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Lassus
11/06/09

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The Perry Bible Fellowship deserves every last good thing that's said about it, and much more.

HOF material, and 175% awesome. #theperrybiblefellowship
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B
11/06/09

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Wow, the Postman would have been a way better movie if what he delivered was a Publisher's Clearing house mailing. #theperrybiblefellowship
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Rumblytums
11/06/09

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We ran his comics for a while in the alt-weekly I work on, but ran out of "family friendly" comics pretty quickly. heh. #theperrybiblefellowship
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spocko
11/06/09

@Rumblytums: I can imagine. Very dark but also some really funny ones. It's a rare comic strip that I remember so vividly. One of my favorites is this one. #theperrybiblefellowship
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crashedpc - Haifisch
11/06/09

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"No one's buying lemonade..."
"How 'bout now??"

"HELP ME JENKINS"

It's just too bad he doesn't update anymore. #theperrybiblefellowship
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FrankenPC
11/06/09

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WOW! Never heard of this guy. Stellar jokes and nice coloring. #theperrybiblefellowship
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omgwtflolbbqbye
11/06/09

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My absolute favorite strip of his.

I'm buying this thing now.
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rek
11/06/09

@omgwtflolbbqbye: #theperrybiblefellowship
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jaynesworth
11/03/09

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Charlie Jane, you're a blogger and you wrote the words "his opinion-spouting gets a little overwhelming". That's funny. #michaelchabon
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Anekanta - Go Play!
11/03/09

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I'm adding this to my wish-list.

Also this: "...one of the constants in Chabon's essays is the primacy of play..."

reminds me of this:

[go-play.org]
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Anekanta - Go Play!
11/03/09

@Anekanta: hmmm, need to work on my html image formatting...
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Elorin
11/04/09

@Anekanta - Go Play!: Adding to my wishlist also. I enjoy books of essays, and while I might not see the depth that Charlie Jane sees in it, I think I'd enjoy this. #michaelchabon
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Rasselas
11/03/09

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From time to time I feel guilty for being so cold to the products of Chabon Inc., when its certified Geekcredgineers are so patently well-adjusted, warm-hearted and generous with their tales of liking the things that I like and disliking the things that I dislike and the products in its premium fiction line -- The One About the Comic-Book Creators and The One About the Jewish People in Alaska, particularly -- are so finely-finished, like Lexuses of hysterical Brooklyn fictioneering, and its mission statement so helpfully accessible and open-source. Chabon Inc. would never ask me to put away my childish things. It's like the cool father/older brother/professor/boss/mentor/secret sharer I never had but always wanted. #michaelchabon
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robfagen
11/03/09

@Rasselas: I don't know exactly what you are saying there. It's clear that you have some kind of issues, or at least have issues with the fact that you don't have issues. I suspected for just a moment that we had some of the same issues, but then I realized that you were saying you didn't like MC's work. That's opposite. Totally opposite. Now I'm really confused. #michaelchabon
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Rasselas
11/03/09

@robfagen: I won't pretend to be able to speak for anybody else, but, less obliquely put, sometimes I get tired of people selling me things, and sometimes the things that I get tired of them selling me are themselves. #michaelchabon
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SJ_Edwards
11/03/09

@Rasselas:
Lloyd Dobler, in 'Say Anything...' [en.wikipedia.org] :

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.

I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.

You know, as a career.

I don't want to do that." #michaelchabon
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The_Sporean_Bob
11/03/09

@Rasselas: but your money is the only way we know you like us! #michaelchabon
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Rasselas
11/03/09

@SJ_Edwards: Yeah, it is pretty childish. Sometimes things that other people like with all the justice in the world just don't move me. #michaelchabon
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Mighty Bomb Jack
11/04/09

@Rasselas: I've always been a fan of Chabon. I remember reading Kavalier and Clay in college and thinking, "I wish I could write like this." And I read Yiddish Policeman's Union on a sunny Caribbean beach, but his creation of a rainy, dark, seedy Alaskan town was so showing that I felt like I needed an umbrella and a lamp (maybe not the best choice for a beach book, then.)

Also, I love Chabon's genre-busting mentality when it comes to publishing and marketing.

I was never so suspicious as to think, "Oh, this is too well-laid-out," or, "this is too Geekcredgineered," especially while I was busy enjoying the books. #michaelchabon
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SJ_Edwards
11/04/09

@Rasselas: The quote wasn't a snipe.
I never thought Lloyd's aspirations were childish. They seemed born of undiminished expectation.

So often, the loftier the ambition and the more elegant the execution, in that we see around us, the more precarious is the equilibrium between our satisfaction and disappointment.

Nagging unease, at the edge of insight, that something, somehow, doesn't quite 'sing'. #michaelchabon
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Rasselas
11/04/09

@SJ_Edwards: Well said. #michaelchabon
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MonkeyT
11/03/09

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I'm always happy to see someone else trumpeting the concepts and purposes behind the Long Now (with or without the Foundation), something I consider one of the most important ideas people have come up with since the Enlightenment. #michaelchabon
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bonniegrrl
11/02/09

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You had me at "chainsmoking stuffed bunny." #zombocalypsenow
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GevatterTod
11/02/09

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if it is fueled by duracell, sure. #zombocalypsenow
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Jeremy Tapsell
11/02/09

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Time for a Sam & Max Zombie game then, surely? #zombocalypsenow
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GundamX67
11/03/09

@Jeremy Tapsell: T'was done. Sam & Max Season 2 Episode 3: Night of the Raving Dead. #zombocalypsenow
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Anekanta - Go Play!
11/03/09

@Jeremy Tapsell: I never got a chance to play Sam & Max, but I did play the first Jedi Knight game, where in one level, if you were fast, you could get into a secret room containing a pistol-wielding rabbit with a goofy grin on his face.

If you were careful, you could push him out of the room, and he'd run around the level shooting people at random. #zombocalypsenow
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philippe.desrosiers
11/02/09

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Hey, how about a link to the book on Amazon, or something?
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Bootknife-Jackson
11/02/09

@philippe.desrosiers: and maybe even an msrp on book reviews and release date? (though im sure most of them are out by the time you review them) #zombocalypsenow
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SpammerOvTheGods
11/02/09

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are there no zombie holocaust colouring books?

#@! #zombocalypsenow
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Jassen
11/02/09

@SpammerOvTheGods: Actually there is the Zombie Coloring & Activity Book by J. Freels. Quite a good way to introduce survival techniques to your younger children. #zombocalypsenow
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