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"Do Follow" Blog Directory Categories bailouts financial crisis how to get rich investment plan unemployed Recent Posts Five Simple Rules to Get Rich and the Proof They Work Javelin Marketing: Unemployed? Then Don’t Look for a Job No Pain Javelin Marketing: Booms and Busts Create This Oppotunity Javelin Marketing: Financial Crisis is Not Temporary Calendar November 2008 M T W T F S S « Oct   Dec »  12 3456789 10111213141516 17181920212223 24252627282930 Pages About Archives May 2009 February 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 Tagsbailouts boom bust cavet emptor Chinese capitalism Chinese economy fee based accounts fee based advisor financial crisis financiaol crisis get rich investment opportunity make money portfolio management stocks to invest unemployed Technorati Profile Blogroll Annuities Annuity Leads Insurance Leads Javelin Marketing Javelin Marketing Commentary Javelin Marketing Comments Javelin Marketing Contacts Javelin Marketing Downloads Javelin Marketing Employment Javelin Marketing Guarantee Javelin Marketing Listing Javelin Marketing Press Javelin Marketing Reading Javelin Marketing Resources Retirement Income Javelin Marketing: Booms and Busts Create This Oppotunity by admin ~ November 21st, 2008. Filed under: investment plan. Markets over shoot themselves in both directions to too high and too low.  You have seen the dot-com boom and bust in 2001and you have seen the housing bubble form 2000 to 2006 and then bust.  Now you see the financial crisis which, just as home values went beyond the price where people could buy, will take home values and stock prices below any reasonable price thereby creating the investment opportunity of a lifetime.  In a minute, we reveal which stocks to invest in. Of course, most will be too timid to take this investment opportunity in the midst of a financial crisis.  Most investors want to follow what everyone else does and that’s why we have booms and busts.  But some smart people will buy up assets and get rich–the same as happened in the Depression. You can only grab this investment opportunity if you have cash or are generating cash.  If you generate enough income to save each month, invest into mutual funds with a systematic investment program.  If you have cash, invest in stocks that cannot fail. Stocks to invest: Citicorp, Bank of America and JP Morgan.  The US Government has no choice but to keep these institutions alive and privately owned and will go to all lengths to support them.  These three institutions are the spine of the financial system.  Other no-brainer stock investments are supermarkets (people have to eat and buy MORE from supermarkets in a bad economy as they eat out less), movie theatre chains or production companies (the cheapest form of entertainment is movies and attendance and purchase of movies thrive in a bad economy), consumer product companies like Proctor and Gamble (people still keep buying Tide to wash their clothes).  You get the idea. Invest ins stocks that produce products and services that are absolutely essential and economically insensitive.  Even these stocks are at records lows for no logical reason.  and that’s the beauty of a bust–while everyone else is illogical, those that are rational get rich. Your timing is not critical.  Even if you buy early and prices fall further, you’re buying quality merchandise while its price has overshot true value to the downside.  Hesitate or get rich. Listen to this post Bookmark It « Javelin Marketing: Financial Crisis is Not Temporary No Pain » 2 Responses to Javelin Marketing: Booms and Busts Create This Oppotunity

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Then Don’t Look for a Job No Pain Javelin Marketing: Booms and Busts Create This Oppotunity Javelin Marketing: Financial Crisis is Not Temporary Calendar May 2009 M T W T F S S « Feb      123 45678910 11121314151617 18192021222324 25262728293031 Pages About Archives May 2009 February 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 Tagsbailouts boom bust cavet emptor Chinese capitalism Chinese economy fee based accounts fee based advisor financial crisis financiaol crisis get rich investment opportunity make money portfolio management stocks to invest unemployed Technorati Profile Blogroll Annuities Annuity Leads Insurance Leads Javelin Marketing Javelin Marketing Commentary Javelin Marketing Comments Javelin Marketing Contacts Javelin Marketing Downloads Javelin Marketing Employment Javelin Marketing Guarantee Javelin Marketing Listing Javelin Marketing Press Javelin Marketing Reading Javelin Marketing Resources Retirement Income Five Simple Rules to Get Rich and the Proof They Work by admin ~ May 26th, 2009. Filed under: how to get rich. Rule #1: Don’t be Stupid Anyone that runs up credit card debt is stupid.  How can you ever get rich paying someone else 20% interest?  The way to get rich is to have other people pay YOU 20% interest.  But you can never have that happen when you have no money to lend out or invest. If you don’t have common sense or have common sense but cannot follow it, give up now. Common sense and the avoidance of stupid behavior is the number one rule to get rich. Rule #2: Live Within Your Means  ANYONE and EVERYONE can live within their means.  My mother lived comfortably in a 2 bedroom apartment the last 10 years of her life on $20,000 a year. That included going out to eat  occasionally and going to the movies. You say that you can’t live comfortably on what you earn and feed 6 kids?  Then who told you to have 6 kids? See rule number 1.  It’s not about what you think you deserve, it’s about what you earn.  If you want more things, then you need to earn more.  If you don’t know how to do that then it’s time to sell the house and rent, get a roommate, move to Mexico–whatever you need to do to reduce your living expenses.  That includes selling the BMW and driving a 15 year old car that costs only $3,000 to buy but runs just fine.  If you think you cannot reduce your living expenses, then rent a copy of “Pursuit of Happiness” and watch it.   