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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/08/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    Astronaut Fall is a knockoff of a Ray Bradbury story. Bradbury's ending was a child wishing on a falling star. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    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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    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    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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    Image of Rumblytums Rumblytums
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    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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    Image of spocko 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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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment spocko was starred spocko was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    "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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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    WOW! Never heard of this guy. Stellar jokes and nice coloring. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship

    My absolute favorite strip of his.

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


    @omgwtflolbbqbye: #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of jaynesworth jaynesworth
    11/03/09

    In reply to Our Geeky Hearts Are Bigger On The Inside Than On The Outside
    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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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    11/03/09

    In reply to Our Geeky Hearts Are Bigger On The Inside Than On The Outside

    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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    Edited by Anekanta - Go Play! at 11/03/09 6:45 PM Anekanta - Go Play! was starred Anekanta - Go Play! was unstarred
    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    11/03/09

    @Anekanta: hmmm, need to work on my html image formatting...
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    Edited by Anekanta - Go Play! at 11/03/09 6:55 PM Anekanta - Go Play! was starred Anekanta - Go Play! was unstarred
    Image of Elorin 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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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/03/09

    In reply to Our Geeky Hearts Are Bigger On The Inside Than On The Outside
    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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    Image of robfagen 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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    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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    Image of SJ_Edwards 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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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    11/03/09

    @Rasselas: but your money is the only way we know you like us! #michaelchabon
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    Image of Rasselas 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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    Image of Mighty Bomb Jack 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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    Image of SJ_Edwards 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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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/04/09

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

    In reply to Our Geeky Hearts Are Bigger On The Inside Than On The Outside
    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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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/02/09

    In reply to Can a Plush Bunny Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? You Decide
    You had me at "chainsmoking stuffed bunny." #zombocalypsenow
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    Image of GevatterTod GevatterTod
    11/02/09

    In reply to Can a Plush Bunny Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? You Decide
    if it is fueled by duracell, sure. #zombocalypsenow
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    Image of Jeremy Tapsell Jeremy Tapsell
    11/02/09

    In reply to Can a Plush Bunny Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? You Decide
    Time for a Sam & Max Zombie game then, surely? #zombocalypsenow
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    Image of GundamX67 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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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! 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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    Image of philippe.desrosiers philippe.desrosiers
    11/02/09

    In reply to Can a Plush Bunny Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? You Decide
    Hey, how about a link to the book on Amazon, or something?
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson 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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