holy moly, but time just slips right through your fingers, doesn’t it? ten years ago today I came out to the world and the world was never the same …

Paul Gulacy - plates from his Black Widow portfolio (1982).

if but one comic book can be said to have taught me how to live …

it took me a couple episodes to figure out on my own but I got there. it may take me a while but I get to the bus stop on time …

holy moly, but time just slips right through your fingers, doesn’t it? ten years ago today I came out to the world and the world was never the same …

don’t look at me, I just recently figured out how much Ranma 1/2 hates Chinese people and that’s like forty years old

hell is empty and all the devils are here

there’s a fourth and fifth, two.

Album #3 didn’t sound like it was recorded in a gas station bathroom and it came stacked with solid tunes. but people had moved on from that moment. the masses weren’t in the mood to forgive a prickly sophomore slump because the music industry was dying. but we remember, yes. this is a baller LP.

the more years pass the more viscerally I feel, like a fishhook in the guts, that this second album was a test and we as a people failed

the more years pass the more viscerally I feel, like a fishhook in the guts, that this second album was a test and we as a people failed

decided to make some hamburger steaks - “Salisbury” steaks if you’re fancy - but forgot the most crucial step: you have to touch the meat with your actual fingies to do that.

folks, I finally threw out an old pair of underwear with a big hole in them, and I’m even doing my best to squelch that little voice in my head that thinks I let them down somehow

are we really old enough to be doing the polite semi acoustic arrangements live album for the sad people hits of the 00s oh yeah shit we kind of are god damn it fuck

Today is the birthday of Ira Schnapp (Oct. 10, 1894-July 24, 1969). A letterer and logo designer, he refined the Superman logo w/ Superman #6 (1940) and designed logos for the Flash, JLA, Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, & more. He also designed house ads & the stamp for the Comics Code Authority.

in which we journey to a paranoid dystopian future that doesn’t look all that different from the world outside our window - is that a good thing? perhaps - and just hear me out here, I recognize this a stretch - it is we who are not doing OK.