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January 2014
January 22, 2014
January 10, 2014
GWEEK PODCAST 128
I had a lot of fun doing another Gweek podcast. Mark Frauenfelder is always cool to talk to, and I had a great time podcast-meeting A.J. Jacobs, who was really interesting and funny. We talked about:
- when Mickey Mouse was mean;
- an idiot-proof way to compose music on you iPhone;
- Bill de Blasio's dream of bringing NYC back to its "Warriors"-era glory;
- Bear Baiting;
- the defintion of family, and how it relates to a Giant Mousetrap;
- 3-D printing food; and
- more, obviously.
My one regret is that I didn't ask a follow up question on 3-D printed food, which I still don't get. It seems like if you're going to use it to feed a starving country, the key is to get the INGREDIENTS to that country, not process them through a contraption to make it a funny shape.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN.
January 09, 2014
January 06, 2014
RECOMMONDAY
I kind of love Sting's new album, The Last Ship. It's the story, in songs that evoke old English folk songs, of various characters who live in a dying shipbuilding town, and Sting often sings in character, doing voices and accents. Every time I think it may lapse into laughability or pretension, it overcomes that by becoming more clever and more beautiful.
TOM THE DANCING BUG ON MEDIUM MONDAYS
So the great news is that editorial cartoonist Matt Bors has started a comics site on Medium.com, called The Nib, and today it takes a turn to become more structured, more extensive, and more awesome. Among the otherwise great work Matt has assembled, Tom the Dancing Bug will be appearing every Monday, starting today.
More info, including the roster and schedule here. Check it out.
I'm really glad to be part of this really cool project.
January 03, 2014
CLASSIC TOM THE DANCING BUG
For the next four weeks, the Classic Tom the Dancing Bug page will feature a four-chapter story from 1993 featuring Charley the Australopithecine: "Pliocene Park." Back then, I'd often do multi-part stories, and it was pretty fun.
Part 1 is here.