Lorrie and I walked into our new neighborhood Urban Outfitters last night, and I immediately felt I was in another world…one where I had no clue about fashion, or actual clothing sizes. That’s not much of a stretch, but the feeling passed. I started to notice there’s still an underlying, mundane mall-ness to it all. Not much different from the food court, if the food court had books about sexual positions. ...

A synopsis of The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #21, in which a boy and his dog parachute into a forest fire, kill the last surviving wooly mammoth, and learn valuable lessons about how to properly dispose of matches. Oh yes, and they’re also attacked by a cougar. All in a day’s work for Rex…truly a Wonder Dog.

Something Awful is running a series of motivational posters for super-villains. The quality is up and down, but these are some good ones. Link courtesy of X-Ray Spex, which has good posters featuring the Red Skull and Magneto.

“It’s devouring the planet, even as we speak!” The New York Television Festival has some featured animation pilots on the web, including Squid Dragon Legend. It’s a decent sendup of anime, featuring the same sorts of thoughts you probably had the first time you saw it. It’s at its weakest when it strays from that into conventional jokes. Great line: “Or maybe he’s seen the future in some sort of crystal skull, with skulls all over it?” ...

Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, dead at 44 from a stingray’s barb. :(

Should we treat terrorists as pirates? What is needed now is a framework for an international crime of terrorism. The framework should be incorporated into the U.N. Convention on Terrorism and should call for including the crime in domestic criminal law and perhaps the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. This framework must recognize the unique threat that terrorists pose to nation-states, yet not grant them the legitimacy accorded to belligerent states. It must provide the foundation for a law that criminalizes not only terrorist acts but membership in a terrorist organization. It must define methods of punishment. ...

Joe Killian went to a Gun and Knife Show at the Greensboro Coliseum and reports back. Good stuff: Apparently people who are selling Nazi flags, bronze busts of Hitler and Rommel and stocking “The Turner Diaries” in the non-fiction section (all of which we saw) don’t like having their pictures taken.

One of the hazards of keeping the TV on as background noise while working over a weekend is that you might end up hearing fashion advice for guys. What I just heard: “Sexy tops, lowcut shirts, and skinny jeans” are in for men. Okay, if you’ve seen the pictures in a photographic record, you kind of know what I look like. What I now can’t get out of my head is a picture of me, dressed in a lowcut satin shirt with a sequin pattern and a pair of jeans that look like they were painted on. Suffice it to say, at 5'6" and the approximate weight of an NFL running back, that’s not a good picture, for me or the rest of the world. TV fashion shows should carry liability insurance. ;) ...

At first I thought he was talking about us. :) Get Fuzzy’s Bucky Katt comes up with a better name for mockingbirds, at least the one that lives near us.

I love it when comic book characters start speaking in logo… Image courtesy of Seven Hells!