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Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:34:55 +0100

Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer:

WASHINGTON—At a press conference Monday, President Obama announced that he had appointed legendary comic book writer Alan Moore as the official biographer of his time in the White House. “As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore’s deft hand with both sociopolitical commentary and metaphysical violence makes him an ideal choice to chronicle my time in office,” Obama said of the author of Watchmen and From Hell, whom he reportedly chose over others on a short list of potential biographers that included Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, and Bob Woodward. “I look forward to seeing the kinds of subplots he will surely weave throughout the main narrative of my presidency, and how he’ll tie them all back together at the end in a way that just elevates the thing to a whole other level. God, that guy is the master.” Although Obama has not yet settled on a publisher for his White House biography, he is reportedly leaning toward DC’s Vertigo imprint for its creator-friendly ethos, high production values, and willingness to publish content for mature readers.

Valerie's letter

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:36:44 +0100

I don’t know who you are. Please believe. There is no way I can convince you that this is not one of their tricks. But I don’t care. I am me, and I don’t know who you are, but I love you.

I have a pencil. A little one they did not find. I am a women. I hid it inside me. Perhaps I won’t be able to write again, so this is a long letter about my life. It is the only autobiography I have ever written and oh God I’m writing it on toilet paper.

I was born in Nottingham in 1957, and it rained a lot. I passed my eleven plus and went to girl’s Grammar. I wanted to be an actress.

I met my first girlfriend at school. Her name was Sara. She was fourteen and I was fifteen but we were both in Miss. Watson’s class. Her wrists. Her wrists were beautiful. I sat in biology class, staring at the picket rabbit foetus in its jar, listening while Mr. Hird said it was an adolescent phase that people outgrew. Sara did. I didn’t.

In 1976 I stopped pretending and took a girl called Christine home to meet my parents. A week later I enrolled at drama college. My mother said I broke her heart.

But it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it’s all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free.

London. I was happy in London. In 1981 I played Dandini in Cinderella. My first rep work. The world was strange and rustling and busy, with invisible crowds behind the hot lights and all that breathless glamour. It was exciting and it was lonely. At nights I’d go to the Crew-Ins or one of the other clubs. But I was stand-offish and didn’t mix easily. I saw a lot of the scene, but I never felt comfortable there. So many of them just wanted to be gay. It was their life, their ambition. And I wanted more than that.

Work improved. I got small film roles, then bigger ones. In 1986 I starred in “The Salt Flats.” It pulled in the awards but not the crowds. I met Ruth while working on that. We loved each other. We lived together and on Valentine’s Day she sent me roses and oh God, we had so much. Those were the best three years of my life.

In 1988 there was the war, and after that there were no more roses. Not for anybody.

In 1992 they started rounding up the gays. They took Ruth while she was out looking for food. Why are they so frightened of us? They burned her with cigarette ends and made her give them my name. She signed a statement saying I’d seduced her. I didn’t blame her. God, I loved her. I didn’t blame her.

But she did. She killed herself in her cell. She couldn’t live with betraying me, with giving up that last inch. Oh Ruth… .

They came for me. They told me that all of my films would be burned. They shaved off my hair and held my head down a toilet bowl and told jokes about lesbians. They brought me here and gave me drugs. I can’t feel my tongue anymore. I can’t speak.

The other gay women here, Rita, died two weeks ago. I imagine I’ll die quite soon. It’s strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and I apologized to nobody.

I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one.

An inch. It’s small and it’s fragile and it’s the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

I don’t know who you are. Or whether you’re a man or a woman. I may never see you or cry with you or get drunk with you. But I love you. I hope that you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better, and that one day people have roses again. I wish I could kiss you.

Valerie

from V for Vendetta
Written by Alan Moore.
Art by David Lloyd.

Love Hotels (via journeymanpictures) April 2003With the...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:38:00 +0100

Love Hotels (via journeymanpictures)

April 2003
With the ‘Hello Kitty S&M Room’, ‘Cleopatra Love Suite’ and ‘Boxing Ring Bed’, there’s something to suit every taste in the new ‘Love Hotels.’

Japanese couples can escape their overcrowded family homes for an evening of the kitsch and kinky. We check into ‘The Love Shack’, which provides sex-toys in the vending machines, condoms on the pillows and the best room service on the planet.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

Alan Moore video channel

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:06:30 +0100

Alan Moore video channel:

Regular contributor Pádraig has been gathering together various Alan Moore videos and posting them all together in one handy YouTube channel called — what else? — Glycon. From Pádraig:

“For those of you who are fans of Alan Moore but are not necessarily on the Alan Moore Yahoo! Group mailing list, there has recently been a YouTube channel set up to collect all of Alan’s appearances that are on YouTube. You can find the channel at http://www.youtube.com/group/ChannelGlycon We’re still adding things to it, so it’s by no means complete and definitive, but it’s a good start, at the very least.

One of the things I’d particularly draw your attention to is the most recent posting, under the name of Alan Moore Swamp Thing Interview (see below — Joe). A wee while back I bought a video on eBay which turned out to be something he’d done for DC in about 1985, which I believe was for showing in comics shops and the like, where Alan talks very enthusiastically about his work on Swamp Thing, and about his forthcoming work on Watchmen. With the help of a few different people, I got this put up on YT, as I’m no good with technical stuff, and anyway it’s a US video. It’s kind of sad to see how enthused he is there, compared to how he feels now after how we was treated by DC.

If you’ve anything interesting to add to channel, please feel free to do so.”

Chart Movie Character Interactions via imgs.xkcd.com The...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:55:55 +0100

Chart Movie Character Interactions via imgs.xkcd.com

The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicates wich characters are together at a given time.

Video

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:02:03 +0100

Creepshow by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson. Let’s be...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:44:27 +0100

Creepshow by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson.

Let’s be clear about this: I was a huge coward as a child (still am, really). Thus, when the George Romero/Stephen King EC-tribute film Creepshow came out, I knew there was no way I was going to try to go see it. I could barely look at Bernie Wrightson’s comic adaptation! Which, of course, didn’t mean that I didn’t try to look at it mind you. I usually just kept sneaking glances and then quickly stuffing it back on the shelf. Usually when I came to that final story about the guy who gets eaten alive by cockroaches.

The adventure of Lil’Cthulhu via Schizodoxe

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:25:49 +0100

The adventure of Lil’Cthulhu via Schizodoxe

cell size and scale

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:18:00 +0100

cell size and scale:

Use the slider at the bottom to zoom in.

ikorkh: exoskeletalasphyxia: classics: tappy: emmanuelnegro: 3n0...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:59:32 +0100

ikorkh:

exoskeletalasphyxia: classics: tappy: emmanuelnegro: 3n0m15: (via pie0)

Eau de Cthulhu via nosolo.eu

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:02:31 +0100

Eau de Cthulhu via nosolo.eu

Avatar Full Theatrical Trailer

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:53:00 +0100

Avatar Full Theatrical Trailer

Ridley Scott Describes the Timeline of His Alien Prequel We...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:04:29 +0100

Ridley Scott Describes the Timeline of His Alien Prequel

We don’t know much about what Ridley Scott is planning to do with his prequel to Alien, the landmark sci-fi horror film he directed in 1979. There has been a lot of speculation that the film would involve the race of creatures from which hails the original film’s ’space jockey’, that giant skeletal being which fell prey to the xenomorph long before Ripley and her crew arrived on a derelict spaceship. Now Sir Ridley has divulged some ideas about the timeline of the film, which leads to more informed speculation about what we’ll see.

The prequel will be a while ago. It’s very difficult to put a year on Alien, but [for example] if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior.