #

@kierongillen Wonder if there's a business plan in breaking down board games & selling parts to people like us who need them. #

@emslj For damn sure. Just knowing that someone isn't as much of an asshole as they could be really helps. #

http://t.co/w4KIvwrr – Touch the hair, dude. #

@itsthatlady Baffles me how perpetually UNready bars/local amenities ALWAYS ARE for such things. It's like they don't have people in charge. #

@itsthatlady (When of course most of them have two or three more people in charge of exactly those things.) #

@itsthatlady We had a lovely time the Friday night, just near the station – also eating in town on the Saturday. Think I mean casino bar… #

@itsthatlady Although it's difficult one to solve – where the convention (AND the party) are are the BEST venues… really good… #

@itsthatlady …but any problems we had related to fact that the development around them has atrophied a bit. #

@itsthatlady I like it a lot. Bars (espec HOTEL bars) never know how to deal with comic people. Leeds is dandy. All big compared to Soton… #

@itsthatlady …I just got pretty nerve-wracked running out of cash on Sunday, & realising there was none available in walking distance. #

@itsthatlady There's a place like where the con is in most cities now, to be fair. They just aren't as vast down south… #

@itsthatlady …Where developers were allowed to keep building even as it should be obvious there was no demand. #

@bevismusson God you parents make me SICK. All adorable & yuck. @JamesMOMB @davidmonteith (Bet I'm worse when it happens.) #

The guest list for Thought Bubble is making me feel a little sick & anxious. (Thobubs people, you should know that that's a good thing.) #

@Maxy_Barnard Hah, luckily I was spending some time with my lovely wife, before I started editing, so yeah! #

@Maxy_Barnard God I love you, Max. #

@Maxy_Barnard #

@Maxy_Barnard Also, #

@The_NightPorter You make it sound as if the two things aren't connected. Always thought Northstar was a cynical move on Marvel's behalf… #

@The_NightPorter …the sort of character well-known enough that they could bring him to the forefront long enough to out him, then fade. #

@The_NightPorter Sorry, you were probably quite smart about it, I've just got a bug up my arse about the whole subject. #

Is it reasonable, if you've got a nice prize, to ask 3 questions about 5 mins of audio & a "closest number tie-breaker"? #MOMBcast #

@The_NightPorter @Maxy_Barnard Would really appreciate your inputs on that competition question I tweeted a minute ago… #

@DanSlott That was a beautiful moment with the watch, by the way. Personally feel that's how you build tolerance, quiet moments like that. #

@sarcastathon Well, it's not just fiction. The difference between fiction & other writing is that it's honest about being a lie. #

@sarcastathon (And not all fiction does those things. My favourite fiction doesn't do that AT ALL.) #

@sarcastathon Oh I get that. I'm on a weekly podcast about comics. I totally understand disenchantment. #

@sarcastathon Just sounded like your issue was about the lie. I just see that lie in EVERYTHING, & fiction at least seems to know itself. #

@sarcastathon WAY too complicated for 140 characters, but endlessly fascinating. I find the thing that's bothering you oddly comforting. #

@Sulman It was surprisingly easy to watch, wasn't it? Even having read a glowing review of it, I thought it'd be cripplingly twee. #

@Sulman …but they strung a pretty damn appealing sit-com episode out of the conceit. #

@The_NightPorter Phew. It's now posted, along with our latest ep. #

@Sulman I wonder. I'm not one of those guys who goes wild for any retro game stuff – find that whole thing a bit boring – & enjoyed it… #

@Sulman UNLESS you mean Community in general, in which case I agree! #

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Video: hugonebula: I applaud this fella’s attempts to keep his brain ticking over, but there’s so much wrong… http://t.co/OiafmLOf #

@emslj Hah… if I hadn't seen you mention it last night, I'd still know you were talking about James Deen. He's EVERY girl's porn crush. #

@emslj Men want to be him. Women want to be with him. And some men want to be with him. #

@sleepssundays But the first movie Tim Burton made that wasn't a Tim Burton movie was the APE movie. This rule is AWFUL. @emslj #

Is there a good @tumblr tool for tracking activity – reblogs/likes – of your posts? Like, for comparing stats etc? #

@sleepssundays Hah, I don't know about THAT. Beetlejuice felt pretty significant in it's day. Nightmare Before Christmas is swell… #

@sleepssundays …& I'm VERY fond of Ed Wood. Actually, I'm talking shit, it wasn't the Ape movie, it was Ed Wood. #

@sleepssundays It's very good, I think. Very fond and human. #

@sleepssundays (I quite liked Big Fish, too, which was very understated – far more like Gilliam than Burton.) #

Well, that's disturbing. The girl with amazing legs & bubblegum-pink striped white hotpants was ahead of me whole way to John Lewis. #

@Cherry_Cinnamon PRETty sure. If I was going to stalk a girl, I'd try & find one who had more going on than a pair of hotpants & legs. #

Stuff @rhodri's RTing at mo reminding me how angry I am with employers & HR departments whose interview process is fuelled by insecurity. #

@emslj Hah, I didn't see that one! Hm. Does the haunted cellar make that story better, or worse? #

@emslj Bloody hell. This is why I don't agree with women in the workplace – you're just all too damn tempting for us poor weak men! #

Strawberry is my new jam. #

NO WAIT RASPBERRY! Raspberry is my new jam! #

Uh… is Lemon Curd a jam? #

@seanpphillips What did people come up with? #

@seanpphillips Oh, righty! Resplendent with comic supplies at the moment, but will have to consider them in future. #

@seanpphillips (My local FP is good for comic supplies, but have been left wanting in past.) #

