Apple’s New Online Music Service
“Now Mr. Jobs and his team have taken another dysfunctional, user-hostile product and bashed the ugliness out of it: the downloadable-music service.”
Author: Andrew Huey
Apple
I decided to check out Apple’s new music service today. Looks pretty good. Just for yuks, I bought a song — “Glad and Sorry” by the Faces. I was hoping I could find the cover by Golden Smog, but no luck. Also no luck finding “I Can’t Stop Loving You” by Ray Charles, which has been stuck in my head ever since I saw Metropolis.
Byrne
Funky Winkerbean follow-up:
And here’s a little article from the Kansas City Star.
Funky
This thread at CBR seems to confirm that Byrne is ghosting Funky Winkerbean.
Funky Winkerbean
Funky Winkerbean started a new storyline a couple of weeks ago. It’s pretty neat. I’ve noticed the art has been showing a serious John Byrne influence, and I’ve been wondering if it’s just coincidence, or if it’s on purpose, or if maybe Byrne is assisting Batiuk, or something like that. Well, today’s strip actually had a reference to Byrne, so I guess maybe there is some connection. Either way, the strip looks nice and reads well.
Dinosaur Jr
I bought a marked-down copy of Dinosaur Jr’s Without a Sound CD yesterday. I just looked at the receipt, and, rather than the title, it’s listed as “OFFBEAT GENERIC CD”. Weird. It’s like a little three-word record review. If I bought the new Madonna CD, would it show as “BORING MAINSTREAM TRASH”?
Singing Detective
The Singing Detective is out on DVD now. I remember watching this on PBS years ago. It’s great. The movie version will probably stink, though. Mel Gibson? Robert Downey Jr? Can’t be good.
SDCC
This guy has a nice page up on the San Diego Comic Con.
comics page
I just recently noticed that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a really good comics page.
Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit sell Japanese pudding.