* Please send Robot 6 your MoCCA plans!

* Speaking of MoCCA and Robot 6, Alex Dueben’s got a pretty crackerjack list of comics-related activities attendees can partake in around the city, including a surprising number of plays and museum exhibits.

*Also on Robot 6: The Avengers/X-Men comics/movie conspiracy theory.

* Some dude named Andrew Lincoln will star as Rick Grimes in Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard’s The Walking Dead for AMC. That’s good to know, but it also gives me occasion to point out the relentlessly nudity-focused coverage of male casting announcements by my compadre Jason Adams.

* Well, how about that: On the list of cartoonists I expected to participate in Robert Goodin’s Covered blog, John Byrne was nowhere to be found. My mistake!

* So that’s what kobolds are!

* I guess watching this video for Kelis’s shamelessly button-pushing dance song “Acapella” is what watching a Fischerspooner video would be like if I were extremely attracted to Casey Spooner. (Via Tom Ewing.)

* Why I put off listening to this for this long I have no idea, but I am pretty much floored by the excellence of Brad Smith’s MOON8, a cover album of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon done in the style of an 8-bit video game soundtrack. Think of how good you think this will be–it’s that good. Since I’ve pretty much been mainlining this album and Super Mario games for the past year or so, this is some serious two-great-tastes shit for me. To be semi-serious for a sec, it’s also a fascinating combination of the nostalgic flavors: The video games of your childhood combined with the music of your adolescence (or whenever) which itself was likely the music of your parents’ adolescence (or whenever)…but screw being serious, it’s 8-bit “Us and Them”! (Via Topless Robot.)

* While you listen, be sure to pop in for one last look at last week’s Lost thoughts thread–and I’ll see you tonight for this week’s!

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