@emslj There's a freaking GAME? #

@emslj That sounds like a game that has no real winner, but lots of losers. #

@acheverton I'm sorry, there is no way I could have seen that, as I don't follow you. Who are you, anyway? I only talk to other celebrities. #

@emslj (Blackberry) Not just mean. A total arsehole. Hadn't you heard? #

@emslj (Date) Those are just the ones left alive… #

@emslj (Fig. Which sounds disgusting, by the way.) Nothing that I can't happily reconcile with my gods. #

@emslj (Huckleberry – at which point I may be cheating a little, & just naming fruit) Yup. Makes it easier to get stuff by them. #

@Eamon_ That clip didn't work at home either. Stupid technology. But an .mkv would be super. #

@steve_lieber Ok… A) I want this book. B) That site is an instant follow. That review is beautifully written. #

@Sulman Reading this review, I thought of you… both for the book, & the reviewing site: http://t.co/6jEHZ4sa #

@emslj MEN ARE PIGS. #

@Eamon_ That's exciting, dude! The art is great, and the music is pretty cool indeed – though it cuts off a bit suddenly at the end? #

@Eamon_ Couple of typos on the copy, but that looks pretty exciting. In progress? #

@Sulman That's what I thought! #

@Sulman Gosh yeah. Great graphic novel from Mat Johnson & @Simongane called Heavy Rain uses Private Military in NOLA to great effect. #

@sispurrier Fucksake, another shit Prometheus poster. It's like they're doing it on purpose. #

@sispurrier But… explosions are awesome, & that poster is a shitty piece of composition & ugly. #

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@davidwynne Hah, yeah. #

Photo: Eclipse! (via FXVZ) http://t.co/h7j0G7Hz #

Good answers from @Pytyr2011 @idsharman @NicWilko @WarwickJC @Dion_Scrolls on that Wolvie question. Yes, @GingerMillie, like a worm! #

Oh fucking hell. Finally getting to listen to @akirathedon's new album. It opens with a song sampling one of my favourite songs of all time. #

SUCK DOWN THAT MUGWUMP JISM. @akirathedon #

@bimadew I totally misread that first bit through a squint. TOTALLY. #

@bimadew So now my favourite exclamation is "Shit just opened up a fridge!". In deep Samuel Jackson. #

"Shit just opened up a fridge, yo!" #

@storify keeps timing out when I try to view a Twitter user timeline/stream. Works fine on search. Any idea why? #

@Clarkythecruel (This is the story I was talking about yesterday, btw: http://t.co/OVtOU3to – may need a rewrite, or may be unsalvageable!) #

@bimadew (Another favourite – that I've noticed in two NY located cop shows recently – is "Shut the front door!" which is SO appealing.) #

@bimadew Is it racist if I try to do it mainly in a Samuel Jackson voice? #

@bimadew Goddamit, EVERYTHING is racist these days! Oy vey, what's a Greek to do? #

Photo: The Arrow of time by Diego Goldberg Every year on the same day, this family photographs themselves,… http://t.co/ih2iZLhm #

@emslj I don't hate the sun, but I don't love it on days when I'm at work. #

@Clarkythecruel Hm… wondered that when I re-read it the other day – sure I made a conscious decision to make it US, but not sure why. #

@Clarkythecruel May be that, with all the US TV & data I absorb I feel more comfortable with that milieu sometimes? Also write lots of Brit. #

@Clarkythecruel Thankyou, by the way! #

@Clarkythecruel This is what it sounds like when I write Brit crime. #

@sispurrier Haven't seen latest, but there have been a lot of amazing understated scenes this season. For eg. Tyrion & Cersei deliver gold. #

@davidwynne Really? "Grateful"? There must be some author flourishes in there that I've failed to factor wean out. @Clarkythecruel #

@Eamon_ Finally got into position to watch that but link didn't work. #

@davidwynne Hah, no… that one was very American – triggering off the conversation. The Brit one was: http://t.co/Ef5JDVWY #

@Eamon_ Yeah, but hang on. Maybe if I try to save it rather than open it online… #

@Eamon_ It isn't playing, but then Quicktime isn't opening on this machine. I'll try it when I get home. #

@Clarkythecruel On the first one, about the room? #

@marcmaron You should totally go downstairs to party with the poor & Irish. It'll be more fun. #

If you love something – comic, tv, etc – but complain it isn't delivering in area you expect, maybe expectations are getting in the way… #

…Like, maybe it's the ambiguity in something that is what allows the stuff you love about it to impact on you so deeply. #

…Maybe if writer was trying to make sure every group was represented, the romance in there that broke your heart wouldn't have happened… #

…maybe if they spent all their time making the movie plot watertight, that gunplay set-piece couldn't have happened the way you liked. #

http://t.co/LAiYIoh3 – Unsurprisingly, this is triggered by a conversation @DamonLindelof is having ON THE VERGE: http://t.co/LAiYIoh3 #

…But at the 07:00 point in that video, the interviewer blows 6 minutes of posturing by showing his viewer comprehension was for shit. #

Art-journalism totally thing we can have. We can take bits of anecdotal interviews, draw the interviewee, & call it journalism. & art. #

By the same token I am taking a social-shit right now. That's where you engage with social media while taking a shit. #

@damswedon Honestly there's no sense trying to make sense of it. It is a Thing A Luvvy Said. Idiot-proof. #

Idiot-proof in this context means it's proof that they are an idiot. #

@dan_hill if you loved the end of Lost, it's incredible how many times you end up having exactly that conversation. But with less listening. #