Rule #3: Exploit the Opportunities Created by People who Cannot Follow Rules One and Two  I did not say exploit those people, I said exploit the opportunities they create.  Example–people who can’t afford the house they are in often don’t pay their property tax.  Many municipalities need the money so they sell a lien against the person’s house to investors.  The investor (could be you) eventually either gets 18% interest plus your principal (if the homeowner eventually pays the tax bill) or gets the home.  You can never exploit these opportunities unless you have money to invest which means you need to follow rules one and two, first.   Rule #4: Constantly Learn About Ways to Make Money   They don’t teach this in a class.  You need to read magazines (e.g. Money, Smart Money, a dozen  other similar magazines) or do searches on the Internet.  It’s more difficult to get rich if you do what everyone else does–invest in stocks and bonds and mutual funds. If you don’t like to, or are  unwilling to, read and learn, you’ll have to get very lucky to get rich–a long shot.  It’s much easier to be smart because then you only need a little luck.   Rule #5: Be Willing to Change Direction   There’s really bad advice that’s given out like “Don’t give up” and “Be persistent.”  Generally, this is bad advice because it keeps people doing the same wrong activities thinking they will eventually be successful.  If you screw in a light bulb by turning to the left, it will never go in no matter how persistent you are.  Let the universe teach you.  If you’re doing something wrong, you won’t get the result you want.  The universe tells you when you are doing the right things and the wrong things. No matter how persistent you are with the wrong activities, you still  won’t have success. So if you try an activity and don’t get the result you want, change direction, do something differently.   What’s the proof these rules work?  Read the biography (doesn’t need to be a whole book–there are tons of articles on the Internet) on any one you see is successful.  Pick any successful sports figure, business person or politician.  Names that come to mind are Mark Cuban, Donald Trump, Dana White, Barack Obama.  But pick your own favorites, read how they got successful and rich and prove to yourself these five simple rules work. Listen to this post Bookmark It « Javelin Marketing: Unemployed? Then Don’t Look for a Job 9 Responses to Five Simple Rules to Get Rich and the Proof They Work

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Follow me on Twitter! Dont Trust This Guy why not take my word for it? A blog by Jim Jeffers Encouraged Commentary Recently, I’ve begun an expedition with jQuery . My first major experiment has been in improving the commenting system on this blog. Sparked by an email discussion with Tomas Carrillo I’ve implemented a handful of small interactions which make it much easier for you to get involved in the conversation. Update! I’ve added detailed directions on how to get this system setup on your own blog. Azra Raskin demonstrates how ubiquity can be done with only a mouse. Reusing a Good Idea How does it work? Well the primary premise is based off a design pattern that Aza Raskin demonstrated with Ubiquity . Simply highlight any text in the body of this post and a ‘Respond’ bubble should fade in near your mouse. As in Ubiquity, the bubble maintains a low opacity in order to be fairly unobtrusive unless you mouse over it. Clicking the respond button scrolls you to the comment box where it is now populated with an html blockquote of the selected text. Now you can type your comment easily and immediately whilst quoting the article. This works even nicer within comments. If you select any text within a comment the ‘Respond’ bubble will appear here as well. This time however, a directive ‘@author name’ link is generated for you in addition to the blockquote. It’s that easy to respond directly to a given comment! Jason Santa Maria wrote a post earlier last month on the hassles of dealing with large discussion threads . More Controls Within Comments But why not take it a step further? After all, discussion goes back and forth. Sometimes you may want to follow a specific comment author to find out what else they said, or maybe you want to easily find responses aimed at a specific comment. I’ve implemented a simple set of lists that appear adjacent to a given comment if applicable content was found. These navigational lists are intended to allow you to jump between related comments and responses quickly. In addition to scrolling - the targeted comment is highlighted for you. Last but not least, when you mouse over any comment you will be presented with two faded controls in its top left corner. These alternatives to the text highlighting utility explained earlier allow you to reply or quote another author without highlighting any text. Click on the ‘reply’ control and you simply target that comment. Click on the ‘quote’ control and the entire comment (sans embedded block quotes) is quoted for you. Similar to the highlighting technique except this method quotes the entire comment instead of a specific selection. Get the Source and Contribute While I just hacked this code together in jQuery. I want anyone to feel free to use it on their blogs. I’m not going to attempt to create some kind of plugin. Each implementation will be too specific and require too much thought for a generic plugin. Instead I have setup a public repository on github so that anyone who would like to use this technique on their own site can go ahead and adjust the source for their own purposes. If you are handy with javascript and would like to extend this idea, modify it, rewrite it in another javascript framework, or make it easier for others to redeploy - you are more than welcome to feel free to fork away. Access the ‘Encouraged Commentary’ Project on GitHub. Sorting & Single Tiered Threading As an experiment to help make the conversation flow more naturally the script now sorts responses after their parent and marks them as a response. This keeps everything decently sorted and prevents excessive layers of responses. Jan 04 2009 Jim Jeffers 193 comments 193 Responses to This Article.

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Follow me on Twitter! Dont Trust This Guy why not take my word for it? A blog by Jim Jeffers Getting Started With Encouraged Commentary Since interest in this idea has taken off so much I revised the encouraged commentary script so that it would be more flexible for public use. You can toggle on or off pretty much and of the main features. I’ve explained in depth how to get it setup on your blog/website. Encouraged commentary will work in wordpress, textpattern, moveable type, typo, mephisto, drupal, expression engine, etc.. There is no plugin required. You just have to make some minor changes to the HTML markup in your theme or template files. To get started: Grab the source code from github. View the Wiki for detailed directions. Jan 10 2009 Jim Jeffers 14 comments 14 Responses to This Article.

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Giveaway: Sin City Blu-ray!
By Great White Snark | April 13, 2009
Because Buena Vista Home Entertainment wants to make Mickey Rourke’s ugly mug available in 1080p HD to anyone who wants to see it, BVHE is releasing the Sin City Blu-ray next April 21. Plus, since it’s on Blu-ray, so you get fancy-pantsy extras like: All new Cine-Explore - Innovative Blu-ray technology allows viewers to experience a uniquely interactive visual commentary that pushes the envelope. When selected, see picture-in-picture green screen footage and original art synced with the filmmakers’ commentary. You know what that means, right?  Jessica Alba’s exotic dance routine (i.e., stripper dance) without all the distracting background and scenery!  Worth the price of admission, people.  (Which, you know… happens to be “free” in this case.) To sign up to win a copy of Sin City on Blu-ray: If you haven’t already, get an e-mail subscription to Great White Snark. It won’t cost you nuthin’. Leave a comment on this post. In the “Mail (will not be published)” field, enter the same e-mail address of your subscription, so I know who you are. In the comment, indicate whether you think Frank Miller is our friend or foe, and cite your strongest piece of supporting evidence. I’ll select the winner at random and announce them in an update to this post next Tuesday, April 21. UPDATE: Tiina–who has positivity and an “i” to spare–takes it home. One entry per person. and remember, cheaters never prosper, because I’ve got your IP address, people: duplicate entries are dopey entries. Winners outside the forty-eight contiguous U.S. states pay shipping. Because this ain’t a money tree, it’s just a plain ol’ blog. Netflix - Only $4.99 a month! No Late Fees. Try it for Free! Enjoy this post? Subscribe to Great White Snark by email or by RSS.
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...With Bite - Curiosities, Humor, and Entertainment ......Costumes Gallery - Days 3 and 4 Twitter Link Roundup -......(12) Cakes (87) Cartoons (30) Comics (95) Contests (57) Conventions and Events (79) Costumes (26) Crafts and Hacks......(125) Offbeat News (32) Star Wars (94) Steals and Deals (41) Tattoos (34) Technology (36) Toys (55) TV......Costumes Gallery - Days 3 and 4 Follow Me Online Facebook Fan......Edition on Blu-ray last week, and I’ve got a shiny, new......scenes video, BD-Live™ enabled games and extra content for internet-connected players,......extra content for internet-connected players, and audio commentary with 26 cast......members including director James Cameron and co-writer William Wisher. Plus, it’s enhanced......the comment, create a title and tagline for the sequel to......select the winner at random and announce them in an update......2. UPDATE: There is a winner, and her name is Alexandra. One entry......is Alexandra. One entry per person. And remember, cheaters never prosper, because...

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Giveaway: Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Skynet Edition on Blu-ray!
By Great White Snark | May 25, 2009
In a fit of cross-promotional mania, Lionsgate Home Entertainment released Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Skynet Edition on Blu-ray last week, and I’ve got a shiny, new copy to give away. The disc features all kinds of fancy features that are particular to the Blu-ray format, including picture-in-picture of behind the scenes video, BD-Live™ enabled games and extra content for internet-connected players, and audio commentary with 26 cast and crew members including director James Cameron and co-writer William Wisher. Plus, it’s enhanced for something called a “D-Box Motion Control System,” which is not at all a machine for remote-controlling douche-boxes.  Which, understandably, might be your first guess. To sign up to win a copy of Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Skynet Edition on Blu-ray: If you haven’t already, get an e-mail subscription to Great White Snark. It won’t cost you nuthin’. Leave a comment on this post. In the “Mail (will not be published)” field, enter the same e-mail address of your subscription, so I know who you are. In the comment, create a title and tagline for the sequel to the now-in-theaters, ragingly-mediocre Terminator: Salvation. I’ll select the winner at random and announce them in an update to this post next Tuesday, June 2. UPDATE: There is a winner, and her name is Alexandra. One entry per person. and remember, cheaters never prosper, because I’ve got your IP address, people: duplicate entries are dopey entries.  Winners outside the forty-eight contiguous U.S. states pay shipping. Because this ain’t a money tree, it’s just a plain ol’ blog. Netflix - Only $4.99 a month! No Late Fees. Try it for Free! Enjoy this post? Subscribe to Great White Snark by email or by RSS.
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...any notoriety despite the brilliant commentary and side-splitting humor opposite some......over. I got to work today and after knocking out some emails......Trends looking for some fodder and was frankly amazed to find......right up at the top and the number one listing if......optimize the site for search and have submitted it to every......tried SEM, added every button and chicklet available, and generally prayed......to figure out what happened and how we got such an......the site to congratulate me and to say how lucky I......high percentage of iGoogle pages, and has had most technical issues......with a bunch of sites and blogs dedicated only to Google......unique visitors so far today and it’s only just begun. You......PM– What’s a Shod Foot? And What’s It Got to Do...

 
Tracking the bizarre things people suddenly search for on Google.
Everyone But You Miraculously Makes Google Hot Trends!–April 1–9:17 AM
For my regular readers, you know that I spend a lot of time commenting on all of the ridiculous terms that people suddenly start searching for in Google. If you don’t know that yet, then I don’t know why I went through all the trouble coming up with the catchy tagline for this blog: “Tracking the bizarre things people suddenly search for at Google.” It says it right at the top of this page for crying out loud. New readers: pay attention…we work quickly here. Regular readers (all 5 of you) will also know that I often complain that this blog doesn’t get any notoriety despite the brilliant commentary and side-splitting humor opposite some other really crappy blogs. In fact, I just wrote about this the other day. However, miraculously, the wait is over. I got to work today and after knocking out some emails checked the latest Google Hot Trends looking for some fodder and was frankly amazed to find out that this blog was in Google Hot Trends. There it was, plain as day…”Everyone But You”…listing number 4. Of course, when you search for this in Google, we’re right up at the top and the number one listing if you search in blogs only. Believe me, no one is more surprised by this than I am. I’ve done a lot to try to optimize the site for search and have submitted it to every contest imaginable, added Feedburner, begged for links from friends, posted comments with my URL, tried SEM, added every button and chicklet available, and generally prayed to the Internet gods for a simple mention on the right page. That day arrived today…you’ll probably miss my moaning about never getting any recognition. Ironically, it took me a while to figure out what happened and how we got such an immediate search boost (for the record, as of right now, 9:15 AM, we’ve had over 41,000 visitors today so far versus our 50-100 average. My hosting company called me this morning to see if I would authorize additional bandwith to handle all the new traffic, which I happily did). To be honest, I didn’t discover the reason on my own, someone sent me an email from the form on the site to congratulate me and to say how lucky I was that Sergey mentioned that this site is “a great example of people really having fun with our products, but also showing tremendous loyalty to the Google brand.” Who the hell is Sergey? After a little more digging (as I confess that apparently I don’t know that much about Google after all), I discovered that the Sergey in question was indeed none other than Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. Apparently, at a recent conference, he spoke about what Google Labs products would move into full releases this year. You can check out the press release from the conference right here. For those too lazy to read the entire thing, here’s the important quote from Sergey: “As we head into April, we’ve got a lot of work to do in order to reach our goal of having two Labs projects promoted to full releases by the end of the summer. Google Trends is a likely candidate, as it’s been very popular, is on a very high percentage of iGoogle pages, and has had most technical issues addressed. You also see a lot of grassroots support of this product with a bunch of sites and blogs dedicated only to Google Trends. Someone sent me a link to a pretty amusing one recently called Everyone But You. It’s a great example of people really having fun with our products, but also showing tremendous loyalty to the Google brand.” 41,000 unique visitors so far today and it’s only just begun. You can always say you knew me when… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Everyone But You Miraculously Makes Google Hot Trends!–April 1–9:17 AM", url: "http://www.everyonebutyou.com/2008/04/01/everyone-but-you-miraculously-makes-google-hot-trends-april-1-917-am/" });If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
