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Anyone who really knows me is aware of my obsessive devotion to the artist known as Peaches. Since 2001, I have been following her musical career and I have attended three live shows and plan on seeing a fourth in two weeks. Musician, activist, teacher, performance artist, she’s the real deal. She’s my Dalî and Gala rolled into one~ I completely align with her Raison d’être and feel it is my responsibilty to spread the teaches of Peaches.  She’s kind of like Phish in that you have to see her live to truly appreciate her magic. Go! Find her and study at her teet…

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So I have just reread the first 36 issues of Marvel’s New Warriors comic book series. Released during my freshman year of highschool in 1990, I quickly dropped the book once I got to college and the art and strorylines got even more ridiculous and lackluster. This was the first time I reread the adventures of Saturday morning hottie Firestar, Nova, Speedball, Namorita, Marvel Boy and the hackeneyed Night Thrasher. The stories were full of teen angst and after-school special moral lessons and lots of cosmic villians and deadly old vietnemese housekeepers. Did anyone else out there ever read this series? Thoughts? Comments?

So in a scant few hours the sun will be at the exact point it was when God created it on the Fourth Day of Creation. Every 28 years at dawn the sun returns to its point of origin and installation.  It is a moment of awe where we give thanks for the life and energy provided by the sun. It’s based on mathmetic equations and propigated by hippy jewsters and really really oberservant MOT. I think it’s a bit odd and pagan and it kinda reminds me of all the other odd things Jewish tradition teaches us.

The bond between a man and his local comic book store is mysterious and awkward. The ritual of return for the sequential art fix is ripe with potential. You never know who might join the conversation that flows from pychotropic drug references to favorite scenes from the Incredibles. Where else can you hear a sassy young woman proclaim, “Ah, that disctict fanboy musk that only a comic book store could have.”  Not to mention all the great comix I get each time! So this one goes out to all my personal comic book guys over the years…Ryan and Clint, and Brendan and co at Fat Jacks.