tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55339262011-04-21T12:44:06.324-07:00Pull up a seat, grab a cuppa joe, and hang out for a whileOttonoreply@blogger.comBlogger1201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1113927115579278862005-04-19T08:32:00.000-07:002005-04-19T09:11:55.580-07:00

I know I've been remiss in posting lately, but I need some assistance from anyone who still stops by the old Coffee Shop.1) My wife has recently devoured Locas and Love & Rockets v. 2 and is hungry for more of Los Bros. However, with so much material out there and nothing in the indicia of Palomar and Locas, I can't tell what I already have. Can any fans of Los Bros. clue me in on which, if any,

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It's no surprise to most folks reading this site that I like the comical-type books. A recent meme-thing that popped up over the last few weeks among the comics blogs is to list 100 things that one likes about comics. I've been slowly compiling a list ever since reading Fred Hembeck and ADD's lists, and it's finally time to unveil it. Keep in mind, these are in no real order expect the order in

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Sometimes I wonder about the people who owned my house before me. From almost day one, we've received their mail - bills, the occasional check, social security statements, a delivery of some pharmaceuticals, their kids' Nickelodeon magazine - and, with the exception of the rare easily identifiable piece of junk mail, we've had to "Return to Sender" it all. Most of the time it's addressed to

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1108478888361508122005-02-15T06:37:00.000-08:002005-02-15T06:48:08.363-08:00

We're taking a break from our regularly scheduled Not Blogging here at Otto's Coffee Shop to bring you the following very important announcement:Today (yes, today) heralds the DVD release of one of the masterpieces of cinema, heretofore only available in an out of print VHS fullscreen transfer - Young Einstein, starring Yahoo Serious. As far as I can tell, even though this is not a Criterion

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1096645052456412752004-10-01T08:06:00.000-07:002004-10-01T08:37:32.456-07:00

For the few folks who are interested, I'm sorry I didn't get back to the aesthetics talk last night. I meant to get online last night, but I was absolutely captivated by the Presidential debate (strange as I've never watched the debates before). Hopefully, I'll get back to it tonight. In the meantime, though, some bullets that haven't made sense to fit in over the last few days. [If you're

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1096500930289109252004-09-29T16:33:00.000-07:002004-09-29T16:35:30.290-07:00

Still trying to work through my personal theory of aesthetics, if such a thing is possible. There've been some really insightful comments so far, which have clarified some of my thoughts and brought up some new questions, so let's get onto some replies. Dave Fiore says: "[T]his is precisely the problem with aesthetic hierarchies--it's all very well to claim that complex structure and

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1096414771440018332004-09-28T16:38:00.000-07:002004-09-28T16:39:31.440-07:00

Yesterday, I left my exploration of aesthetics with the conclusion of some initial thoughts that had been rattling around in my head over the last week or so. As predicted, simply getting those thoughts out of my head has made room in my poor caveman brain for some new thoughts, which I hope clarify my position, or at least open up new avenues for thought/discussion. I'd like to begin, though,

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1096326802634045242004-09-27T16:10:00.000-07:002004-09-27T16:13:22.636-07:00

Okay, I was trying to write up a review of Shaun of the Dead (maybe coming tomorrow; stay tuned!), but I'm clearly not going to get any reviews written until I gather some thoughts brought on by some recent posts by Dave Fiore and Ed Cunard (in response to a post by Alan David Doane; aren't we comics bloggers an incestuous lot?). Their posts are in relation to comics' (lack of) legitimacy or

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1096069351997684952004-09-24T16:40:00.000-07:002004-09-24T16:42:31.996-07:00

While perusing Amazon the other day, I found two other interesting comic-related entries: -X-Men: Complete Age of Apocalypse v. 1 (4/04) - listed as a paperback for $29.99. No page count given. -X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic TP (4/04) - paperback (obvious from the title) at $14.99 for 144 pages. For those who may not know or remember, the Age of Apocalypse was an X-Men story from

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1096054635422638862004-09-24T12:30:00.000-07:002004-09-24T12:37:15.423-07:00

Trolling Amazon the other day, trying to decide how to spend a gift certificate that I got for Christmas last year, I started playing one of my favorite games: try to find advance info on comic collections that haven't been announced yet. I'm happy to say that it looks like Marvel appears to be continuing to release their Essentials volumes (500-600 page black and white reprints of older comics

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1095199584503583632004-09-14T15:00:00.000-07:002004-09-14T15:06:24.503-07:00