@Storify It was Firefox, most recent version, on a work network. #

This show is so skill. http://t.co/MsXbR3bB @GetGlue @GameofThrones #

Lots of humour leavening the desperate situation in Kings Landing. http://t.co/MsXbR3bB @GetGlue @GameofThrones #

@dan_hill And yet strangely unable to point to exactly what lie was told. #

@twilightstreets @andydiggle I take it in each case you did chase down a staff member & sort it? Fuckers need to be told. #

Cunt quotient in this episode is pretty high. http://t.co/MsXbR3bB @GetGlue @GameofThrones #

The Chaplin DNA is pretty fucking strong, huh? http://t.co/MsXbR3bB @GetGlue @GameofThrones #

@richardcobbett @Glinner I don't know, the 1st two were pretty obviously arch & darkly satirically ott… Haven't played knew one, tho. #

@richardcobbett @Glinner fucksake, NEW one. Not KNEW! #

Fuck me is that Colt Severs? http://t.co/K1DNlpSr @GetGlue @CSINY_CBS #

@PaulfConvery That is really good to hear! #

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Video: James Bond Skyfall Trailer This has more stimulating stuff going on in the trailer than Quantum Of… http://t.co/DRek9lnE #

Does anybody have the link for that site with all the movie poster cliches/tropes? #

Coldest City by @antonyjohnston has arrived. Gorgeous presentation. Going to be bloody ages before I can read it, though. #

@RvanceTal That is great, but it's not the thing I was looking for, which is a gallery of actual posters presented by aesthetic? #

The only thing worse than under-representating minority groups in comics is arbitrary token representation of those groups. #

…I mean in comics, obviously. There are LOADS of things worse than those two things in the real world. Rape, for example. Famine. #

…the state of the economy, & the daily shit that people have to deal with at their day jobs. All of those things are worse. For starters. #

@sarahditum I assume that every day! #

@idsharman But… she IS sexy, isn't she? #

…If you don't think there's a natural place for an ethnicity/gender/sexuality in your story, you probably shouldn't be writing them in… #

…If you KEEP not finding a natural place for any of those things in your stories you might want to gently examine yourself & work out why. #

@idsharman Tut. LACK OF IMAGINATION. #

@Chris_TOMP I don't have TOO much of a problem with the idea that some people write middle-of-the-road stuff. Firmly believe in: #

@Chris_TOMP BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD when it comes to creativity. But still, always good to check yourself. #

@Chris_TOMP I don't even see that as a problem necessarily. About the stuff you know, you can be insightful. The other stuff, not so much. #

@Chris_TOMP Exactly, that! #

@jeffnoon Did I already mention that I'm reviewing all my stories here: http://t.co/D9mKkvtx for possible collection? Keep coming across… #

@jeffnoon …examples where I'm clearly trying to riff on the cut-up rhythm of your novels. & other places where I out-&-out rip you off. #

@jeffnoon (By accident, you understand.) #

@jeffnoon …Never more than here: http://t.co/zJT1paKf – you can tell from the title where your work hit me. #

@jeffnoon Blimey, thankyou! Was telling you by way of talking about influence on me, but always happy for EW to get attention. #

@jeffnoon Part of the joy of a certain sort of writing, isn't it? It amazes me that you manage to pull longer narratives out of that joy. #

BTW: In 07 I wrote this story about wanking, & the future: http://t.co/OgkLpvBa #

HEY GUYS IMPORTANT QUESTION IN THIS OFFICE RIGHT NOW: If you split Wolverine RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, would each half regenerate, making two? #

People not on Twitter bitch about twitter but if not for Twitter I wouldn't be able to talk properly with so many of my writing heroes. #

@johnwarrender Wait, what, there are people who think the Man In Black is the BAD guy? @sarcastathon #

@sarcastathon Agree with that sad about Locke, but I actually LOVED that creative choice. Totally emotionally disruptive. @johnwarrender #

@sarcastathon (Also if you're one of the people who LIKED the end, Locke get's his happy ending, opening Jack's eyes.) @johnwarrender #

@McKelvie I think I missed the sweet spot on G+. Trying to use it for MOMB. #

http://t.co/K391FoSV I could listen to John Lithgow talk about theater all day. #

@sarcastathon Hah, well, drinking is ace, but who fights over TV? That's what all those OTHER internet people do. @johnwarrender @Sulman #

@sarcastathon @johnwarrender Besides, possible that part of reason @Sulman left country was to stop having this same conversation with me.:D #

It's ok to use an ethnic slur if the character saying it is clearly a dodgy Rucker, right? #

Wait, what? How does my phone not know the word fucker over Rucker? MY phone? #

@johnwarrender I may be the opposite. Lots of things I'm shouty about, but think I'm irritably placid on this subject. @sarcastathon @Sulman #

@johnwarrender …last season was a tough sell, content-wise. It moved me deeply, but get that that might be personal. @sarcastathon @Sulman #

@johnwarrender (It's also kind of how I like to write, so that may be why it resonated for me.) #

@sarcastathon That's fair enough. There's lots there, & they fudge enough of it to confuse things… @johnwarrender @Sulman #

@sarcastathon I'm a cheap romance for TV though. If it fucks me right early, it can treat me bad right til it leaves. @johnwarrender @Sulman #

@Sulman lol epic burn lol @sarcastathon @johnwarrender #

@Sulman Course, at least I know that you ALSO hated end of BSG. Crazy the blind spot some have for that show. @sarcastathon @johnwarrender #

@Sulman "I had this weird dream where Jamie Bamber got real fat & the president had magic boring cancer!" @sarcastathon @johnwarrender #

