Meanwhile, in the actual content-producing sector
Er, which is more of that snark I said I was going to refrain from, as I imagine most people are as thrilled as I am at being labelled a "content producer,"
There's a new edition of Bookslut up, including a review of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America:
“We were tempted to begin this book by observing, ‘If y’all had’ve read the first book, we wouldn’t have to write this one.’ Cooler heads prevailed,” write Ivins and Dubose in the introduction. They’re exactly right. The predictions they made in Shrub by examining his stint in Texas politics came true in almost every way. In fact, they were understatements, but since Texas lacked a massive terrorist attack and the presence of John Ashcroft, it’s hard to fault them for missing one or two details.
And if you'd like to buy the book through them (by way of Amazon), that couldn't hurt either.
No idea how long the July edition of Sequential Tart has been up, but it is, and there's a piece on Death and the Female Character which has nothing to do with Neil Gaiman but does reference Gail Simone's Women in Refrigerators, if you encountered that site/notion recently when Anil Dash linked to it.
And speaking of comics, those listed in the New Comic Book Releases List should be hitting stores today.
Oh, and I somehow missed the announcement a few days ago at Boing Boing, but apparently there's a (the following link is to Fleshbot, is part of a Googlebomb campaign, and is quite possibly not safe for work - The Mgt.) War On Pornography going on. Which I did try tying into the NCRL thing by mentioning some of the listed publications, but the joke just wasn't working, and involved several other NSFW links. Sorry.
Comments
Aaron - have you looked at the new Firestorm iteration? I haven't taken the time yet (I've still got really GOOD books to catch up on -- hear that Priest? I'm still coming for your take on Cap, soon!), but I keep hearing rumblings about the characterization of the new "secret identity".
(No, I don't know much more than that, and won't have the time this week to go look either -- my wife's family reunion is this weekend, Fish Fry last night, banquet tonight, picnic tomorrow and church Sunday, followed by much collapsing and sleeping)
Posted by: mhking | July 9, 2004 8:53 AM
Full schedules are a good thing.
I picked up the first issue, and wasn't motivated to get any of the others. So it's entirely possible it's actually gotten interesting in the meantime. Jason, are you still getting that?
Posted by: Aaron | July 9, 2004 9:05 AM