Join me in congratulating friend 808 Turn Volvo on the birth of his son, Sean Ethan Clinton Volvo, on Saturday night. Sean Ethan joins 808 in his fight against the icky girls (Mrs. 808, his two sisters and his two aunts) to, y'know, do guy things like leave the toilet seat up and, um, hang around the house in his boxer shorts. Good luck fighting the good fight, 808 and Sean! [If you click over

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1094254013419038882004-09-03T15:52:00.000-07:002004-09-03T16:26:53.420-07:00

One last post, before I head out to Kansas City to celebrate Labor Day the old fashioned way - by spending Saturday and Monday driving eight hours in order to see friends and family for about 36 hours. Big box o' comics arrived this week, containing fewer graphic novels than last month, but those which came should make for some good reading: B. Krigstein Comics, Action Hero Archives (cheesy, I

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1094138009632321152004-09-02T08:11:00.000-07:002004-09-02T08:13:29.633-07:00

With the NFL season nearly upon us, and hopefully a chance for the Chiefs to redeem last year's playoff bungle (okay, more like a chance for their defense to get the job done), I let a couple of my friends talk me into signing up for one of those ever-so-not-geeky (according to them) NFL Fantasy Football leagues. I suspect it's just anticipation of the season finally beginning, but I had way too

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1093965573011700622004-08-31T04:45:00.000-07:002004-08-31T08:19:33.010-07:00

Sunday, on one of my now infrequent trips to Half Price Books (infrequent because HPB stores in Texas tend to have both a worse selection and worse prices than those in Wisconsin), I came across two particular comics-related gems, neither of which I ever thought I'd find at a discount shop. The first is The Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics (used, $7.95), a book which I've heard about for

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1093619772934523312004-08-27T08:08:00.000-07:002004-08-27T08:16:12.933-07:00

Yesterday's post got me thinking about games a little bit. The fact is, while I love poker, I can have great fun playing just about any game at which I can be at least somewhat competitive (which rules out most games involving physical coordination, since I'm just a little more coordinated than a drunken moose). To me, the competition is half the fun, though, and if I'm playing a game where no

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1093576527180589202004-08-26T18:35:00.000-07:002004-08-26T20:15:27.180-07:00

As longtime frequenters of this here establishment probably know by know, I love playing poker. There's something almost electric about sitting down, buying in, getting your chips and breaking out a fresh deck. Even if you're only playing $0.25, $0.50, $1 chips, it still has that feel. Thinking back, I've probably always had an affinity for the cards, even without the gambling. I remember

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1093475037023764492004-08-25T15:59:00.000-07:002004-08-25T20:02:18.970-07:00

I can't believe Scott Tipton has been talking about one of my giddy fanboy faves for five installments of his excellent Comics 101 column (that I clearly don't check often enough), and I'm just now finding out about it? In case I've never made it explicitly clear who my favorite superhero team is, I'm talking about the world's first superhero team - the Justice Society of America! Scott spends

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1093391277292994472004-08-24T16:37:00.000-07:002004-08-24T16:47:57.293-07:00

Tim O'Neil has a piece up today about Oni Press and the New Mainstream that they, along with AiT/PlanetLar, represent for comics. That is, they don't do superheroes, but they don't quite do those intensely personal, out there, artsy or self-consciously literary stories that companies like Fantagraphics or Drawn & Quarterly do. Oni has its stable of talented creators who do what they do, and

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1093305712299770982004-08-23T17:00:00.000-07:002004-08-23T17:01:52.300-07:00

Right, then, where was I? Oh yes, The Beach: novel by Alex Garland, movie directed by Danny Boyle from a screenplay by Garland. The film version of The Beach hit a few years ago like a 10 ton chocolate Easter Bunny - that is to say that it was much anticipated as Leonardo DiCaprio's return to the big screen after achieving heartthrob status in Titanic, by the director of Trainspotting and

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1093275403713590812004-08-23T08:35:00.000-07:002004-08-23T09:21:52.893-07:00

In case you haven't picked up on it yet, I really like movies: good movies, bad movies, huge studio blockbusters, little art-house flicks, documentaries, straight-to-video stinkers, you name it. It probably also seems like I don't have very discriminating taste in movies (I mean, I saw Taking Lives in the theater, right?), but the fact is that I can be fairly discriminating when I need to be,

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1092701519038911132004-08-16T16:59:00.000-07:002004-08-17T06:19:18.920-07:00

I see today that Dirk Deppey has brought back Journalista! to both TCJ.com and to the pages of The Comics Journal as a regular column. It's hard to believe that we comics folks have now been living without our daily dose of Deppey for over six months now (can that be right?) and while Kevin, Shane and others have been doing a bang-up job collecting the links around the net, I've really missed the

