Link of the Month:
The Drawing Board
My new favorite online community message board! Set up by the inimitible Shane Glanes, this is where aspiring artists and cartoonists can go and share their work with other artists for feedback, comments, praise, or just to put it out there. Look for posts by ANGRY BEEF and you'll know that's me!
DVD of the Month:
Napoleon Dynamite
This film is sweet. It's got numchuck skillz... bo-staff skillz. God! You haven't seen it? Idiot. Can you bring me my chap stick? But my lips really hurt!
Book of the Month:
For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs by Robert A. Heinlein
This is Heinlein's first and never-before-published "novel." It's really just a Utopian essay with some characters and, well, not really any plot thrown in. But it's a fascinating look at the proto-Heinlein. This is the first thing he ever wrote, and if you read his entire body of work (like I have) you can see how he extracted all the ideas in this book and put small pieces here and there in his other stories—but executed them better. It's like this book is a rough draft for everything he would ever later write. It isn't very good as a straight literary read, but it's fascinating as a monumentally important piece of Heinlein (and SF) history.
