Posts Tagged ‘alan moore’

Pirate Jenny

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

For vaguely Alan Moore reasons I was recently checking out some renditions of Threepenny Opera tunes, and I found this version of Pirate Jenny that out-creepies the Nina Simone and Ute Lemper versions that I was familiar with. I thought I’d share.

A capsule review

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

most of it is such a carbon copy of the book that some of what alan’s saying gets across by accident. it’s kind of like someone with no sense of humour retelling a joke he heard once. some lines are taken out of context and you remember them from the book so you KNOW they’re [...]

Eight links make a post

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

And now, for another exciting post of links and short comments:

I’ve always been aware of having been gifted with a pretty powerful attention span. I have always kind of assumed it came from becoming a reader at a very young age, but I guess it’s equally plausible that things are actually ordered the other way [...]

More Book-y Bits

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Did you get a chance to experience the cognitive dissonance that comes from VanderMeerian words read in a high-toned children’s literature type voice?
Speaking of VanderMeerian weirdness, there was a nice little slice of it over at Tor.com.
Sometime soon (yes, Real Soon Now) I will write another golden book post, and this one will focus on [...]

Noted Quotes

Monday, January 19th, 2009

A couple of quotations from my web reading recently:
“I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, waterboarding is torture.” –U.S. Attorney General nominee Eric Holder (via)
“Watch half a film. Ring someone up, ask them about their dreams. Make your life as patchy a discourse as possible.” –M. John Harrison, explaining something about writing
“If only it were all [...]

Painfully limited

Friday, December 5th, 2008

I’ve made no secret of the fact that Eddie Campbell is one of my favourite comic creators—not to mention one of the top five living people I’d want to spend a night drinking and talking BS with—and that I think Alan Moore is probably the best comic writer to have yet lived.
So it’s probably not [...]

Monday Miscellany

Monday, March 31st, 2008

It’s really a miscellany today. I was half-tempted to title this 88 lines about 44 links, and maybe even do it in some kind of poetic structure, but fortunately a combination of laziness and good sense prevailed.

Nice to see that former local (and HGPA-member) Brian O’Malley’s movie deal is actually happening–at least leads are being [...]

Hmm…

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

That looks pretty good. I really hope that the inkblots move around dynamically after post-production, though.

A Targeted Miscellany

Monday, September 10th, 2007

A Sunday link list, of things that made me think of specific people.
For my lovely wife, to share with her radical feminist associates, is the story of the most famous pirate of all time. Especially the bits about the pirate laws governing female prisoners. And the end of the story.
Also for her yet another story [...]