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1092695036181504872004-08-16T15:21:00.000-07:002004-08-16T15:23:56.180-07:00

Okay, trying this again. Hopefully, I'll be able to get my blog on better this go round than I was a few weeks ago. I was supposed to go out of town last weekend to meet up with some friends that I haven't seen in far too long. Unfortunately, that trip was cancelled at the last minute, leaving me with a "free" weekend. Since Mrs. Coffee Shop had already made plans for most of Saturday and part

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1091738726487758562004-08-05T13:45:00.000-07:002004-08-05T13:48:19.196-07:00

So, no sooner do I profess to having writer's dread and being unable to write anything interesting, than Ken Lowery decides to link to my site. Thanks a bunch, Ken! (just kidding, I always appreciate being linked to). [image copyright Marvel Comics, or something like that]

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Man, it's hard to get started again. I went something like three or four months, opening discussions here at the shop (almost) every weekday. Even though I usually just posted knee jerk reactions/reviews to every movie or TV show that I watched or talked some smack about comics, the fact is I was writing and I had some measure of discipline in doing so. And for those of you who've known me for a

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1091233102278362392004-07-30T17:12:00.000-07:002004-07-30T17:18:22.276-07:00

Sorry posting has been so light around here lately. With no Internet connection at home (seriously, anyone know a decent dial-up provider I can use for a month with no strings attached?), a long commute and -gasp- actually working while at work (I know this may shock some of you, but I actually do work), blogging has taken a back seat for a bit. Mrs. Coffee Shop is out of town this weekend,

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1090969347722175652004-07-27T15:22:00.000-07:002004-07-27T16:02:27.723-07:00

Ever since I started ordering my comics via mail order, I've found myself checking Diamond's Shipping List much less regularly than I used to when I was an every Wednesday kinda guy. But today, I had a moment to kill, so I thought I'd check the list and see what I can expect in this month's big box o' comics. All I have to say is "hokey smokes!" Were I an every Wednesday guy, this Wednesday would

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1090947269596545832004-07-27T09:43:00.000-07:002004-07-27T09:54:29.596-07:00

Sorry I haven't been posting very much lately; I promise to post more regularly when I finally get an Internet hook-up at home. Speaking of which, does anyone know of a relatively cheap dial-up provider I could use for six weeks or so until September, when my Dee Ess Ell is finally hooked up? From what I can tell, both Earthlink and AOL require service commitments, which I'm unwilling to get

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Conventional wisdom seems to be that comic books are for kids, or adult men whose development arrested sometime around age 14, but as I rarely ever see kids in the comic shop, or if they're there it's because their dad dragged them along with him, I often doubt the veracity of this argument. Of course, not spending much time around kids, what do I know about what kids like or don't like? So it

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1090347111241845292004-07-20T11:02:00.000-07:002004-07-20T11:32:38.876-07:00

In digging through my files, I've come across several blog mini-essays that I never got around to finishing, so for the next few days I may be bringing up some older issues that I wanted to weigh in on. Sorry in advance to my non-comics reading friends, but most of these essays are comics-related because 1) it's summer, so I'm not watching TV much; 2) I'm too busy doing stuff around the house to

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1090273104158709932004-07-19T14:36:00.000-07:002004-07-19T14:38:24.156-07:00

I haven't done any reviews around here lately, which is kind of odd since I spent the Spring writing almost solely reviews, mainly because I haven't been watching much TV and since I haven't been blogging from home, I've sort of missed the opportunity to get my immediate thoughts down on movies. That said, I've seen a few movies recently, so here's my quick takes on some summer movies. *

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Things Mrs. Coffee Shop and I did this weekend: -Painted the living room and kitchen (this was one of those things where the missus woke up at 3:00 Saturday morning and announced she wanted to do it before the new living room furniture arrived. I was still up, sorting comics so Saturday could be spent on other chores, but I hated the yellow wash-style paint that the previous owners had used, so

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1089934556383831062004-07-15T16:33:00.000-07:002004-07-15T16:35:56.383-07:00

One of the reasons I was excited to move into my new house was so that all of my comics could finally live in the same place. I had never seen them all in the same place before (and I still haven't; there're still a few boxes at my parents' house in KC), so I was a bit surprised and overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of boxes once I had recovered them all from storage and "storage" (yes, I paid to

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1089832570167581002004-07-14T12:13:00.000-07:002004-07-14T12:16:10.166-07:00

