Weekend Table-Talk for July 26–27, 2008

Congratulations to Dzyd Douglas, whose Reading Comics has won the Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book!...Where did July go?...Not me...Atmospheric disturbances: Ridiculously great over-the-top cloud formation in this photo by Brit in Brooklyn...Best correction (in the Sunday NYTBR):

Correction: July 27, 2008
An illustration with the Up Front column last Sunday was published in error. The Howard Hampton it depicts is the leader of the New Democratic Party of Ontario, not the reviewer with the same name who was profiled in the column.

This week's review features a review of Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them, by Charles Taylor...not that Charles Taylor!...Too high, too far, too soon? You decide! Mandy Moore's cover of "The Whole of the Moon" (via Whatever)...Dzyd Rachel in the Times on peope who don't want to leave town once college is over. Best quote, from a guy who graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in West African film and literature: “That’s pretty much saying: no jobs ever”...

Or, 'What Are We Doing With Our Lives?'

The New-York Ghost turns the big "one"! Adrian's photo is rather apropos, no? I think it should be the Ghost's new motto.

(Check out A.K.'s special Ghost gallery here.)

Not 'Jaws'...

Today at 5 in Brooklyn: "Everyone's a (Former) Critic"...more here!...

On editing:

Pure pop for now, people

Team Knucklehead—the tunesmiths behind the contagious New-York Ghost theme song—has four new toe-tappers up at its site. Valentine's Day is over (per Billy Bragg), but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy "My Baby's Valentine," sure to already be a smash hit in some alternate universe.

(Members of Team Knucklehead and Psychic Envelopes refuse to answer questions pertaining to the existence of a rare collaboration between the two groups, circa the early ’90s, a/k/a the last century.)

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Minty green writer's room—captured!

Bowled over!

My avatar—spotted at my old "stomping grounds"?


(Thanks to BIB!)

Bowling for foie gras

Brit in...Buffalo?



[Photo by Adrian Kinloch.]

At Umamimart, Dizzyhead Hua turns out to be a great food writer and illustrator.