You can count on good, ol’ Robert Crumb to always find something to complain about. Here he takes exception to having his art seen framed on walls, instead of printed in a book.
There was an exhibition of Crumb art in Boston a couple of years ago. I wrote about it here.
Last night we did something we very rarely do on a weeknight, by firing up the video projector to watch a movie. Has it already been ten years since the excellent film adaptation of the Ghost World comic book? It was Scarlett Johansson’s breakthrough role, but I don’t understand why it seemed to put the brakes on Thora Birch’s career, because she’s outstanding as Enid.
Ghost World has one of the more memorable movie openers, by featuring this outrageous dance number from a 1965 Bollywood flick called Gumnaam.
If only I’d read the warning label for my Superman costume, I’d have known it wouldn’t make me invulnerable or give me the ability to fly, and I could have avoided a few bullet holes and broken bones.
I’m a week late with this post. Reading Dilbert in last Sunday’s comics, it’s apparent to me that either Scott Adams has been away from high tech work too long, or he decided to avoid mentioning virtual servers.
Today, if a server’s operating system has a problem that’s bad enough you’ve given up on it, you simply blow away the virtual machine it’s running on, and assign its database drive(s) to another virtual server. Recovering the data isn’t necessary unless the problem on the server corrupted or damaged the database, in which case you restore it from a backup copy. Redeploying an old server doesn’t apply, because it was on a virtual machine. But maybe Dilbert’s company is out of date and still runs only physical servers, in which case there’s all the more reason to wonder how it stays in business.
Comics fans will immediately recognize what Google has for its logo today.
If you don’t know who the logo tributes, click the image and you’ll find out. (We’ll ignore the movie that Frank Miller directed a couple of years ago.)
Right now, Monte Schulz is at Warwicks, a bookstore in La Jolla, CA. Monte’s new book, The Last Rose of Summer is out, and I have my copy, although I’m 3,000 miles from La Jolla, so I won’t be able to get Monte’s autograph on it. I’ll be reading it as soon as I am through a couple of non-fiction books. I prefer to read novels without having any other books in progress. Monte owns the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference, which this year is being held June 18-23 in, you guessed it, Santa Barbara.
On the Peanuts side of the Schulz family, which is run by Monte’s brother Craig, there is a new DVD coming out, and a graphic novel, the first Peanuts publication from the Kaboom! arm of BOOM! Studios.
You may recall that Charles Schulz never had an assistant helping him with the comic strip, but that did not hold for the Peanuts comic books from DELL (before there was a computer company by the same name), and later Gold Key. Jim Sasseville, then Dale Hale, worked with Schulz on those comics. D.F. Rogers has a great idea, that Nat Gertler should put together the complete collection of Peanuts comic books. High quality color scans from the original comics would be great.
I haven’t checked eBay lately, but I assume there are still sketches being offered that sellers claim are by Charles M. Schulz, but are obvious fakes. Here’s a sketch that looks like it might be genuine. The owner asked a newspaper columnist for an estimate of what it’s worth, and assuming it was done by Schulz I think he’s wrong about the personalized autograph holding down the value of the piece.