My good friend Indy's recent posting about how he tried to like Rush but never could, got me thinking about how the tastes of one's friends or peer group can influence one's own tastes, and not necessarily in a good way. You see, in high school and college I, along with many of my peers, prided myself in not liking whatever was popular. Especially when it came to music, I actively avoided

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1089213036107323112004-07-07T08:07:00.000-07:002004-07-07T08:10:36.106-07:00

Last night, after an excruciatingly long day, I arrived home from work to find a package from my good friend Bruce Sato. Knowing my misery at missing Rush this summer on their 30th anniversary tour, Bruce made me a copy of the bootleg from the first date of their tour. In my opinion, there's few better ways to pick yourself up after a long day than listening to one of the greatest live bands in

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1089141780630272192004-07-06T12:17:00.000-07:002004-07-06T12:23:00.630-07:00

I was going to save this for later in the week, but seeing as I'm starting to get links from the comics-weblog-update-a-tron, I figure I better put up some comics content or I'll lose the small readership I have. For the record, this means that I'll probably skip a day as far as new content later this week: Last year, I made FCBD a bit of an "event," with Mrs. Coffee Shop even agreeing to tag

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1089131724060199602004-07-06T09:35:00.000-07:002004-07-06T09:35:24.060-07:00

That last entry, along with most of what I'm planning to put up this week, was written over the weekend. I may have time to do a little editing, but that may be how I get around the "how to find time for blogging with no Internet connection." That said, I can't resist putting up one more moving story today about how some people never learn. About a week before we moved, Mrs. Coffee Shop and I

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Phew, was it ever nice to be back at work last week! I never thought I'd say that, but the whole moving/unpacking experience took a lot out of me physically, so it was a nice break to have to sit at a desk all day, regardless of how busy I was. Physically, my back and my knees are still recovering (the knee hurts because of the "lift with your legs" advice, the back hurts because the knee started

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1087876822642236732004-06-21T20:52:00.000-07:002004-06-21T21:00:22.643-07:00

In case you didn't pick up on my none too subtle hints recently, the wife and I are relocating to Texas, leaving tomorrow. This is why blogging has been light the last few days, and why it will pretty much be non-existent for the next week and a half or so (unless we happen to stay in a hotel with free Internet access one night). Even though we move in to our new home on Saturday, we likely won't

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1087408346694657622004-06-16T10:08:00.000-07:002004-06-16T10:52:26.693-07:00

Okay, I've been avoiding talking about it for a couple of days now, but since Johnny B. called me out this morning and started the discussion, I figure I better put up a Deadwood review. Bear with me because I was trying to pack while watching the show (multi-tasking is never a good prospect for me, unless the other task is playing Tetris on my Gameboy, something I do pretty much whenever I watch

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Courtesy of Fanboy Rampage, I found what appear to be Marvel's September solicits on Millarworld. To be honest, there's only two books on the list that I would say I'm excited for: The Essential Super-Villain Team-Up and The Ultimates v. 1 HC. Even those, I'm not as excited as I might be because buzz on the second half of The Ultimates was kind of lukewarm (I'm hoping that was just people's

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1087232867786943182004-06-14T10:06:00.000-07:002004-06-14T15:28:26.606-07:00

One thing I didn't do over the weekend was go see Rush, like my friends J. and Bruce Sato did. It's probably been 10 years since I last saw the very first band I was ever really into (as opposed to just buying a tape because I liked a single on the radio), and even though I rarely listen to them anymore, I wish I could catch them on their thirtieth anniversary tour this summer. Unfortunately,

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I finally finished watching Buffy season 3 on Friday night (if you've been stopping by for awhile, you may recall that I'm working my way through watching Buffy and Angel all the way through). While I had missed fewer first-run episodes of this season than 1 or 2, I never fail to be surprised by my faulty memory. I had remembered Faith having a much larger role in the season and, while she's

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While packing on Saturday night, or preparations for packing (you know, like those little things that you have to sort before you can pack), the missus and I watched two movies: In America and The Battle of Shaker Heights. In America was another fantastic film by Jim Sheridan (The Boxer, My Left Foot) about an Irish family who illegally immigrates to New York City to try to get a fresh start

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1087232265808943962004-06-14T09:49:00.000-07:002004-06-14T15:30:16.930-07:00

If you haven't picked up a copy of the new McSweeney's #13, set down your coffee, click over to Amazon and do so right now (hmm, Amazon says that it hasn't been released yet. I wonder what I'm looking at over to the right of my desk which calls itself McSweeney's #13?). For those not in the know, McSweeney's is Dave Eggers' literary periodical (it started as a quarterly magazine, but at least the

