Soundbites from Inkless Wells

"Remember when Paul Martin was charismatic? I may be wrong about his other flaws (that's false modesty, by the way: I'm not wrong about his other flaws), but this much is certain: his charismatic days are gone and they are never coming back."

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"Now, I bow to nobody except perhaps Stéphane Dion in my admiration for Stéphane Dion [...]

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"This post was a long prelude to tonight's events, when John Edwards will deploy a patently exaggerated Carolina drawl and extend the week's ridiculous Democratic line — the world is divided into dividers and uniters, and the Republicans are the dividers — in the near-certainty he will be judged charismatic when it's over."

-- Inkless Wells is more hesitant than most to label Barack Obama "charismatic"

Long Weekend!

Things I want to accomplish this weekend:

• A new release of Quantum
• Learn how to do Flash animation
• Cartooning

The Myth of Powerlessness

( The Cult of Impotence, Super-Size Me, and election reform )

Scene

LIGHTS UP.

BC is standing in her local comic shop. She's looking for Identity Crisis number 2 because number 1 was really engaging. Only a few of her favourite titles are out since last time: Strangers in Paradise, Planetary, and Powers. This is the store she's been going to for at least four years, possibly more. Several of the owners of the store know her well enough to have a pretty accurate idea of her taste in books.

As she browses the stacks, she overhears this conversation between two patrons and one of the store owners at the cash register:

Voice A: "Thing is, you can't call them the Wachowski Brothers any more. They're the Wachowski's.

Voice B: "What's that?"

Voice A: "One of them, Larry Wachowski's come out as a transsexual."

Voice B: "Like Jeff Jones? He's had like surgery?"

Voice C: "Yeah, they changed sex."

Voice A: "No, Larry Wachowski hasn't done it all yet. He's dressing like a woman in public. 'Course, he's probably been pumped up full of more hormones than a dairy cow."

Voice B: "Is he going to have the operation?"

Voice A: "Yeah. That's why some people say that there were two sequels to The Matrix. To pay for Larry's big surgery."

Voice B: "Huh."

Voice A: "I gotta say that Larry Wachowski makes a pretty ugly woman."

Voice B: "Well, of the two of them, at least he's the more feminine of them."

Voice A: "That's not really saying much."

Voice B: "Well, there's only so much you can do."

( So what would you do? )