WORD IS VIRUS

[wordisvirus]

ENG 102 students: we will begin blogging about Dave Eggers’ The Circle over the last month of class. Be sure to tag all your posts with the hashtag included on the assignment so I can easily follow your blog.

[kqedscience]

This bird might look like a holiday ornament, but it is actually a rare half-female, half-male northern cardinal

“Researchers have long known such split-sex “gynandromorphs” exist in insects, crustaceans, and birds. But scientists rarely get to extensively study a gynandromorph in the wild; most published observations cover just a day or so. Observers got to follow this bird, however, for more than 40 days between December 2008 and March 2010.”

Learn more at Science.

[npr]

What a fascinating ornithological find! -Emily

[sesamestreet]

Happy birthday, Jim Henson. We miss you.

[npr]

At Jim Henson’s funeral, the Muppets (and their human handlers) sang his favorite songs (h/t NPR’s Fresh Air Tumblr)

[wordisvirus]

"Oh crap!" The awesome Hellboy set @sarablumberg got me years ago on proud display in my office.

[fantagraphics]

witzend by Wallace Wood and various artists

656-page black & white/color 9” x 12.5” x 2.75” two-volume slipcased hardcover set • $125.00 ISBN: 978-1-60699-744-4

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When the formulaic constraints, censorious nature, and onerous lack of creators’ rights in mainstream comics got to be too much for the brilliant cartoonist Wallace Wood in 1966, he struck out on his own with the self-published witzend. It became a haven for Wood and his fellow professional cartoonist friends where they could produce the kind of personal work that they wanted to do, without regard to commercial demands — and with friends like Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, Ralph Reese, Archie Goodwin, Angelo Torres, Steve Ditko, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Art Spiegelman, Don Martin, Vaughn Bodé, Jim Steranko, Jeff Jones, Howard Chaykin, Trina Robbins, Bernie Wrightson, and literally dozens more, it was bound to be a great ride! Now, Fantagraphics presents the complete run of witzend in this beautiful slipcased two-volume set with a special introduction by Bill Pearson and a history by Patrick Rosenkranz.

[wordisvirus]

Awesome effect when you scroll this post slowly in your dashboard!

[albotas]

AMAZING VIDEO GAME CONSOLE MODS BY VADU AMKA

Vadu Amka is a Belgian artist who repairs and customizes retro video game hardware. Click through for over thirty of some of the most amazing custom consoles you will ever have the pleasure of laying your eyeballs upon.

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[thebristolboard]

Original Nancy Sunday newspaper strip by Ernie Bushmiller, published by United Feature Syndicate, October 8, 1978.

[comicsalliance]

Sloan Leong Draws Ladies with Scars and Swords - Including ‘Kill Bill: The Next Generation’ [Art]

[wordisvirus]

Definite Paul Pope vibe here. I'm into it!

[wordisvirus]

Hope y'all like pumpkins in August.

[wordisvirus]

After baking for 25 min with PB/Tamari/Garlic coating, cover in your favorite BBQ sauce in grill it up!

[wordisvirus]

Seemed weird at first, but it’s actually pretty rad. Tofu with PB, tamari and garlic coating. Once baked on, it’ll get BBQ sauce and grilled.

[projectqueer]

Myrtle Beach, S.C., passes far-reaching LGBT protections

Leaders in one of South Carolina’s most popular beach resort city amended their human rights ordinance on Tuesday evening, including far-reaching LGBT-inclusive protections on everything from public accommodations to education.

The new protections were passed without objection by the six-member council.

[shinji--moon-deactivated2017123]

I have flipped through books, reading hundreds of opening and closing lines, across ages, across cultures, across aesthetic schools, and I have discovered that first lines are remarkably similar, even repeated, and that last lines are remarkably similar, even repeated. Of course in all cases they remain remarkably distinct, because the words belong to completely different poems. And I began to realize, reading these first and last lines, that there are not only the first and last lines of the lifelong sentence we each speak but also the first and last lines of the long piece of language delivered to us by others, by those we listen to. And in the best of all possible lives, that beginning and that end are the same: in poem after poem I encountered words that mark the first something made out of language that we hear as children repeated night after night, like a refrain: I love you. I am here with you. Don’t be afraid. Go to sleep now. And I encountered words that mark the last something made out of language that we hope to hear on earth: I love you. You are not alone. Don’t be afraid. Go to sleep now. But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising. Among Emily Dickinson’s last words (in a letter). A woman whom everyone thought of as shut-in, homebound, cloistered, spoke as if she had been out, exploring the earth, her whole life, and it was finally time to go in. And it was.

"On Beginnings," Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey 

(via commovente)

Reading this book now, it’s great.

(via markrichardson)

[albotas]

CUPHEAD [E3 2014]

Quite possibly the most visually interesting looking gaming shown so far today, Cuphead is a run-and-gun shooter with a 1930’s cartoon art style reminiscent of such classics as Felix the Cat, Popeye, and Betty Boop. The game is being developed by StudioMDHR for Xbox One and Steam. All the art is hand drawn, all the music is original jazz recordings, and it even has co-op.

Check out the Cuphead E3 2014 trailer below.

[wordisvirus]

Wow

[wordisvirus]

There’s a hashtag on my dunkies, as I write up my research project on social media in higher education.

[davidmalki]

"Former relationship expert Ryan North takes you on a truth-spittin’, no-holds-barred journey through the frontiers of the genderclash…Finally daring to describe fundamental natural laws that the P.C. police (and Obama-style self-appointed guardians of ‘politeness’) would rather be forgotten!

"Learn about:

• The 12 Rules Of Power Play (Hint: There’s more than 12!)

• What Penguins Do In Private – And Why We Don’t Do The Same (Anymore)

• Five ‘Magic’ Words That Guarantee She’ll Never Forget You, Ever

• The Rule Of Archimedes – In The Bedroom And The Boardroom And The Boardwalk And Park Place, Too…If You Want It, Take It!

• Wandering Womb Syndrome – Ancient Myth Or Mere Superstition? Or Something More?

• Giving Her The ‘Secret Loyalty Test’ – Before She Gives It To You

• Beat Any Paternity Suit! How To Microwave Your DNA – For Good

• Nineteen Spam-Filter-Beating Synonyms For ‘Misandry’ That Have Increasingly Cruel Connotations

• How To Deserve Any Job You Want – From Birth

• ‘I Can’t Be An Asshole If I’m Right’ – Proving This Old Maxim With Ironclad Logic

• The #1 Haircut For Getting Married – And Staying Married, If That’s What You Want

• I’m Sorry, But You Should Never Apologize. And That’s A Canadian Speaking!”

[ BOOKWAR ]

[ryannorth]

This book is a HORRIBLE LIE.  Just horrible.  I did not write this book.

The book I wrote was called NOT ALL POKÉMEN and was a documentary about Pokémon and the men who catch them (they call themselves “Pokémen”)

(but it was only about some of them, because there are a lot of Pokémen out there and I was up against a deadline)

ALSO FOR THE RECORD THERE IS ONLY ONE KIND OF -ANDRY I’M INTERESTED IN, AND IT IS

[BOOKWAR]

[jellybit]