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Okay, Monday morning usually brings lots of hits to Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe, probably from worker bees needing their caffeine fix before descending into their workday of cubicle hell (hey, after one more week of working from home bliss, I'm right there with you), so gotta put up some less geeky content than what I posted on Saturday. Unfortunately, I don't know that I have much non-geeky to talk

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Everybody else is doing it, so why shouldn't I? Only I'm going to start off with a twist: dream projects by specific creators. Kevin Nowlan HC OGN - I just can't get enough of Nowlan's all-too-rare pencils. DC needs to back a truck up to Nowlan's house, ask him what he wants to draw and who he wants to write it and give him five years to produce a 128 page OGN. I don't care if it's Superman,

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Been trying to sleep for a few hours now, but I've got a headache that just won't let me. So I figure what better way to try to put myself to sleep than to go off on a comics rant? It seems to put so many visitors to the coffee shop to sleep! [Please excuse any glaring lapses in logic that may appear below, they're the headache talking]. Last summer it seemed like the whole comics blogosphere

Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533926.post-1086873305734592162004-06-10T05:46:00.000-07:002004-06-10T08:09:39.476-07:00

For those not in HBO-know, Sunday night saw the end of season five of The Sopranos, one of the best-written shows ever to grace the small screen, which means two things: 1) I have to wait 18 months until the beginning of the 10-episode final season and 2) it's time to think back on the season and offer my thoughts for discussion here at the Shop. AHOY, MATEY, THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD To begin

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Ah, summer. Back in the day, the end of school used to herald one of my favorite seasons - concert season! Sure I went to concerts year-round, but it always seemed like summer was the time when more bands that I liked came through KC, and a lot of my summers were scheduled around who was coming to Sandstone (local outdoor amphitheatre) or Memorial Hall (local indoor concert venue). Sadly, as I've

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Is it Tuesday already? How'd that happen? So much to talk about, and not enough time right now to write much at all, so apologies in advance if blogging is light, or at least posts are shorter than usual for the next couple of weeks (leading up to what may be a two week hiatus when I move back to Texas). So, Deadwood. Everyone still watching it, right? Well, Sunday's episode (written by Ricky

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My good friend Bruce Sato discusses one of my favorite bad horror movies, Burial Ground, over at his Korean Web Log. For a good long while, Bruce, J. and I pretty much only rented bad horror movies. Three at a time. Every. Single. Weekend. Our goal was to find the worst of the worst, and we watched some pretty bad ones (unfortunately, I don't believe Bruce has ever seen the pinnacle of bad horror

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Damn, is it Friday evening already? What a week, and you know what they say, all work and no blogging makes Otto a dull barista, or it would if I even knew what that was. Around here, we don't have your fancy-schmancy European coffees, served by turtleneck- and beret-wearing, goatee-sporting beatnik types. We just good old-fashioned American truck stop coffee, served by butch waitresses named Flo

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I'm a bit late on this one, as we were having bad weather up here in Milwaukee the night of the season ender, so the finale was pre-empted by a weather alert and I missed taping it. Luckily, I was able to find a friend who still had it on her TiVo and she taped it and mailed it to me so I wasn't in suspense all summer (whew! I know, lucky break, huh?). If you don't watch the show, the high

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As long-time frequenters of the Shop know, I really enjoy playing, and talking about, poker. And when I can't be playing poker myself (which is all too often), I actually like to watch it on TV (shocking, I know). It's not quite the same, and it certainly doesn't give me the same charge that I get when I'm actually playing, but it allows me to try out my mad poker skillz (ha!) that I've picked up

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I'm having some trouble jump-starting the old writing center of my brain this morning, so in order to get some new content up at the Shop, I'm answering some questions posed on The Comics Journal message board (courtesy of Alan David Doane. Welcome back to the blogosphere, Alan!): 1. Do you tend to go to the nearest store, the best store, any store, or does it matter? Before I started doing the

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Great discussion in the comments yesterday, and some interesting thoughts on other blogs as well, notably Motime and 808 Turn Volvo. [side note to Dave Intermittent, and anyone coming over from the Intermittent: I intentionally didn't say that comics aren't cool, and I hope that wasn't what you took away from the essay. I tried to stay away from making any kind of value judgment on comics as a

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Today I was going to talk a couple of specific criticisms of the "X-Books," however, as my good friend Indy is going on vacation tomorrow, and I'd like to get his thoughts on this post, I'm finally finishing off a post I started weeks ago regarding my thoughts on why I think more people (primarily adults) don't read comic books. I'll get to the X-Books later today or tomorrow, I'd imagine. If you

