Smiling Faces
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Nickname: misterjt
Location: Valley Village, CA USA
Birthday: March 19(Saved Remind mePlease RetryPlease Retry)
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31. Los Angeles. Black. Male. Web Producer. Disney Online. TV. Games. Live. Mobile. Corporate. Music. Single. Hetero. Non-Denominational. All-Consuming Media Beast. Dance Machine. Comic Book Fiend. Nintendo Power. Mac Lover. Last.fm Disciple. Geeked for Google. Eco-Friendly. Former Blogebrity.
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Mouse Guard Volume 1: Fall 1152 by David Petersen (2007, Archaia Studios Press). Halfway through Special Topics in Calamity Physics, I lost interest. I was reading a line here, a paragraph there, a chapter during an ambitious afternoon and then this arrived in my PO box and saved me. I don't remember how I learned of the Mouse Guard but the lush fall colors and illustrations drew me to it. Perhaps it's nostalgia, although I shudder at the thought of being that corny and pedestrian, but it does remind me of some of my favorite elementary school reads--an encyclopedia about Gnomes and the illustrated The Hobbit.
Much like the lush worlds of those stories and art, the Mouse… Read more
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
I sat in Lulu's Beehive this morning with my coffee and banana bundt amongst a sea of laptops, a painting of ducks that looked suspiciously like a picture in my own flickr photostream, and a friend's ex-boyfriend with another girl I knew but couldn't place. While I wasn't the only one with white buds in my ears, I was the only person cracking the spine of a book. The women that kept walking into the cafe were all cleavage and caffeine and cigarettes and a welcome distraction from the chapters about grief in this love letter to music and marriage and life. I kept catching myself staring too long at these ladies and thought, either I need to get laid or get loved.
Probably both… Read more
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
I lost my copy of The Lost Blogs. I read it way back in March during SXSW because, hey, what better time to read a blog book then when I'm out amongst the blogeratti? I whipped through it and chuckled regularly, smirking often and unable to stifle full blown laughter in a few points. It appears I'm a sucker for 2 types of nerdy blog humor: Historical blog entries from extremely positive but naive people (when John Lennon blogs about his first meeting with Yoko Ono) and accurate portrayals of blog & web geekdom ( the 3am comment war between William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles on Welles's Citizen Kane Blog). Paul writes lots more in that style and you should be greatful for that. Too bad… Read more
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