* Have you pitched in to the Comics Comics fundraiser yet? I snagged myself three issues of Comics Comics, The Art of Hipgnosis and Overspray for a song. I mean, the shipping’s even free. Make sure to buy stuff today, because a lot of the offers are over as of midnight!
* How not to pitch to Secret Acres. I’d imagine this applies to virtually any publisher.
* Rich Juzwiak reveals the Manly Movie classic Over the Top. The phrase “a big fucking bear whose balls you can smell from your couch” is involved. MUST-READ
* Frank Santoro takes you behind the scenes of a drawing of the evil Senator Wastmor.
* I don’t like M.I.A. very much, so maybe it’s just my low expectations for her, but I don’t think this instantly infamous New York Times profile about which she has subsequently flipped out and tweeted the interviewer’s personal cell phone number is all that bad. “Pop Star Says Vapidly Provocative Things, Is a Doofus” is a dog bites man story if ever there was one. Then again, these things are all relative.
Ouch… I knew very little about her (although I did know about the Tigers) and that whole write-up is pretty much one big own goal. But like you say, why except anything better from a pop performer?
>>>>It had everything: artistic credibility, high drama, a massive audience. The baby would just have to wait. The combination of being nearly naked, hugely pregnant, singing incendiary lyrics and having the eyes of the world upon her was too much to resist. And she was riveting, upstaging the four much more famous guys and dominating the stage.