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Been busy today, with no time to think through any proper posts/reviews at the moment (probably more tonight, since the missus is still out of town). In the meantime, I've been thinking recently about really good/fun runs from Marvel comics past. I seem to read a fair amount about certain "classic" modern runs like Simonson's Thor, Claremont/Byrne's X-Men, PAD's Hulk and X-Factor and Byrne's FF (

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Just finished watching the 24 season finale and I have to say that the season ended on a definite up (not necessarily upbeat) note. If you haven't watched the finale, stop reading here because there are most definitely big fat SPOILERS AHEAD (that means stop reading now, indy. You can comment on this post when your VCR gets fixed) As far as a finale for this season goes, I don't think I

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I've been writing an awful lot about Deadwood, haven't I? So much so that easily 95% of the Google searchers who find their way to this particular coffee shop do so while looking for more information on the various characters on the show. I guess that's flattering, but since none of them ever leave any comments, I don't know if they find what they're looking for here or not. Ah well, once more

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Wow, whatta ride. I think we all pretty much knew that Adrianna wasn't long for this world from the beginning of the season, but I must confess that even I, jaded Sopranos fan that I am, found myself hoping that she and Chris would go into the program and live happily ever after. At least until that absolutely heartbreaking scene (which I haven't seen mentioned everywhere else) where Ade leaned

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I know, I missed a day yesterday. I just couldn't work up the energy to write about anything other than the fact that Mrs. Coffee Shop is in Texas right now looking at houses while I sit up here having only cyber and phone input, and I know most folks who read this could care less about that. But I'm back now, and hope to have a whole mess o'reviews across the pop culture spectrum in the next few

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I don't know about anyone else, but I love Marvel's Essentials line of black and white phonebook-sized reprints. They provide a great chance for young whipper-snappers like me to read 20-25 issues of an older comic series for dirt cheap. Some would argue that you get what you pay for, and that the newsprint quality paper and the poor reproduction quality of certain issues (a lot of the reprints

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Between fighting off a migraine and the resultant lack of sleep, I'm really just not feeling particularly creative and/or thoughtful this week. Nonetheless, I'm going to try to pull together some thoughts on last night's Angel finale, and where I think they can/should go from here with the Whedon-verse. If that's not your thing, that's cool, feel free to skip on over to Bruce Sato's for

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Original Pirate Material, the debut album by the "BritRap" band (actually just one guy) The Streets, was one of my favorite CDs of 2002. The music is only marginally more complex than the late Wesley Willis' infamous Casio keyboard preprogrammed beats (in fact, I think I heard that most of the music on the record is sampled from video games); the guy can't really sing or rap, and his thick accent

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Didn't sleep so well last night, which resulted in me getting up later than usual, which resulted in not having time to write an in-depth post for today. That said, one of my goals for this here Coffee Shop is to write something every weekday, and I don't want to miss a day, because it's just a slippery-slope after that, so here's some this'n'that bullets: * Rejoice! Bill Simmons, writer of the

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In case this is your first time visiting, or you haven't watched last night's episode of Deadwood, there will be SPOILERS ahead, and in the comments. Right then, lots to discuss. Let's jump right in to the meat of the episode: the convening of a council of concerned citizens to form a "government," or a group to facilitate bribing federal officials when the Black Hills territories (including

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Ugh. I somehow knew things would get ugly when I didn't let Friday's post simmer long enough before posting it up for the world to see. To begin with, I'm sorry. I should not written last Friday's comic journalism post in such a way that one could leave with the idea that I think current comics journalists are doing less than their best in their presentation of comics news and commentary. Any

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Now that I've almost doubled my daily readership (8! Hits! Per! Day!), thanks to the three questions blog-meme, I figured "what better time to alienate my non-comics readers than to put up a big ole post about comics?" If you normally skip the comics posts, now would be a good time to stop reading. To begin with, allow me to establish some bona fides, for whatever they're worth. I've been a

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Phew! Yesterday's little Q & A in the comments certainly kept me busy, and probably revealed a little more about me than I'm entirely comfortable with, but that's okay. I said I'd be truthful. Now, though, I want to learn a little about you, specifically why you come by this here establishment, and even more specifically I'd like to hear from those of you who are normally scared off by the gang

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Courtesy of Will at Be the Boy: 3 Questions I want everyone and anyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want and I will truthfully answer it. Then, I want you to go to your blog, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.* Go ahead, I dare you. *It's probably obvious, but responses will appear in the comment

