I Ramble Then Suddenly Promote Stuff

10am here. Just got off from work, but I've got a afternoon meeting to sit around and wait for. Meetings...that place where we put on our grown-up faces and say grown-up sounding things. We all nod our heads gravely and say things like "I agree completely", and "Oh yes, by all means". Yet in actuality each of us sits and thinks "God this is boring. Nothing is being said, nothing is getting done. This sucks. Why won't that person shut up. I see their lips moving but they sound like Charlie Brown's verbally-challenged teacher. Wah Wah wah wah. Please Lord, strike me dead. End this meeting."
Or, you know....that may just be me.
Thursday is also the day that I go and look at the newly arrived comics. Usually the more pretentious, artsy kind, but I'll buy crap too. Crap being defined as weird-ass European science fiction. U.S. non-alternative comics suck, they bore me silly, but just about any overseas sort of thing...yes. I'll take it. A lot of the best social criticism right now is taking place in comics form, Fantagraphics material especially.

I do the book review section for the latest issue of "Too Much Coffee Man: the magazine", I think it's issue #21. My formula is as follows: for every two real reviews I do one fake one, taking some sort of popular book and using it as an excuse to rant about whatever is bothering me at the moment. Since Too Much Coffee Man is a humor magazine I'm forced to keep everything light and funny-ish, it's not anything like my blog here. So...get it. My understanding is that in larger towns you can buy the magazine at any Borders bookstore, but where I live (a smaller place) its available at the local comic book shop. Coffee Man began as a alternative comic (created by Shannon Wheeler) before it switched into a larger magazine format, and it does have a liberal slant. It's website is not fully operational at this time, but you can view what is working at :
www.tmcm.com

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