Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?
O_O
………my friend has made me curious
help me roger
Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director
These never work for me, but here’s to trying.
I don’t believe in these things
But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job
But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.
Roger is cute.
Eh Roger is cute I might as well
That fish is so happy it makes me happy.
Reblogging myself because I reblogged this yesterday and got promoted today!
In defending the absence of women shortlisted for the Grand Prix award, Angouleme Festival director Franck Bondoux offered this weak justification:
“When we go back and look at the places of men and women during that time, in the field of comics creation, it is clear that there are very few recognized authors… it is objectively faster to count the female creators (almost on the fingers of one hand) than the males.The Festival cannot rewrite the history of comics.”
There’s no need to re-write history to include women creators. You need only read them.
Coming this spring from Fantagraphics is The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, an anthology of some of the most ground-breaking work in comics history. Edited by Trina Robbins and featuring the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Phoebe Glockener, Julie Doucet, Roberta Gregory and Carol Tyler (and at least 30 other names you should become familiar with.)
THIS BOOK
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THIS FUCKING BOOK
THIS SHIT WAS WTNV BEFORE IT EXISTED
THIS SHIT WAS CRAZY
THEY MADE ICE-CREAM THAT TASTED LIKE THE INSIDE OF KIDS MOUTHS BUT EVERYONE COULD TASTE IT BUT THE ACTUAL KID
THE SCHOOL WAS MISSING A FLOOR
THIS SHIT BOTH RUINED AND MADE MY CHILDHOOD
THIS SHIT WAS MY CREEPY CHILD *AESTHETIC* BEFORE I KNEW WHAT AN “AESTHETIC” WAS
ONE OF THE KIDS WAS A DEAD RAT UNDER A PILE OF RAINCOATS PRETENDING TO BE A KID, AND HE SNUCK INTO THE SCHOOL AND WENT TO CLASS
the kicker: this was not the first time this had happened at this BIZARRE-ASS SCHOOL. NOBODY WAS ACTUALLY *SURPRISED* ABOUT THIS.
My fave.
There is no Miss Zarves.
There is no nineteenth story.
Sorry.
The teacher got killed by being turned into an apple and the janitor ate her. The evil substitute who could hear thoughts through her third ear but who got cured if being evil after hearing a baby’s pure thoughts.
An interesting article by John McWhorter about “multiethnolects” that are developing in Europe:
If an adult immigrates to Germany, chances are that his or her German will always be imperfect. A language that, like German, forces you to remember that forks are feminine, spoons are masculine, and knives are neuter seems designed to resist anyone speaking it well if they learn it after adolescence. On the other hand, that immigrant’s children, growing up amid native German-speakers, will likely be able to speak perfect German. But they might also speak something else.
Quite commonly, in Germany a young person whose parents are Arabic- or Turkish-speaking immigrants will also speak a kind of German that sounds peculiar coming from someone who grew up speaking the language. In Standard German, “Tomorrow I’m going to the movies” is Morgen gehe ich ins Kino— “tomorrow go I in the movies.”
However, inner-city immigrants’ kids will often say among themselves Morgen ich geh Kino—“tomorrow I go movies”—almost as if they were English-speakers, quietly ironing out that kink in Standard German that forces you to say “tomorrow go I” instead of “tomorrow I go,” and just saying “movies” instead of “to the movies.” The result is something called Kiezdeutsch, which is the same whether the speaker’s parents communicate in Turkish, Arabic, Somali, or another language—the new dialect has gelled into something of its own.
Linguists are most excited by what MLE is doing to the rhythm of speech. English is usually spoken with a stress-timed rhythm, in which syllables are stressed at regular intervals. Speakers of MLE speak with a syllable-timed rhythm, in which all syllables are accorded roughly the same time and stress, as in French or Japanese. Syllable-timed speech is a characteristic of languages that have come into contact with other languages. Versions of it may have existed in multicultural places such as Hackney for centuries, thinks Mr Kerswill.
Kimchi and Justice 