I not only listen to NPR, I visit its website on a regular basis. (this makes me ineligible for Republican Party Membership in at least 3 states)
The latest gem found there is actually from Thursday, but it took me a few days to pick up on it:
as part of NPR’s ongoing Summer Books 2008 series, Glen Weldon has pulled together a neat little roundup of recent (well, within the past year or so) ‘real’ books that play off of, celebrate, twist, or chronicle the comic book phenomenon for the civilian populace.
You could do much, much worse than to just read the whole damn list in order.
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one of the featured books/authors in the above linked article is “From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain” by the baddest sci-fi writing mofo in all of Alberta, Minister Faust. If you weren’t already familiar with the work of the Rev. Mr. Faust, then you should definitely pick up Dr. Brain — or his first book, “The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad”
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Note: NSFW. Icarus, best described as "the Thinking Man's Porn Manga." Simon does me the undeserved favor of dropping free review copies my way, which I have callously ignored to date. Simon's blog is also a must-read, for a look at the manga industry from a small indy publisher's perspective. Plus, porn.
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- Soviet concept art vintage 1967, ganked from Dark Roasted Blend
- Excerpt of a souvenir card from the 1929 round-the-world flight of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, ganked from Oldbeacon.com (via Metafilter)
- Goodyear Rocket Airship concept, posted in a 1958 Popular Mechanics article; ganked from online archives of the rec.aviation.military usenet group, found via GIS.
- Photo of the sculpture "Guard" by Hans van Bentem, located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ganked from Wikimedia Commons
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- Butt end of a R-7 Soyuz-class rocket booster of recent vintage, ganked from Michael Saxe at TravelBlog.
- Overlayed schematics, colour-inverted, of the Lippisch P-09 Rocket Plane, the Sänger-Bred Rocket Bomber, an unnamed heavy-tank-class mecha, and a second unnamed mecha in fighter-jet configuration (both anonymous to keep my ass from infringement -- and at that resolution & in combination I claim fair use as part of an artistic and satirical collage)
- Excerpt of "Dr. J.W. Mauchly makes an adjustment to ENIAC, the massive computer he designed to assist the U.S. military during World War II," ganked from Science Clarified
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one of the featured books/authors in the above linked article is “From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain” by the baddest sci-fi writing mofo in all of Alberta, Minister Faust. If you weren’t already familiar with the work of the Rev. Mr. Faust, then you should definitely pick up Dr. Brain — or his first book, “The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad”
http://www.edmontonblackpages.com/Bio%20-%20Minister%20Faust.html
Comment by Matt Blind — 6 July 2008, 13:56 #