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Adam Warren Week: The Interview
July 23rd, 2009 by david brothers
Adam Warren was kind of enough to consent to an email interview, so of course I immediately bombarded him with way too many questions. As a result, we’ve got a long, and wide-ranging, interview that I think is pretty interesting. We cover a lot of ground, and Warren does it with good humor. and I do mean a lot of ground– this thing weighs in at over 5800 words. I went through and added in links for context or reference, in case you’re curious about a few of the topics that come up. Thanks to Ken Kneisel for supplying me with the majority of Warren’s run on Dirty Pair, Jacq Cohen at Dark Horse for turning an offhanded Facebook comment into a fun interview, and finally, Adam Warren for answering a million questions. After you finish reading, you should buy some Empowered (One, Two, Three, Four, Five), Dirty Pair, Iron Man: Hypervelocity, and Livewires. While you’re waiting for those to arrive, visit his DeviantArt to look at some art. Let’s get it in. (and yes, adam warren week is just three days long. shut your face.) At the time that I’m writing this, Empowered has been out for a couple of weeks. What’s your workday like now that it’s on shelves? Do you take a vacation between books or get right into working on the next volume? What do you do to relax? Right now, I’m working on an Empowered one-shot (in conventional comics format, for once!) and frantically trying to wrap up a few other miscellaneous art jobs before I head off to the San Diego Comic-Con this week (ouch). This is more or less par for the course, as I usually try to work up other pitches or grind away at brief stints of better-paying work before I go back to full-time work on the next Empowered volume; in a way, though, this almost is a vacation, compared to the crazily long hours I often have to work as a volume’s deadline looms ever nearer. As for relaxing, well, once the workday’s over, I might read some books, watch a DVD (starting over with The Wire season 1, at present), or crack a Sam Adams or two and catch some Craig Ferguson in the wee hours… (Though the latter’s not an option, of late. Since the spectacular onset of the digital TV revolution, my remote neck of the woods went from receiving about eight different TV stations’ signals to receiving a grand total of none whatsoever; yay, DTV! So, no Craig Ferguson for me, nowadays.) Ah, the manifold joys of the rural-dwelling freelancer’s off-work lifestyle… How fast are you, art-wise? Do you do any digital work, or are you strictly lo-tech? What do you listen to while you draw? I certainly wouldn’t claim that I’m an especially speedy artist in general… but, when working in the straight-to-pencil format used for Empowered, I can usually turn around at least two pages per full workday, which isn’t too shabby a production rate. That’s the whole point of the format, really: to move on to the finished page as quickly as possible, leaving out all the intervening stages that used to slow me down as an artist. As in, my technique used to progress from scrawled roughs to very tight but undersized layouts to even more tightly penciled, full-size pages to final inks that were even tighter still; on Empowered, I jump from the thumbnail/rough stage straight to final, penciled pages (at the wee 8.5” X 11” size, BTW), a considerably more streamlined process. While the technique I use on Empowered is indeed extremely “lo-tech”—nothing but graphite on letter-size copy paper, without resorting to such high-tech, cutting-edge, space-age innovations such as bristol board or inks or a separate lettering stage—I  can’t say that it’s strictly lo-tech, as the pages still wind up getting scanned into Photoshop, then tweaked and cleaned up (and lettering-corrected, as necessary) at Dark Horse. Contradictorily enough, only modern scanning and printing technologies make Empowered’s primitive process viable in the first place… Nowadays, I listen to a helluva lot of talk radio when I’m working, mostly of the sports-related variety (I am a New England native, so Pats/ Sox/ Celts interest comes naturally to me), occasionally mixing in some books on CD for variety… I do, however, switch over to music from the ol’ iPod when working on scripts, due to the sad fact that talk radio’s babble frequently derails my train of dialog-related thought. (Unless I actually want to mix references to KG and Jonathan Papelbon and Randy Moss into my scripting, which is rarely the case.)    While doing research for this interview, I realized that you don’t sell your original art. I don’t think that you travel to many cons, either, so genuine Adam Warren Sketches(TM) are pretty rare. Do you prefer to keep your art within the confines of published books, rather than sketches and such? It’s not that I’m particularly opposed to selling my artwork; it’s just that I’ve never clawed out enough free time to set up some means of actually selling the stuff. (Plus, I am a tad paranoid that some Empowered material might need to be rescanned at some point; such are the problems inherent to working in the ever-tricky medium of grayscale.) I should say that, back when I used to attend considerably more conventions than I do now (the invites dried up a long time ago, for better or for worse), I did crank out a goodly number of commissioned sketches every year… Empowered is descended from the last major clump of such commissions (mainly of the “damsel-in-distress” variety) I took on, after all. Now, though, I no longer have the time to deal with many (or any) more such requests along those lines. Side note: Come to think of it, my attendance at San Diego this year will mark my first convention appearance during the entire time that Empowered has been coming out… Alert the media! Well, perhaps not. In general, I suppose that I do prefer to keep my artwork within the confines of a published book, or at least within the confines of a story… Drawing as such doesn’t interest me all that