IT’s Harvey Pekar Appreciation Day at the Choppin’ Blog.
Harvey is the all-American anti-hero. He is best known for his long-running auto-biographical comic book, American Splendor, which was the basis for the 2003 Cannes award winning film of the same name.
In his comics, he details the mundane minutiae of Our Man, your basic blue-collar nudnik a-workin’ his crappy fileclerk job, scraping together bucks for his jazz LP collection, living off a steady diet of peanut butter and soda.
He doesn’t draw himself; he writes a script and blocks it out in frames with stick figures. The actual illustration has been done by the likes of R. Crumb and many other baddass artists.
Anyhoo, here’s a coupla audio things with Harvey. An interview on On Point (ca.9 min). And a conversation on Wad’ya Know? (at 11 minutes).

To mark the birthday of Lewis Carroll, here’s The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits. Very funny.

The answer is “C”. It seems counter-intuitive, seeing as the bulk of the text belabours the fact that HD films are too large for a single normal DVD, but there you have it. The amount of improvement perceivable when watching an HD-DVD film versus conventional DVD film on an HD-TV screen is minimal. At least, that’s what the text said.

I felt so under the weather today I could hardly finish a sentence. And I thought this was funny: {{popup cubab.jpg cubab 653×273}}Cubic Cliche Comix.

I’m sick today. Spent the better part of Sunday and Monday in my bunk. But we will still have our test on Wednesday. Just don’t give me any crap.

Oh boy. Just look at it coming down. It’s the first really good snow of the year.

We’re still having the test tomorrow, so dress warmly.

The Books. Precocious homemade music using a guitar and some sound editing software. And here is a story about them from public radio.

Cough…

Well Joshua Herbert Walker Christ on a pogostick. Apparently, some believe that Spongebob is light in his loafers. It must be nice to have so much time on one’s hands to create such a paranoid delerious reality that one even suspects innocuous cartoon characters are out to bugger them.

update: another story posted where you don’t have to sign in. If you scroll down you can watch the video in question.

update update: I watched video in question–it starts at around 2 minutes–and I don’t think it turned me gay. But I also just noticed that if I just got some new curtains this room would look fabulooous.

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
Someone was killed, ‘neath the town hall light

(more…)