Thinking that changing the color scheme on your blog will somehow help the protestors in Iran has to be the wankiest thing I’ve heard since … well, since about anything that came out of the rightwing wankosphere circa 2003.
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June 16, 2009
Deep thought
Thinking that changing the color scheme on your blog will somehow help the protestors in Iran has to be the wankiest thing I’ve heard since … well, since about anything that came out of the rightwing wankosphere circa 2003. posted by
Tom Tomorrow
at 3:49 PM | link
New cartoon
Clear-eyed conservative realism translated into English. posted by
Tom Tomorrow
at 11:02 AM | link
June 15, 2009
The infinitely receding future
On Mondays, the Times’ business section often focuses on the declining fortunes of the various journalistic and creative enterprises which we collectively describe as “media.” It’s invariably a depressing start to the week:
Paying in “exposure” is how underfunded and/or miserly publications have wheedled free art out of illustrators for a very long time. The logic goes like this: we can’t afford to pay you, but your work will be exposed to someone who can. Exposure is the bottom rung on the ladder, one step toward a career in which people value the work you do enough to pay you for it. The problem is when you reach the very top of the ladder and the same argument is being used. Where exactly are you supposed to go from there? And as artists are fond of pointing out, the local grocery store is unlikely to accept “exposure” in payment for a gallon of milk. As another artist in the article notes: “I have done gift cards for Target that are in stores nationwide and animations for Nickelodeon that run 24 hours a day worldwide on cable TV … both of these jobs were high-profile and gave my work great exposure but both clients still paid me.” posted by
Tom Tomorrow
at 8:43 AM | link
June 14, 2009
Music notes
1. Saw Eddie Vedder play solo in Philly over the weekend. I know there are still various dates upcoming on the tour — no idea if tickets are available anywhere, but if you can go, you should. It’s an awesome show. (This is, of course, a biased assessment, given my recent work with and for Pearl Jam. But it’s also true!) 2. Neil Young’s PR people were kind enough to send a set of the discs from his new Archives release. I haven’t had a moment to listen to any of it yet, but it goes without saying that it’s a must-have for fans of Neil. We’ve been waiting for this release for, what, about twenty years now? Anyway more info here. (The discs came without any of the packaging or extras, so I can’t tell you anything about any of that…) posted by
Tom Tomorrow
at 3:46 PM | link
June 13, 2009
I Don’t Get It
As we know, Juan Cole is an “anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist, an apologist for radical Islam” who “peddles Hamas propaganda.” Obviously if he were Iranian, he would have just voted for Ahmadinejad while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” And yet today he’s written extensively about the evidence the election in Iran was just stolen by the country’s Islamic theocracy. I’m confused. It’s like the world’s turned upside down! posted by
Jonathan Schwarz
at 9:03 PM | link
June 11, 2009
Substantive!
From Time’s embarassing “please buy our magazine”
And what could be more substantive … than a suspension bridge made of pebbles! posted by
Tom Tomorrow
at 9:44 AM | link
June 9, 2009
New cartoon
How they view abortion in the rightwingoverse. posted by
Tom Tomorrow
at 8:57 AM | link
Perpetually disingenuous
Leaving aside the likelihood that Sotomayor would have had the opportunity to enter college in the late fifties, note the weaselly phrasing Brooks employs. If she’d “entered college” in the late fifties, early sixties … if she’d “entered Princeton and Yale” in the eighties. See the thing is, Yale didn’t admit women until 1969. Brooks knows this, but it undercuts his thesis, so he tries to distract the audience with a clumsy rhetorical sleight of hand. And as with a bad magician, the clumsiness becomes more compelling than the illusion he’s attempting to create. posted by
Tom Tomorrow
at 8:54 AM | link
June 6, 2009
They Also Serve Who Only Take French and Play Baseball
Today the news is filled with remembrances of the heroism of the soldiers who stormed the beach at Normandy. But why have we as a society forgotten the heroism of those who, on that terrible day, took French classes and played baseball in the afternoon? This question is particularly piquant for me because my grandfather was one of these heroes. Here’s the cover of his journal from World War II:
And here’s his entry for June 6th, 1944:
Just imagining what it was like for those young men gives me chills. (He did end up in France ten days later.) posted by
Jonathan Schwarz
at 3:21 PM | link
June 2, 2009
Now it can be (partly) told
So, one of the things I’ve been keeping busy with over the past few months, along with finishing up the children’s book, has been working on some artwork for Pearl Jam. Had to stay quiet about it until now, and I still can’t say too much about it, but I do want to note that the image that Conan held up tonight was only part of a greater whole — it wasn’t the finished album cover. And apart from saying that working with the band has been an utterly fantastic experience, that’s probably most of what I can share at this point.
posted by
Tom Tomorrow
at 1:25 AM | link
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