"I want to bang her right in her clumsy pussy!" #quote #nonsequitir #

@sarcastathon Whoops! Well, look, if Lost infuriated you, you probably want to spare yourself. #spacehippies @Sulman @johnwarrender #

@Clarkythecruel Well, that's not really why it's there/what it's for. It's the narrator: he's hardened criminal & voice seemed right. #

@Clarkythecruel …I don't really deal in good & evil. #

@Sulman Hah, really? You know me, I hold few telly grudges, & only properly disliked the final scene. @johnwarrender #

@steevbishop John Fash-anu? @Sulman #

Photo: Anya by sulman She’s such a lovely dog. Lovely and noisy. http://t.co/vrCaGHLX #

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@emslj Love that song. Isn't that the track with the big wacky machine video as well? #

Season 1 ending was fucking intense and awesome. http://t.co/vyW7Kqja @GetGlue @HawaiiFive0CBS #

Great final episode of the season. Intense, action-packed, high stakes, and heart. http://t.co/Vqv0SeQ1 @GetGlue @CrimMinds_CBS #

Watching the pilot… really nicely made tv, great understated performances, emotional set-up, and engaging police s… http://t.co/8YFyflWe #

@AFMJen Damn. Is there any sort of closure? I mean, is there an arc that concludes in the eps we've got? #

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@SotonCentreCops Good point… MUCH drier read that way. Stick with the superheroism! #

Amy violated my trust this morning; there now exists video of me in my towel rocking out to Sabotage. Then we danced to @akirathedon… #

…she had a cute little impromptu routine to @akirathedon's Babydoll, that I couldn't get the arm bits right for. #

Amy is rewatching L Word. Remembering how last season made me feel far too much sympathy for Jenny. A pretty great show, I thought. #

@Geebie Honest to fuck, we're all going to regret going digital the first time we do something major financially, that requires records… #

There's a lot of aspirational fashion-template bollocks in L Word, but that cast is just superb throughout. Kirshner is amazing. #

@Geebie A phone-clerk-fellow at Barclays gave the unsolicited explanation that it is because storing them digitally takes too much space… #

@Geebie …I know they're given party line to spout, but company owes it to them to not give them one that makes them sound fucking stupid. #

http://t.co/QqDElY7s – Harmon knows how to handle a blog post the way Whedon knows how to handle a blog post. Great response to tough call. #

…I've no doubt that Harmon is also the tempestuous guy we've heard about, but that blog post is pretty damn classy. #

I feel pretty good about Community & Parks & Rec having one final season, but not more. Former still great, but so troubled it's painful… #

…Latter has given itself a perfect lead-in to a well crafted final act. #

Maybe it's just been a nice couple of days of people I like responding with smarts & class to stupid scenarios, though. #

@AndrewTunney A lot of people really focussed on how people other than themselves should be doing things different. #

@joedecie @badmachinery Social media puts whole relationship on head. Point of reviews/praise should be to get you seen by the oblivious… #

@joedecie @badmachinery If I'm following a person, it's reasonable to assume that I A) like their work B) am aware of it. #

@joedecie @badmachinery (I've no problem with promotion of one's work – appreciate it, actually – but never really understand rt'd praise.) #

@joedecie @badmachinery (…or Rt'd criticism, actually. Slightly weird instinct to do that.) #

@StacebobT Totally get that. Mind, actually glad there's only one more season. The stress this year has been terrible, disrupted enjoyment. #

Firing Harmon might make sense from business perspective. Already know they're commited to 4 season boxset & no more. Cast chang would be… #

…far more disruptive to sales of that than showrunner change. This way they get their eps with minimum disruption/fuss in production. #

…not saying it isn't shit, because it is. Shocking way to treat an employee. But I can see where it makes sense. #

@StacebobT Yup, Community, Parks & Rec & Studio 60 redux I mean 30 Rock. One more year of each. #

@StacebobT I'd be MORE sad about Parks & Rec than Community if former hadn't set themselves up perfectly for a final season. Love that show. #

@StacebobT I don't know what that is. I mean, I know what a Kenneth is, just not in this context. #

@StacebobT Well, then, there's just no talking to you, you're obviously wrong in the head. #

@StacebobT … #

@StacebobT …aww, you're so damn lovely, I can't stay mad at you. #

@StacebobT (Amy doesn't like either show. The only current us sitcom we share is Modern Family.) #

@StacebobT The kid a bona fido genius! Can honestly say only had one episode of the show fall flat – the iPad one. #

@StacebobT (Though every now & then you can tell they've got writers in who don't quite get the format.) #

@Clarkythecruel Oh wow. I mean, it's no comedy, but. But that may be in my wheelhouse. Before it gets cancelled. @StacebobT #

@Clarkythecruel If it feels even a TINY bit like Deadwood… Incidentally, the one show whose cancellation really upset me.@StacebobT #

@Clarkythecruel …we only needed one more year of that show to make it the beat tv boxset we will ever have. @StacebobT #

@Clarkythecruel BEST NOT BEAT fucking cunting phone. @StacebobT #

@StacebobT It's awful. Twenty minute product placement for Apple. #

@sarcastathon Yeah, but nobody whose opinion really MATTERS, surely? #

I wrote a thing about how media & culture changes. It is probably cantankerous & meandering, but you may like it!: http://t.co/gkkhrJ6a #

@Sulman Thanks, sir! #

@Kevin_Church Beautiful film. It doesn't falter. #

@DJDarren PRETTY sure a fellow can lose his job for that. #

@AndrewTunney Thanks, sir. Did you get a chance to read it? It IS very long. #

@AndrewTunney Course… I'm just so used to my stuff being too long to read in one sitting! #