much, save for as a means of conveying a narrative. I’ve never filled a sketchbook, I don’t draw people in the subway (er, that is, assuming I moved to a location that had a subway), I don’t hang around sketching with fellow artists after conventions (though the first part of the social “Drink & Draw” experience does appeal); in short, I don’t do the things that a real artist, someone who’s Crazy In Love With Drawing, should do. Luckily, this isn’t a major, psyche-twisting source of angst for me, as I pretty much see myself as a writer who happens to be able to draw. I know that Empowered has been published online via Dark Horse Presents and that you have an established presence on DeviantArt. Have you thought about serializing complete stories from previous volumes or sneak previews from new volumes of Empowered on the web? Oh, I’ve definitely thought about it, especially in regard to keeping archives of the earlier volumes online. I had tenuous plans to run the previous volumes in webcomics-archive form, but so far, I’m just too damn busy with trying to stay ahead of both Empowered’s  perpetually looming deadlines and the deadlines of the other jobs I have to take on, in order to keep the fragile book afloat… Oh, well; maybe someday you will, in fact, see a legitimate form of Empowered online (other than through the crappy-looking scans one can find on BitTorrent and Rapidshare and the like; please pardon the sound of my grinding teeth), but I’d advise against holding your breath.  Your story about Galactus’s daughter used Twitter in a big way. Do you twitter? While I don’t have much interest in twittering as myself, I’ve actually twittered quite extensively “in character” as Galacta, using the same Twitter address used in the story that ran in Marvel Assistant-Sized Spectacular #2:  http://twitter.com/Gali_girl. As a goofy little writing exercise, I racked up about 400 or so tweets of Gali pontificating about various subjects (mainly relating to her thinline love/hate relationship with her father, Galactus), some of which might prove useful for future stories… or pitches for Galacta stories, at least. Your work tends to have a very clear sci-fi influence running throughout it. Even your older work is laden with fresh ideas across a variety of disciplines, which still aren’t dated in the modern day. Where do you pick this stuff up and how do you keep current with emerging tech? Nowadays, I think you’d almost have to make a deliberate effort to avoid hearing about emerging tech, due to the blinding rapidity with which especially noteworthy science or engineering developments are disseminated online… I mean, hell, most of the political or humor-oriented blogs I follow are almost as likely to link to some odd new technological breakthrough or bizarre weapons system or counterintuitive sociological analysis as a dedicated science site would be, or so it often seems. Still, though, I try to keep up with the usual science/ tech suspects like Boing Boing, Bad Astronomy, Next Big Future, >The New Scientist and so on… Plus, keeping an eye on specific science authors’ sites is always a good idea, with Carl Zimmer (author of the SF-influential Parasite Rex), Cliff Pickover (Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves and many, many others), and Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near) being choice examples. Beyond that, I also prowl the

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« Traitor (2008) Ghost Town (2008) » Burn After Reading (2008) September 12th, 2008 by Brian McDonough Rating: Director: Ethan & Joel Coen Starring: George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt Following the intense drama No Country for Old Men, the Coen Brothers return to their sweet spot—deadpan black comedies about losers. With Burn After Reading they take on the spy genre in an age when political thrillers are particularly imbued with sociological commentary. Here, their commentary seems to be that there are losers everywhere you go, and our hyped-up age of espionage and the technological eradication of privacy is stocked with the same old human venality. The result, with a top-grade cast cutting loose in the Coens’ weird universe, is a fun and unpredictable romp that delivers their trademark combination of laughably bland screwups and unexpected violence. Okay, try to keep up: John Malkovich is an arrogant bastard of a CIA analyst who gets canned from the Agency by a bunch of faceless bureaucrats who might as well be running a vacuum-cleaner factory in the mid-fifties. His wife is an icy bitch played by Tilda Swinton, who’s sleeping around with a federal marshall played by George Clooney. Swinton’s preliminary steps to divorce Malkovich put apparently secret “SigInt” materials into the hands of a middle-aged gym flunkie, Frances McDormand, obsessed with plastic surgery she can’t afford, who recruits hapless idiot trainer Brad Pitt in an impromptu game of blackmail that’s clearly informed by too many cheap Hollywood thrillers. She meets an increasingly edgy Clooney through a skeevy online dating service, and further complications ensue. The plot is entirely powered by the pedestrian selfishness of the characters. They’re cheaters, embittered schemers, pathetic losers, and sometimes even sympathetic sad sacks. There are sly digs at espionage thrillers, both with some unskilled cloak and dagger work and in the online dating rendezvous, in which blind dates meet in public, on park benches like spies out of some Graham Greene or John Le Carre novel. The machinery of government, the powerful and clever forces filling Bourne and Bond movies, are useless, clueless, operating on some stratum so far removed from our human level that, in the figure of J.K. Simmons, they can neither figure out what’s going on, nor manage to care. The deadpan humor will be offputting for some. It’s dark, and this is not the wild comedy of Raising Arizona, nor the broader Dude-fueled laughs that abide in The Big Lebowski. There’s a touch of claustrophobic weirdness, without being as deeply insane as Barton Fink. Group it closer to The Hudsucker Proxy, if you’re a Coen aficionado. The film entertains by combining broad acting, straight-faced absurdity and a willingness not to simplify plot or themes. After a summer of action excess, it’s the perfect gentle descent into autumn, both intelligent and slapstick-goofy. America’s best filmmaking team remain in solid form. digg_url = 'http://www.badmouth.net/burn-after-reading-2008/'; This entry was posted on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 11:34 pm and is filed under Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 2 Responses to “Burn After Reading (2008)”