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This week's Deadwood seemed to revolve around the theme of men and women, who wears the pants and what one can make the other do. On one hand, we've got the admittedly married and generally morally upstanding Seth Bullock who is trying to convince the widow Garrett to stay in Deadwood, despite it genuinely appearing to be in her best interest to take Trixie and the little girl (is her name Sophie

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I must have left my muse back on my pillow when I woke up, as I'm really not feeling it today. I keep trying to write up a worthwhile post, as I feel like I have things to talk about, but I just can't work up the energy to write about anything in a very interesting way. So, here's some bullet-point blogging to keep up appearances: *Old Friends: Spent the weekend just outside Chicago at an old

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I mentioned long ago, in my first TV post, that I watch one other show, but I was too embarrassed to talk about it at the time, or to include it in my weekly TV reviews. At last, though, the truth must be told: I have become addicted to Survivor: All-Stars. The only time I'd ever watched Survivor prior to this Spring was to watch the latter half of a few first and second season shows when

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This weekend, I'm going to the wedding of a friend from high school whom I probably haven't seen in ten years. Last week, another friend I hadn't talked to in ten years googled me, found this blog, and sent me an email. I also reconnected with Brandon, with whom I had been out of regular contact since his wedding in 2000. Finally, last night I talked on the phone with yet another old friend, one

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I don't do much eBay shopping; it's entirely too stressful to watch things I'm bidding on get bought out from under me at the last minute. However, about once a year, I go on an eBay "binge" and win 5 or 6 auctions in the space of a month. Last year, I used eBay to complete my collection of the 70s All Star Comics run, and the subsequent JSA run in Adventure comics. While I generally think I got

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You must read this. (courtesy Larry Young (scroll to the April 26 entry)). I know you're tempted not to read it, but trust me, if you think crackheads are funny, it'll make you laugh.

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As part of it's Q1 2004 earnings report, Marvel announced it's upcoming movie releases (courtesy of Newsarama): "Marvel also ran down its current production slate in its release, with Spider-Man 2, Man-Thing and Blade: Trinity being its three remaining film releases for 2004. "The company anticipated the following films in 2005: Elektra (2/18/05); Fantastic Four (7/2/05); Iron Man (11/05);

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Haven't done any TV show reviews for a little over a week, so I'll play catch-up. Since I never know the names of episode numbers of the shows, I'll identify them by original air date. Like before, there will be SPOILERS AHEAD, so consider yourself warned. The Sopranos (4/25) - Just what we needed after the intensity of the last few weeks: some downtime and a good whacking (everyone caught the

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Ever since I started buying the majority of my comics from Mail Order Comics, my Wednesday trips to the comic shop have been somewhat unfulfilling. In theory, I still get the books I'm most excited about at the LCS, and wait till the end of the month for the rest, including any graphic novels/collections. Unfortunately, that means that I end up getting about 5-6 comics a week, which is

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I've seen a fair number of movies lately, both in the theatre and on DVD. Rather than go into a lengthy review of each one (most of them don't deserve it), I'm going to attempt to do capsule reviews. Hopefully it'll be clear which movies I saw in the theatre and which ones I rented. SPOILER WARNING *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Um, wow. This is what movies are all about; too bad I

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Just wanted to take a moment to welcome my friend Brandon to the world of blogging. Brandon and I haven't really talked much for the last few years, but we wasted many an evening in high school watching Beavis and Butthead and Alternative Nation (with Kennedy!) on MTV, and generally being surly about anything "cool" or "popular." Brandon also introduced me to some of my now-favorite bands,

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I've recently come to the conclusion, based on the comments I get, that this establishment tends to be frequented either by folks who come here just for the comics talk or those who come for everything else (movies, TV, poker, etc), with only rare instances of overlap. As a result, I've been thinking about starting up a new blog just for the comics talk, and leaving this one for everything else

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With the wife out of town, I had considered hitting up one of the local (or semi-local) casinos for some blackjack. For a variety of reasons, none of them particularly good, I didn't. Instead, I stuck Rounders in the DVD player and got my kicks vicariously through Mikey McD and the gang. The first time I saw Rounders was in the theatre. At that time, I had never really played poker, other than

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For the last few months, I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD, starting from the very beginning of season 1 (as of last night, I've watched through season 3, episode 5). I believe I've mentioned before that Buffy was a show that I initially started watching because a roommate in DC was a Buffy fanatic and I had nothing better to do. Eventually (as in shortly after the start of

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One of the things I miss most about my life in LA is the weekly poker game. I moved to Texas to get married almost exactly two years ago, and I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've played cards since then. Outside of so-called "business trips" back to LA, which I consider to be a way to expense my poker habit, I think I've played exactly once, and that was when Billy and David

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Just got the new email newsletter from Mile High Comics, and in it MHC President Chuck Rozanski announces that they have posted the entirety of the first issue of Joe Quesada's Daredevil: Father mini-series (due out 4/28) on their web site. From a quick first glance, it appears as if Quesada is using a new style which seems to owe more to Frank Miller than his own previous work on the character.

