My favorite thing about the opening line of Neuromancer is that it has been almost completely rendered obsolete.

How does one tune a channel? And dead channels don't look like anything, they're either bright blue or just plain off.

After the internet has a few more years to penetrate, "television" and "channel" will both be meaningless too.

It's still a good line, though. It's the way the future looked from 1984.

Good lord! Somebody got whacked with a shovel at A-Camp. Why, that hasn't happened for, like, four years straight. Who knew all those alcoholics would misuse their shovels.

I go to the Gathering every year. Y'all are seriously, seriously clueless about what it is and what's going on. I don't know that explaining it would help.

We aren't a cult.

The people who you read about in the article were kicked out of the Gathering, right? That's what it says right there. Well, if it's who I think it is (the Peace Pole firepit folk?), we kicked them out for being violent. And then they went someplace else, and were violent there. How is this our fault or our problem?

The only thing interesting about this story is that, for some reason, the Rainbow is getting all sorts of news attention right now. This is nothing new, nothing at all. The fact that it's on boingboing is the only new thing.

Save the drama for Obama!

We use these at the Rainbow Gathering. It makes coffee with little effort.

Yeah, I'm trying to self-publish a series of comic books, and this is one nail in the coffin that I didn't need.

However, I agree with the previous posters who said that it was the earlier rates increases that did the damage.

I can't move to the internet -- I'm already on the internet. You don't make many sales from the internet. You make sales in stores, but after the store takes half, the distributor takes 10% of the remainder, and you pay for postage and printing, there is exactly 0 left over and people wonder why comics cost so much these days.

And then people shoplift them from the stores!

The only way to make money with minicomics is conventions.

I was there too. It was a good panel!

This "controversy" over Ms. Petit is bizarre. She was not listed on the brochure. She was clearly there in a role as a moderator. She had some very interesting comments but the focus of the panel was clearly on McCloud and Rushkoff. Although in a perfect world the author would have mentioned her, his failure to give the moderator a shout-out by name is not a conspiracy or implied sexism. I wish some people would just relax.

OK, there's more to this story, and I'm going to leave it to you to google it all yourself. You'll believe it better that way.

I live in Austin. I asked people that worked at KOOP. I knew people who were put out in the FIRST fire. When was the first time that KOOP radio was destroyed by a mysterious fire?

January 6, 2006. When was the second?

February 4th, 2006.

What happened that weekend?

The landlord, Harry Whittington, was shot in the face by Vice President Dick Cheney.

The third fire happened on Janary 6, 2008.

This is absolutely true. This is common knowledge in Austin. Please research this yourself and you will see that these facts are not in dispute.

I think it's all a wild, wild coincidence, myself.

Ah, yes. Every year, at about this time, the infant marios rush to their flagpole. Each individual baby mario faces insurmountable odds, but the survival of their species is at stake!

Here's mine:

"I Am The President of Ice Cream! part 3"

http://unnecessaryg.com/comics/24prez3/index.htm

Twenty-one hours at the Austin Museum of art, using a tablet PC and a little bit of pencil here and there.

WARNING: This is the third and final chapter of a long story. It makes a LOT more sense if you read the two before it:

http://unnecessaryg.com/comics/prez/index.htm
(parts one and two were 24-hour comics that I cleaned up a bit. Part three will be cleaned up too and I hope to publish the whole story next year).