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June 24th, 2009:
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This month has been hard on me, emotionally and physically. A piece of cake by some people’s standards, I’m sure, but for me, it has been one of the hardest months I’ve had in awhile—or possibly ever, if I could remember clearly. and so, like any other normal person, I decided to turn 24 bipolar days of highs and lows into four specific lists. I’m not going to lie; this post probably has nothing for you. It has no deep questions or things to ponder. It’s just a series of lists; a glimpse into the way my mind organizes the things that happen to me, at best. I originally wrote this in twisted, masochistically curious humor (why else would anyone want to relive all the bad things that happened to them for the sake of making it into a list?), but in writing this and other things, I have a feeling I have hit the last nail in the coffin on how writing can be like therapy for me. So here it goes… Things that have gone wrong so far in June: Someone I love was given 48 hours to live—three weeks ago. Extremely stressful family drama, which I—despite my best attempts—got sucked into because somebody has to be the voice of reason and make people calm down. I went to the dentist and found out everything I cooked up in my head and freaked out about thanks to google is actually true: I will need three wisdom teeth pulled and three cavities drilled, which means: THREE OR MORE NEEDLES IN MY MOUTH. (So pretty much, I’m going to die. Bring daisies to my funeral.) Having my wallet—complete with credit card, UBCDC ID, student ID, drivers license, money and a 50 dollar gift card—stolen. While I was at the hospital. Because of all the things that have happened, all the other things in my life (namely, the two big ones: my business and my education) haven’t been attended to in weeks, causing me even more stress because I am so behind on everything and more problems and stresses are piling up because of that. Icing on the Things That Have Gone Wrong So Far In June cake: Three nervous breakdowns—one for every week in June so far. “What are you, 15, 16?” — I’m not sure if I should take this as a premature compliment or an insult, because when I was actually 15 and 16, people consistently overguessed my actual age by at least 2-4 years, if not more. So what happened? I got called a bitch by someone for a situation I described to someone else, which made me question whether or not I did a bitchy thing (which broke my heart) and whether or not I do the same thing that person did to me, to other people (which broke my heart even more). The one person I want to talk to in the midst of many people I don’t want to talk to won’t talk to me, which is ironically unfunny because I don’t think anyone who knows the situation would disagree with me when I say it should be the other way around, and knowing this makes me even more ticked off at myself because despite all that, I still want to hear from this person. The couple times I have shared with someone else a little of what’s going (wrong) with my life as of lately, and having them completely miss the problem and its significance in the big picture. Having to stay up all night several times out of necessity, leading to the total screw up of my sleep schedule resulting a continual string of late nights (2-3 am) which basically kills the day after and what little productivity I had after everything else that’s happened. Tomorrow will be the last day I see the best friend before she moves across the country indefinitely. Things that have gone right so far in June: I’ve gotten to see more of the best friend who moved away and the best friend who is moving away this month than the last three combined. The person I love who was given 48 hours to live three weeks ago has not only gotten over the critical condition that put a best before date on her life, but is now doing better than ever. Of all the things that could have gone right, this is the one I was hoping and praying would. and it did. and because it did (despite all odds), it has been the first instance in my life where I have been so overwhelmed and in awe of the power and existence of God, because this is simply nothing short of a miracle. As it turns out, those cavities I have are teeny tiny pinhole cavities, and the wisdom teeth that need extracting are still under the gumline with not-fully-developed roots, which is probably the best situation for wisdom teeth extraction and cavity drilling. The opportunities I’ve had to “escape” from the problems of reality, and balance out the negative with some great positives; my weekend in Kelowna, my day trip to Bellevue, Sarah & Zillion’s showdance fundraiser, etc. Icing on the Things That Have Gone Right So Far In June cake: All of your lovely comments on the last thing I wrote on here and everything I’ve been posting on Twitter. I really do appreciate that people who have never met me care! There are certain people in my life I have come to appreciate and love more than ever through all of this. Some of them have been there when I needed them most, some of them have just been there all the time, some of them have made me laugh until I cried and some of them have showed a strength I have never seen. That same dentist who pronounced my fate regarding the wisdom teeth and cavities also praised the state of my teeth, gums and oral hygiene several times, which most certainly made my day, especially considering that previous to that, I hadn’t been to a dentist in ten years. Things certain people have said in the last couple weeks that have made me laugh so hard I’ve forgetten—if just for that moment—how messed up everything else is. Getting closer to the people who actually matter in my life, and learning to embrace the act of distancing myself from the people, circles and situations of which I don’t need to be subjected to.
