Not Talking About Your Feelings is good …
Not Talking About Your Feelings is good for you.
Plurk! Gwan then. Plurk! Is it the new Twitter, or just the new Jaiku? Or, god forbid, the new Pownce, or whatever the hell that thing was called.
Comics about the quake in China. I suppose that makes it non-fiction, obviously supposed to be emotional and heart-wrenching, I think. Heartlessly, I think these comics are actually rather bad. Clumsy, sentimental, tedious -reading them distances me from the events they describe, makes everything less human and more annoying. Alan Moore did a small piece in a similar vein after 9/11 -it was called This Is Information and it seems to be completely unavailable on the internets now, apart from the opening panels- which was not particularly sophisticated but considerably better than this sort of would-be tearjerker cheesefest. Of course, he’s Alan Moore and it’s unfair to compare against him. OR IS IT? I am tired of the relentless relativism of mediocrity, the idea that we should be applauding cheesy, schmaltzy, maudlin rubbish because these people Tried So Hard. Speaking of which… were there tsunami comics? I hope not. Odds are they’d be like that terrible book that guy wrote.
Goosh, the Google shell, is outstandingly awesome. Now if only it was a downloadable shell.