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@sarahditum You are a HERO, more like. #

http://t.co/hR3gMEjL Listening to another great ep of 99%Invisible. You're all subscribed to this by now, right? #

@thirteenminutes Stupid 140 character limit, huh? #

@sarahditum If he's willing to do without his music while still that angry, he doesn't DESERVE music. #

@sarahditum (Also I'd happily take the bet that you could take down any train-bothering mutha-sucka!) #

@Chris_TOMP 1st issue I didn't want to review on show. Bad art decisions rendered it unreadable. Pham & Palmer are great but not together. #

@Chris_TOMP Not normally an art prude but lack of consistency on the 4 Drive was just an indication of issues, & maddening. #

@Chris_TOMP THIS WAS THE FIRST BIG PAY-OFF for that artifact, Ffs. Get artists who've SEEN a comic with it in! #

@Chris_TOMP Mainstream Marvel books frustrated me so much. Three examples of competent creators squandering goodwill from exceptional ones. #

@Chris_TOMP (He's not a good fit for DD, but add Palmer & it's like flashback to the worst of early 90s Marvel.) #

@Chris_TOMP (Don't get me started on New Mutants & the Ends Of The Earth special…) #

@comicsreporter Interesting eg. If I was a business looking at the decision, I'd probably see the hugely lucrative SW prequels as a sign. #

@comicsreporter & it's easy to see the derision for SW prequels as ubiquitous in retrospect: it didn't look that way for detractors at time. #

.@GeekSyndicate We've already HAD so many Blade Runner sequels/prequels. Just no official ones as yet. #

@Chris_TOMP It's supposed to be BARELY THICKER than a piece of material. OH MY GOD SO ANGRY. #

@emslj Aww, lovely! #

@Chris_TOMP Just SO MUCH YUCK. Which wouldn't be SO bad, had they not had so much goodness til now. #

Oh my god. @kierongillen shared this over on Tumblr. It's… hurty in my tummy: http://t.co/M1G3bbnW (@Sulman) #

@Chris_TOMP I don't think I even finished it, so I probably didn't see that far. #

@Chris_TOMP Yes! DO THAT! #

@JaneMOMB It's… ignorable! When you and @JamesMOMB listen to the show you'll be able to make a judgment. People won't notice, I reckon. #

http://t.co/ZRPpQwF3 – ALL THE FEELINGS BEING FELT HERE. #

http://t.co/CNzdhu6g – I don't know what this is, but I want it. (Contains nudity/violence/possible artwank). #

@jhewlett Awesome sauce, dude! #

@sarcastathon Hah, amateur! I totally sleep through my own incredibly loud snoring EVERY NIGHT. #

@sarcastathon Hah! Well OF COURSE I BELIEVE THIS TOTALLY UNPROVABLE to me FACT. #

@sarcastathon Although in the interest of science and truth, maybe you should think about setting up a webcam… #

@sarcastathon FOR SCIENCE! And for TRUTH! #

@sarcastathon Well, of COURSE they said that. They'll say anything to avoid getting a wonky write-up. You've got TOO MUCH TERRIFYING POWER. #

Oh, by the way, @ArtyGallagher, lots of love for you toward end of last night's show. #

@richjohnston That… sounds more PREviewey? Not your syntax – used by some of the people you quote – but still. #

@sarcastathon So WHY IS THERE A STAR RATING SYSTEM? And why does every post start with vital statistics? Explain that! #

Ok! @MexigoUK for lunch was lovely. BURRITO! Company was good – @jhewlett & co. We talked about his thwarted dreams for the Tank Girl movie. #

@CartoonistLuke Moriarty is questioned? What? #

@CartoonistLuke Oh, that makes loads more sense. #

@sarcastathon I note you aren't presenting proof that I am wrong… #

@sarcastathon Hah, you KNOW I've read your blog, stooopid. How else would I have identified your particular psychosis to keep myself safe? #

@kalpenn But… but as I understand it God made Adam and Eve AND Steve. Little @rupanp! It's GOD, yo! It makes whatever the fuck it likes. #

@MhairiMcF Is that statement "OH SWEET JESUS MY EYES"? #

@sarcastathon I'm really very good at this. & yeah, know that isn't what your blog is but it's been a cunt of a week, & it's made me a cunt. #

@sarcastathon (I was HORRIBLE to @JamesMOMB on last night's show. (Although he always kind of deserves it.)) #

@sarcastathon (Not an excuse, you understand. I have to believe that by now you all know what I'm like. I'm horrid.) #

Comic convention episode! These are, along with Evils Of The Internet eps, the ones most likely to irritate me. http://t.co/vyW3cQa0 #

@sarcastathon Tough one. Isn't property theft? #

@AndrewTunney Well, SOME of us have been behind you since backwhen. Which just shows how small our audience/credibility is. #

@marcmaron They've already fucking got one. #

@sarcastathon Hm. Boozy communist. Get your komrade wodka. #

@AndrewTunney Oh good fucking answer re the gender of Girl & Boy. I think most (certainly me) would be too annoyed by the question. #

@AndrewTunney ALSO good to hear on the other front #

@AndrewTunney It's a very peculiar lack of self-awareness on display. I mean, why can't gay characters be straight? #

@AndrewTunney …for that matter, Boy was black, wasn't he? Why wasn't Girl? Or, why do you hate white dudes so much? #

@Maxy_Barnard She's right, you know. @davidwynne #

@AndrewTunney Nah, they've got you all wrong. You're basically saying a white dude couldn't get a fine piece of ass like Girl. Self-hater. #

