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If anyone is/was into comics, the excerpt, at least, is a killer... An excerpt of Sean Howe's 'Marvel Comics, The Untold Story' http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8433000/view/full/an-excerpt-sean-howe-marvel-comics-untold-story&src=longreads An excerpt from Howe's new book on how internal arguments, drugs, failed feminism, and the exploitation of minority characters in comic books and the freelance writers and artists who drew them, changed Marvel Comics during the late '60s and early '70s: "'I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam,' said Starlin, whose hobbies included motorcycles, chess, and lysergic acid diethylamide–25. 'Each one of those stories was me taking that stuff that had gone before and trying to put my personal slant on it. Mar-Vell was a warrior who decided he was going to become a god, and that's where his trip was.' In the pages of Captain Marvel, existence itself might be altered several times in the course of an issue. 'There is a moment of change, then reality becomes a thing of the past!' howls the evil ruler Thanos, before everything morphs into funhouse-mirror images. His sworn enemy Drax responds: 'My mind and my soul are one — my soul — an immortal intangible, nothing and everything! That which cannot die cannot be enslaved, for only with fear is servitude rendered!' On the following page, Drax's shifting realities are represented by thirty-five panels of warped faces, skulls, eyes, stars, and lizards. Captain Marvel had practically become a black-light poster with dialogue. Its sales kept increasing. Soon Starlin was opening his fan mail and finding complimentary joints sent by grateful, mind-blown readers."

Loveless can sound great/horrible depending on setup. Here...

Which is number one in that 'Holmes inspired' list?

Sounds fun. Have a blast.

Anyone else watching the O'Reilly-Stewart "debate" in a few hours? http://www.therumble2012.com/

A good Saturday morning listen...

Are there BHSE color example photos? Need to live through others gear adventures. My day probably sounds boring to anyone without a baby around, but... Played hooky. No family responsibilities or work for most of the day. Breakfast at my favorite breakfast spot, a couple Eagle Rare Manhattans this morning, then off to a movie in an actual theater (The Master - see the drinks were a theme), distant drive to get best cheesesteak for lunch, then spun some vinyl, took a long nap, read pages and pages without interruptions, now sipping on some more Eagle Rare. A good mental health day.

Long it is. Proportions would work work well with some of the Stax amps. Wish I had it and the 007t II at the same time.

Missed this earlier. It's a good one (as is much of Theroux). Me: Jon by George Saunders http://buff.ly/QBTmL0 "Back in the time of which I am speaking, due to our Coördinators had mandated us, we had all seen that educational video of "It's Yours to Do With What You Like!" in which teens like ourselfs speak on the healthy benefits of getting off by oneself and doing what one feels like in terms of self-touching, which what we learned from that video was, there is nothing wrong with self-touching, because love is a mystery but the mechanics of love need not be, so go off alone, see what is up, with you and your relation to your own gonads, and the main thing is, just have fun, feeling no shame! And then nightfall would fall and our facility would fill with the sounds of quiet fast breathing from inside our Privacy Tarps as we all experimented per the techniques taught us in "It's Yours to Do With What You Like!" and what do you suspect, you had better make sure that that little gap between the main wall and the sliding wall that slides out to make your Gender Areas is like really really small. Which guess what, it wasn't. That is all what I am saying. Also all what I am saying is, who could blame Josh for noting that gap and squeezing through it snakelike in just his Old Navy boxers that Old Navy gave us to wear for gratis, plus who could blame Ruthie for leaving her Velcro knowingly un-Velcroed?"

Mooaaar Gangnum...

In case anyone is looking for a lamp - The Mixtape. http://fab.com/sale/11177/

New ModBooks almost out. Only $3,500. Who's in? http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/03/modbook-pro-gets-priced-at-3-500-as-pre-orders-begin/

I'm confused.

7% of Americans think Lee Harvey Oswald shot Lincoln. 1% think Michael Tilson Thomas did it. http://theatln.tc/SY6Jc6

Q: How much useful information is below? Smartphones for audiophiles: is the iPhone 5 more musical than its rivals? http://m.engadget.com/2012/10/02/iphone-vs-rivals-audio-tests/

More Gangnum...

Great. That and The Dreamers sure gets a lot of play around here. You may want to check that one out too.

A couple interesting reads for the trip... http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/gangnam-style-dissected-the-subversive-message-within-south-koreas-music-video-sensation/261462/ http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/growing-up-gangnam-style-what-the-seoul-neighborhood-was-really-like/262770/

Sonny Rollins with Al, Claire and Mikey last night. Sonnys not bad at all.

I'm behind on the DAC front, but new and I've heard... no. There are a couple used over at HF also.