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...humor, with some political type commentary thrown in at times…but it......at times…but it is the humor that i go back for…… the......work had been “laid”,,, and there was no going back…. as......had been my boyfriend on and off, since 5 th grade…i slept with......to be my older brother, and could come and pick me......tool……and a very valuable tool… and so interesting in its many......i perceived myself as unlovable, and thus chose to leave no......metal bar, of all places… and everything that i knew to......if he was a drug,, and as he injected himself into......over me, leaving me breathless, and yearning for more…..willing to do......the strength to go back and try again… but i fear......27th, 2007 at 6:37 am and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow...

….why paisley??? Home about the mantel if you are here looking for poetry, it is currently being posted on my creative blog, just paisley.... ashes run away 27 05 2007 impaled Posted by: whypaisley in Uncategorized i have been checking in with a blog called the sneaky badger for quite some time… long before i ever envisioned myself to be a blogger…. it is a site for humor, with some political type commentary thrown in at times…but it is the humor that i go back for…… the last two posts have, in a way, been about female control over the male counterpart in a relationship, or marriage….and they are truly funny……but you know me… i have to walk away with something,,, or i am just not content…… once again,,, let me start at the very beginning…. having already established that i do not consider humans to be monogamous beings,, it has left the door open to discussing what exactly i think human sexuality is… or more accurately is not…. now i will admit, when i entered the sexual arena, at the tender age of 14, the thought that perhaps i would save myself for one lifetime sexual partner never crossed my mind…monogamy was something my parents may have thought about while growing up,,, but not me.. i was coming of age post haight ashbury , post woodstock , post hippies,, the ground work had been “laid”,,, and there was no going back…. as for the first time,,, you should know,, that the “young man” had been my boyfriend on and off, since 5 th grade…i slept with “C”… because it was a natural progression… we had history, we had known each other since we were “kids”…who better to explore the unexplored with than someone that i had known forever…. but…that doesn’t in any way account for the fact that i slept with his older brother the next week… oh yes i did…. i slept with his brother”E”,,, because he was old enough (21) to pretend to be my older brother, and could come and pick me up from school when i feigned illness….aha… a trend was born…. “if i do what you want,,, you will do what i want”…. not exactly a romantic epiphany,,, but a very challenging psychological achievement for a 14 year old…….. sex as a tool……and a very valuable tool… and so interesting in its many useful variations…… over the course of a life time… i have employed the use of this tool,, to: “cement” relationships get my basic human needs met, food, clothing, shelter, transportation, drugs, alcohol …. as a hook for a potential marriage partner as a means of punishment as an undressed rehearsal,, for auditioning prospective partners as a job, where in i was paid in cash,,, not commodities as a weapon, to hurt someone that i perceived as having hurt me as a weapon to hurt myself…..when i perceived myself as unlovable, and thus chose to leave no doubt in that area. a very useful tool indeed…. as the fates would have it,,, i indeed met my male counterpart one night in a metal bar, of all places… and everything that i knew to be true about sex, at that moment,, was voided…. as i have so eloquently described on more than one occasion… i had at last found “a dick more powerful than myself…” without a conscious decision being made on my part,, i went from wielding the tools… to being the one that was in fact being rendered helpless against such a skilled artisan ……it was as if he was a drug,, and as he injected himself into me,, i became powerless… leaving no doubt that i had never experienced my own sexuality, nor the power it could in fact exert over me, leaving me breathless, and yearning for more…..willing to do things i thought i would never do ,, to secure it as my own…to experience it,, just one more time… i have spent the rest of my life trying to regain that euphoria… to find something that was as powerful,, as controlling, as enveloping,, something that would consume me with the desire to savor it, yes,, just one more time…. a few years ago, i stepped away from the sexual arena altogether….and have become a spectator,, instead of a participant….. yearning to re-enter that world, but knowing my appetites cannot be satisfied…. i would like very much to have the strength to go back and try again… but i fear my misguided use of the gift of sexuality has made that impossible… as it can never be the tool i once honed to piercing sharpness,, nor can it be the spike with which i seek to be impaled… and i don’t know that i can ever accept anything less… This entry was posted on Sunday, May 27th, 2007 at 6:37 am and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. 7 Responses to “impaled”