@AndrewTunney …wait. Is "fine piece of ass" sexist? #

@ErikaMoen Dude, another perfect comic. All makes perfect sense the way you lay it out. #

@AndrewTunney Makes sense to me. Did you see @erikamoen's Queer strip that's doing rounds today? #

@AndrewTunney My feeling is, if people can't process or communicate like grown-ass adults, I'm going to treat them like children. #

2nd episode of this triple finale, which is going swimmingly. Britta & Annie both look oddly hot in their outfits. W… http://t.co/LIRphcky #

OH MY GOD BLADE! http://t.co/LIRphcky @GetGlue @nbccommunity #

@sarcastathon Told you! Communists! #

Impotent. http://t.co/LIRphcky @GetGlue @nbccommunity #

@Sulman I think it might be way too much. But I'd like to know what you think anyway! #

@Sulman LOLS. #

Aww, this show makes me feel warm and happy. Pulled it out the hat for these last three episodes, I thought. http://t.co/LIRphcky @GetGlue #

@ArtyGallagher Busy busy signing? (Just got my Amazon alert telling me @antonyjohnston's Coldest City is on it's way! YES!) #

@ArtyGallagher Something something achy wrists something! @antonyjohnston #

@SotonCentreCops Using POWERS? That sounds WAY more awesome than I bet it actually was. #

@Kevin_Church if it's the one I think it is, it's so simple but I loved it. #

@Kevin_Church (In related news, Pierce was great in that finale triple-bill. Better than in a while.) #

@DJDarren Nah, I don't think so. You don't have to tread far into any ideology to find it, I think. #

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Video: Aaron Sorkin’s Commencement Speech – 13 May 2012 at Syracuse http://t.co/nqAWWfpj #

@JamesMOMB I'm more focussed on people answering THIS weeks, you plum. @GingerMillie @JonMOMB @Maxy_Barnard #

@davidwynne I think you already answered it, albeit on here where it's harder to refind it… #

@davidwynne …about priorities when choosing to attend a convention? #

@JamesMOMB You're like a fucking idiot, is what you're like. @GingerMillie @JonMOMB @Maxy_Barnard @ThatKevinSmith #

@davidwynne It's cool, I remembered your response… Hopefully on tumblr. It's more about how easy it is to harvest responses before show. #

The #Prometheus poster on the Charlotte Place roundabout is the least visually interesting piece of movie art I've seen in months. #

@DJDarren That sounds so much like an Apple article in mirror it's untrue. People, eh? #

@DJDarren Dude, if the "ancient viral" thing still stresses you out, you clearly aren't on enough old people's email lists. #

@ryanklindsay The concept of "shark jumping" is the biggest, ugliest crutches to smartarse entertainment consumption… @DanielJayLogan #

@ryanklindsay …is I guess my knee-jerk reaction to that. Think #Community said it best. @DanielJayLogan #

@eoghans May be the same one… 3 floating heads on left, badly composed film elements on right? #

@DJDarren Smart man. I made mistake of letting my dad have mine. Sigh. #

@eoghans Oh, it's horrible. But, I guess, memorable in it's horribleness? #

@mrphoenix Will the university compensate? I guess right now the work you've lost is a huge concern. Hope it works out for you! #

@ryanklindsay (The "crutches" there was a result of in-phone editing on the fly. TOO ANGRY THIS MORNING FOR LANGUAGE.) @DanielJayLogan #

@AndrewTunney It's amazing, isn't it? How completely the ball can be dropped on design once you get far enough from source. #

@AndrewTunney (That IS the one, yeah.) #

@emslj DO IT! DO IT! #

6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America | http://t.co/FQHtYXjM – I knew about some of this, but… http://t.co/XzwCy6GB #

@AndrewTunney It's been pretty uninspired for a long time, but seldom as incompetent as that one. Dark Shadows one 2 down puts it to shame. #

@AndrewTunney (And that's just standard full-body character shots arranged around big central Depp figure boringboringboring.) #

@steevbishop @AndrewTunney SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW. #

@AndrewTunney Wow. That's how you do a movie poster. Haven't actually seen that before. @steevbishop Features celeb face/story element! #

Photo: This is how you do a movie poster. (Andrew Tunney, wonderful comic creator, showed me this this… http://t.co/a1CLjBgZ #

@DJDarren WE ARE ALL SPAM ACCOUNTS. GENERIC CHEERFUL SUBJECT NEUTRAL SOUNDING @. http://t.co/PByQLxco #

@pencil_monkey If it was done today, I fucking BET they'd put devil horns somewhere on something. Or a CREEPY RED FLAMES effect. #

By the way, I'm no design genius or prude, & I'm not hating on generic-movie-poster-work – I don't actually mind that there's a shorthand… #

…but there are ways to do "uninspired" that don't also look completely incompetent to a layman like me. #

I'm going on the assumption that these wasabi peas only have as many calories as normal peas. #

@Chris_TOMP YAY AND HUZZAH! You dropped that knowledge, yo! #

Video: God Bless America by Bobcat Goldthwait I really, really want to watch this movie. http://t.co/QI6cYBoT #

Peopl! We are record #MOMBcast tonit! 2-5 min contributchshunz welcum! ALSO QUESTONs/COMMENT! mombcast@gmail.com Facebuk Tumbl Googol+! RT! #

What's black & white & red & can't get through revolving doors? #

ALSO what's red and sits in the corner? #

And how many clowns can you get through the eye of a needle? #

ALSO why is the sky blue? #

(I'm going to try and get all these niggling questions sorted all at once today, so I can get on with the rest of my life.) #

