Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.

Lateshift versus the World

Page: 1 2 3 4 5(6)7 8

Liger Null

02:13 / 08.04.08

There had been talk of a mass exodus, but the appearance of a few trolls has (oddly enough) breathed a bit of life back into the place, IMO.

This Sunday

02:14 / 08.04.08

Except for lateshifts, kinda sorta. At least, you see the sentiment a lot; it really doesn't feel deader than it used to be, but I had a conveniently shoddy memory for that type of thing.

This Sunday

02:17 / 08.04.08

I think my decline from the comics forum is more that I want to talk about older stuff, or tropes and states, more than I want to talk about new stuff, and I don't like being a thread-starter as I haven't much talent for it.

And really, Convo and Comics were the only places here I've ever really been heavily involved in.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:20 / 08.04.08

I love the old stuff...but prolly older than you are talking about. I'm still arguing with people that Vince Colletta should have been locked up instead of allowed to ink Jack Kirby's art.

This Sunday

02:26 / 08.04.08

No, actually, that's about where I'm at with most of my right-now comics interest. The odd choices in detail of Bill Everett, or what exactly Steve Gerber brought to the comics vernacular. And, to bring it up to the mid-nineties at least, those waves wherein superheroes are made middle-aged and then made young again. Leather jackets and stubble in The Avengers and the thirty-something-ying of the original X-Men of like '94.

Weird topics that may or may not catch on, and so they never get posted.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:29 / 08.04.08

Ah Gerber.

Damn. I almost wish I hadn't had an e-mail correspondence with him. It would have made his passing a lot easier. His work in the 70's was so far ahead of its time, and just didn't fit into the type of comics published, I wish he would have dove into Underground comix instead of Marvel. But, he had to make a living.

If you REALLY want to get deep in comics history, the Yahoogroups for Timely are a great way to eavesdrop on comics historians.

This Sunday

02:35 / 08.04.08

I'll have to look for the Yahoo! Group and check it out. I don't have the tenacity or memory for it like some people do, but I do find the stuff fascinating in passing.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:43 / 08.04.08

I'm off to bed. Have fun everyone!

This Sunday

02:53 / 08.04.08

Night, SR.

I think I need a fresh pot of coffee, myself.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:51 / 08.04.08

I'M BACK!

Instead of writing the werewolf story I started a wicked awesome surrealist porn story -- rather unexpectedly -- for the anthology that my librarian friend wants to put together, based around the theme of "lifelike." I love it, so far, even in its early draft form. I don't typically write sex, which is probably a good thing based on how weird this one is. It's like -- vacuous pornography. If that isn't redundant.

But the first coffee shop we went to, our usual haunt, closes early as of today for summer hours. The second coffee shop smelled of terribly burnt coffee. The third and final shop was okay but the tables are too small and everybody in there seemed to be on a first date which is HILARIOUS. We're looking for an alternate locale for next week.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

03:56 / 08.04.08

Bursting free secretive from the unassuming chest: I AM THE LATESHIFT REBORN

"Get your hands off of her, YOU BITCH!"

Hi.

Nice seeing you all again.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:58 / 08.04.08

Kali!

You know, I was thinking about you the other day. I can't remember why, though.

This Sunday

04:17 / 08.04.08

Hiya, whomever's left! I return.

Kali, good to see you around again. Housing issues over, I hope?

And, while I'm doing the checking up thing, Papers, did your work situation ever smooth over?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

04:43 / 08.04.08

Yeah, we've been working since Thursday. Decent new contract. Tomorrow's the first open to the public day.

This Sunday

04:51 / 08.04.08

Cool. Be nice to get back to normal work, with a normalized schedule, I'd presume.

The phone finally stopped for the day, here, and the silence is kinda weirding me out.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

04:59 / 08.04.08

Please let us know if you begin to make ringing noises and answer imaginary calls.

This Sunday

05:06 / 08.04.08

My luck, they'd be trying to sell me imaginary siding.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

05:21 / 08.04.08

If you're lucky, I'll take you snark-hunting.

PMing you the first paragraph of something. I'd post, but it's a little Not Work Safe.

This Sunday

06:04 / 08.04.08

And that's it for me. I have to at least pretend to be conscious tomorrow around dawn (and thought it was just now ten, when it's... later).

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

01:29 / 12.04.08

Hour and a half of work left! Until tomorrow morning, anyway. Come to me, my Lateshift; heal my strangled brain.

This Sunday

01:47 / 12.04.08

Hiya!

I'm sorta around. Doing alright.

And left with no work I can't ignore until tomorrow.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

01:52 / 12.04.08

Sweet.

I'm actually scheduling myself writing time for next week, after feeling depressive and understimulated by my life today. I feel this rush of ... desire, desire to really push myself to do things.

What work are you ignoring?

Hello peoples!

Hello, Keggers!

Hi Deca. How's things?

This Sunday

02:21 / 12.04.08

Pretty good. Except I kinda broke my glasses/had them broken for me, so they don't stay on my face.

This Sunday

02:33 / 12.04.08

How's by you? Become a teetotaling Disney-fanatic, or, y'know, have you kept your wits about you?

Saint Keggers

02:39 / 12.04.08

not a chance. I like my boozamahol and hate disney.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

02:51 / 12.04.08

Ten minutes! And then I can go watch Lucky Number Slevin with the Accomplice and ice cream.

Saint Keggers

02:54 / 12.04.08

I did not like that movie.

This Sunday

03:08 / 12.04.08

I know it had a pretty good cast, but other than that, it's completely slid by me unnoticed.

Me, I'm gonna watch Streets of Fire tonight! Because I can't help myself.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

03:12 / 12.04.08

Dearest Barbelith,

I know this sounds lame and stupid, but I don't have a Live Journal account, and one of my old timey favourite authors does. Her kitten, one that she adopted after her one of her old cats died, is very sick, quite unexpectedly. I would like to give her my condolences but I can't as I am not a LiveJournal member. Please help if you can.

Thanks,

Kali

This Sunday

03:33 / 12.04.08

Hey, Kali. No Livejournal access, I'm afraid. Hope an avenue presents itself for you.

How're you doing, otherwise?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

03:44 / 12.04.08

Oh, I'm well. Just upset that somebody I respect is having her ass handed to her in ways I will never try to pretend to know; but to be honest, it's reading that one of her newly adopted kittens (with a twin brother!) has one of those incomprehensible diseases that animals are afflicted with. And it looks bleak.

Please pardon my bleeding heart, y'all.

This Sunday

03:53 / 12.04.08

Seeing has how Barbelith has held onto lolcats even as they wither across the internets, I'd sort of assumed we didn't allow anyone on whom cats did not have a very strong influence.

Page: 1 2 3 4 5(6)7 8

Add Your Reply