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Some quick-ish TV reviews, because I want to: SPOILERS AHEAD I don't know what idiot decided to program 24 at the same time on Sunday night as Alias and The Sopranos, but they through off my whole taping schedule. It did, however, allow me to watch four of my favorite shows on the same night. 24 - Wow. I didn't think that Jack would really do it. I guess Chapelle was being punished for

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That last post was almost ungodly long and since both John Jakala and Tegan Gjovaag linked to me over the weekend, I don't want to scare any new readers off with a really long first entry. Besides, Peter David just posted his thoughts on both volumes of Kill Bill, and he makes more interesting points than I did in half the words (the entry is from April 19, but the permalinks aren't working, so

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It's been a perfectly SoCal weekend in Wisconsin, despite some wind, so what do I do? Spend all day Saturday at the movies! (To be fair, we did take the dog to the park yesterday, so I didn't spend all weekend indoors). Actually Mrs. Coffee Shop was busy studying, and apparently I was being "distracting," so I was told that a double feature might be "a good idea" for Saturday afternoon. Who am I

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The NFL posted the regular and post-season schedules today, and my Chiefs have five National games (three Monday night, one Sunday night, and one on Christmas Day). Beyond that, their schedule looks pretty good. Not playing the Bengals or the Jets, so I won't be winning any money this year, but I think I'll live.

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You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla [courtesy of Shane] So don't fuck with me when it comes to grammar. (programming is another story. Anyone know why the picture of the Grammar God won't show up?)

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One of the joys in my very simple life, is my weekly or semi-weekly trip to Half Price Books. Those of you who don't live near at least one location of HPB are really missing out, as it's far and away the best book chain I've ever frequented. The premise is simple: they buy all kinds of books from people and then sell them for half the cover price or less. And if a book hangs out too long on

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I can't seem to work up the energy to post much in depth today; work's been quite busy and I was up early this morning with a headache. So in lieu of my usual long-winded posts, I'm just going to bullet point some thoughts out: *I know that I'm late on the Homestar Runner bandwagon, having learned about it from Will less than a month ago, but if anyone hasn't been over to www.homestarrunner.com

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One of things that really irritates me in a narrative, particularly a plot-based narrative, is that it seems like very few writers know how to end a story anymore. Many writers can come up with great hooks to begin a story, and can deliver twist after twist in the middle to keep you interested in what's going on, but they can't seem to come up with a satisfactory ending. I am generally willing

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Things I didn't buy at Barnes & Noble with my $35 gift certificate today: *Doyle Brunson's Super/System *The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky *Championship No Limit & Pot Limit Hold 'Em by Cloutier and McElvoy Things I did buy: *Bjork's 5 disc live box set Why? Although I'm not ready to make the determination yet, there comes a point in a man's life when he must decide if he has the cojones

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Soundtrack: Cassius, Au Reve Sorry I haven't blogged for a few days; I've been busy with taxes, car repairs, a comic show, work and, well, quite frankly, I'm tired. Not tired from everything I've been doing, because I'm well aware that what I do is nowhere near as tiring as, say, working full time while going to school full time, having a pregnant wife and trying to raise an 8 year old and a 16

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While it may seem hard to believe, between about 1988 and 1993, I didn't watch TV except for Saturday Night Live, the movie channels, and select programming on MTV. I honestly couldn't be bothered with spending the time actually watching TV when I could read the TV Guide through from cover to cover in the span of one trip to the john. Oh sure, there were occasions on Friday or Saturday nights

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I've been thinking a lot lately about memory: what creates memories and why I can't remember some things while others stick with me forever. I actually studied memory in junior high for a month or so in the "gifted" class, but as my gifted class was really just an hour a day when a bunch of socially inept misfits could get together and feel marginally less outcast, it became more of a social hour

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One of the benefits of working from home is that you can sometimes turn the TV on in the middle of the day (if you're my boss, though, I only do this at lunch time, I promise). It should be noted that the reason most people work during the day is because there is nothing of any significant interest on during working hours, save reruns and talk shows. On rare occasions, however, you'll find

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