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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

A web cartoon I found again while digging up again Matt Rossi’s golden-age Superman posts.

Two cartoons I liked – one for him:

superman failed to defeat the enrgy crisis

And one for the alter ego:

let me fix the list

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The Kid’s Comic Book Reviews

The Kid’s Comic Book Reviews – comic reviews by a 7 year old. Really good for showing what works and what doesn’t work in superhero comics.

[also via Lying in the Gutters]

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Paul McAuley: How Not To Write A Short Story

6) It’s important to get the first page absolutely right. Don’t be afraid to rewrite it 1000 times. Did I say page? I meant sentence.

Earth and other unlikely worlds: How Not To Write A Short Story

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T-rying too hard

bird! plane! superman! ...

via jwz, an amusing T-Shirt site that has a front page which will make you chuckle, but which reflects perhaps too much on the limitations of its medium and gets too meta in it’s message. As it describes itself, Torsopants are like funny t-shirts, but not t-shirts and not funny!

cliffhangers are

purples

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40 + 0.00274

The first blog post of the rest of my life!

Gosh, my Midlife Crisis Countdown widget was darn buggy.

I spent my 40th giving out cake and hearing that I look younger than my age, which is nice I guess. Was too busy to post a birthday blog post, which is good, because in the past, I have been known to be maudlin.

Here’s the most unexpected cool happy birthday I got, made by a nice co-worker:

On a day that included a birthday call from Australia, that’s pretty surprising.