@sarcastathon Ah, they're probably YOUR friend. But you're probably THEIR ex. It's confusing. #

I am so glad I've discovered the Secret Brotherhood Of The 1st Floor Mens Toilet. I no longer feel so alone with my 1st Floor Toilet Issues. #

@emslj It's natural. The accent has a naturally more amiable & trustworthy lilt to it than most. Which in my experience has been misleading. #

@emslj Apparently, almost any bullshit sounds more feasible in that accent. #

Got far fewer RTs of my incoherent call for contributions than we normally do of the MORE coherent one. A lesser man than I might LEARN. #

@royalboiler Later output gave impression that Baker wasn't interested in going back to that relation-observation stuff but I would LOVE it. #

@stace_w Between your lady crushes & my man crushes, & everyone else, the UK comics podcasting scene is a lot like the last days of Rome. #

@stace_w …Polymorphously perverse and anything goes with gay abandon, innit? #

When I finally create my podcast empire the sex-talk show will be called Polymorphously Perverse. & Amy will shut it down after one episode. #

@stace_w I know, sweetie, but enough of the "lil". It's not my fault it's so cold in Leeds SNARF SNARF. (ALSO MUTUALWISE.) #

Hai guys this looks like it will be a really polished & interesting flim! http://t.co/jS1R5WJ8 #

@Sulman Hey, you know, it DOES look like her. Almost as if they just photoshopped a headshot they got from her agent into the poster. Ffs. #

Wow, I think I really hate Russell Howard. #

@davidwynne He makes me so angry. JUST as insensitive about everything as Frankie Boyle, but he does it with a cheeky mum-friendly grin… #

@davidwynne …he's such a horribly middle-of-the-road safe comedian, which I'm ok with, but… put it this way, I don't mind comics… #

@davidwynne …being transgressive in material, if they either deliberately or organically have some ugliness in their persona/delivery. #

@davidwynne I find it hard to explain this without getting quite angry & possibly overstating my point. But I think he lacks honesty. #

@davidwynne As repulsive as many find a Boyle or a Gervais, they don't let the audience feel as comfortable as Howard does. #

@davidwynne (I mean, I'm conscious that there's a level at which it sounds like I'm absolving Manning & Davidson, but I think anyone who… #

@davidwynne …can't see the difference between Boyle or Gervais & Davidson or Manning is looking at things in a very simplistic way.) #

@davidwynne Pop culture references, things that sound funny because he uses a regional accent, & jokes about his brother/family… #

@davidwynne (In the MTW format, you don't notice it immediately – in context of an ensemble some of his gags seem whimsically amusing.) #

@davidwynne I think Boyle got very lazy on MTW, but watched the stand-up dvd & I really enjoyed his frustration/anger. #

@stace_w It took a while – in the MTW ensemble he fills a role that allows him to make you laugh by accident – but yeah I'm angry about him. #

@StacebobT When I did my stint as your podcast husband – or I guess you did your stint as my podcast beard? – you weren't sure about it… #

@StacebobT …so really glad you loved Avengers, because I did too! Also, we're watching True Blood because you convinced me to. #

@davidwynne I think it was the Mong thing, along with Good News, that turned me properly. Apparently if you look like "somebody's nephew"… #

@davidwynne …you can stomp on similar tropes to a chunky, slightly smarmy but better comedian, but avoid ANY of the scrutiny. #

@davidwynne @stace_w And what the fuck is it with unthreatening, slightly wonky & not that funny gently regional comedians called Russell? #

@StacebobT You said it was great up till a point. And that seems to be one of the few geek things that EVERYONE agrees with. #

@StacebobT (But you also said you think it might get better next season. I can handle a dip in quality EASY.) #

@davidwynne I don't know about that – hard to see him getting the traction in a school environment – but he's definitely got it in him. #

@davidwynne Depends how successful he gets. Comics who get huge success often struggle getting with their stand-up, don't they? @stace_w #

@StacebobT Balls deep is an interesting choice of words talking about True Blood, youse. #

@StacebobT Genius! #

Put @JaneMOMB on a different chair this week. It made for better vocal levels, but increased background noise. Her chair creaked. #MOMBcast #

@Sulman Oh lovely! #

http://t.co/ZROn3FKE – Lots to find issue with in this response from an MP to a constituent asking for help for he & his partner to marry. #

…Aside from the basic dismissal he delivers, taking more & more issue with importance placed on marriage in "fabric of our nation". #

Don't get me wrong. I love being married to my wife, because I love my wife. As a personal expression of commitment, marriage is fine… #

But saying "the importance of marriage" is taught to children in schools, then complaining about Political Correctness Run A Mock (sic)? #

As bullshit as any politician buying into the PC Gone Mad thing is, isn't "the importance of marriage" being taught in schools an eg of it? #

Why the FUCK is "the importance of marriage" given any fucking space in a classroom? Which subject is that in? #

Where does that leave the poor fucking kids whose parents are no longer or never got married? This shit is all backwards. #

…Maybe we should start dismantling how fucking important marriage is, so that people can start doing it entirely by choice. #

@Sulman Well, okay, I mean you've got an inarguable point. They just can't stop… mucking about. And they attract enemy radar. #

@sarcastathon Phoo, steady on, luv. Something seems to be playing havoc with your temper tonight. #

@Sulman Don't get me started on bloody Feminists. It's like I can't compliment a skirt without the bloody inquisition ripping off my cock. #

@sarcastathon WAIT THERE ARE POLICE NOW? #

@sarcastathon WHAT? I… should probably not have tweeted any of the tweets I've tweeted in the last ten minutes, then? #

@Sulman Wait, do they have police in Amerikkka, too? (Not being lefty, just really, really liked Shooting Stars.) #

@sarcastathon I don't like it it's like you can't trust anyone and ideology is all full of traps. @Sulman #

@AFMJen I felt a fire in me. Part of reason I don't speak up on freedom of marriage is because it feels like an anacronism that ANY of… #

@AFMJen …us still feel it's an institution worth protecting or coveting with this intensity. That mainstream western religions still… #

@AFMJen …cling onto it with clawed fingers seems immediately obvious, but long-term such a strange, self-destructive behaviour. #

@AFMJen (Strange in way that I can't quite explain at this hour. Zealots in organisations that have had to be more pragmatic to survive.) #

@The_NightPorter Hah, that could honestly be a response to any one of the tweets I've sent in last half hour. #

@The_NightPorter BTW SHOW'S UP. #

@thirteenminutes Aww, know Gaiman thing was compliment, but Wood is one of handful of comic writers in last 20 years whose voice is unique. #

@brianwood Was #4 first non-adaptation issue of Conan you mentioned the other day? Loved it. Reviewed on #MOMBcast http://t.co/oG8WfQJC #

@leighalexander Geez, come on. Parents should name their kids whatever they like, chances are the kids will hate them REGARDLESS. #

@brianwood Thought it showed slightly in a change of pace, but only in good ways. First 3 were great, 4 was BETTER. #

@The_NightPorter Yup. Sorry. #

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@bloggerheads "Poor women, lined up in beds exposed to the ward, as untrained men with Henrys painfully hoover one baby after another out." #

@bloggerheads …That sort of thing? #

I dreamed that my bosses found all of my boxes of comics under my work bed, & complained about me using office space for personal stuff… #

…What The Fuck? Work beds? #

@DJDarren I KNOW RIGHT? #

Listening to @CraigyFerg talking to @marcmaron on @WTFpod. Lovely frank conversation. Edge, humour & charm. #

@bloggerheads Well, if they did it the way I just suggested, it COULD be! Sigh. Me over here, fixing everything. #

@steevbishop It's delightful. We're on alcoholism. #

@DJDarren Well, thank GOODNESS the time I was forced to watch them live they were still doing Pure Morning, then. #

@DJDarren Ex girlfriends! Mind, I'd happily take that one over the one who ruined the first time I got to see BNL. #

@DJDarren Bumped into two of her lesbian friends. They seemed fine with me, but she acted like by being there at all I'd offend them &… #

@DJDarren …just wouldn't chill out – we weren't even near them in a full gig. Rowing meant I didn't get to listen to band at all. #

@DJDarren I've seen them since & it was lovely, so no worries, though! #

@jhewlett HAH PERFECT BURN @McKelvie #

@McKelvie I mean HAH PERFECT BURN in that Shut up Scott Pilgrim was the perfec… twitter syntax is confusing. @jhewlett #

@jhewlett It sincerely isn't something I love/do on purpose. It's just how I communicate. @McKelvie #

@McKelvie It's a DISEASE! @jhewlett I AM LICENSED TO ILL! #

Weird times at Workplace High. #

Every 5 minutes, somewhere in the world, a new Jason Statham movie is released. #

@brianwood Endearing that you're nervous about that, but seriously: You're the guy who wrote Northlanders. I'm not worried at reader end. #

@stace_w I totally read that as WORTIS. Wondered what the fuck for a second. D'uh. #

@stace_w IT IS NICE. #

Video: Brilliant, honest monologue from Craig Ferguson in 2007. http://t.co/jian867p #

@steevbishop Thanks, dude… that was a wonderful monologue. TUMBLED IT! #

@DJDarren But ultimately they're both just DICKS. You could also argue that Joffrey has real conviction, but Theon's a gigantic vagina. #

@DJDarren Like trying to choose between a calamity & a disaster. Theon is a craven wimp. So is Joffrey. But in Theon it's his primary trait. #

@DJDarren Thinking about it: Nobody has ever trusted Joffrey in anything but a resigned, what choice do I have? way. Theon's disloyal. #

OH MY GOD I CAN'T STOP PUTTING THESE WASABI PEAS INSIDE ME BUT THEY HURT SO GOOD! #

@DJDarren Why would that hurt, you homophone?? #

@DJDarren Oh, well, that sounds AWFUL. No, that doesn't sound good at all. #

@abbybarker In my mouth, dirty girl! #

@abbybarker I'm hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes. Also, it's Sci-fi wasabi. #

http://t.co/qSIqfMK2 – Hopefully Nick Stahl will turn up alive soon. Liked him a lot in Carnivale, a talented guy. #

@DJDarren I partially blame you for telling me a story that makes me partially want to strangle his mother. #

@TheMichaelMoran @pencil_monkey Oh god that's seriously brilliant. #

Still asking question about comic conventions at http://t.co/jNx5GElf, http://t.co/zdgG4nkJ, http://t.co/I5oRcusz & http://t.co/qAUv78oV #

@JamesMOMB @GingerMillie @JonMOMB @Maxy_Barnard I don't know what I did to deserve being put through this conversation. #

@DonaldGlover Far from Just Some Dude, sir. Masterful. #

@sarcastathon "This was a Pizza Hut…" #

@emmacaulfield And Buffy. Don't forget Buffy. #

@PaulfConvery It was one of my standout books of last year over on #MOMBcast @AndrewTunney #

@emslj I have one of the most awesomebest tumblrs. At least, I dimly remember it being good when I was on top of it. #

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