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Raymond Chandler is awesome.

After much personal reflection I have come to the decision that my personal idol and henceforth the image to which I will fore myself to live up to… Dr. Mindbender… Giant stache, Monocle, codpiece, purple cloak, multi-curricular mad scientist… roided our pecs…
http://bit.ly/10x6DMy

There are to great things about this weekend’s release of Iron Man 3. 1 - It si the first “big kid” superhero movie Carver is going to with me (sniff). 2 - It is then last nerd movie I will see without some contingent of the Chicago Nerd herd in effect.

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Awwww yeah

Ok, Baseball nerds, this is my Opening Day…

Boston. Fucking horrible. 

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, “Well, I’ve had it with humanity.”

But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths. 

But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness. 

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago. 

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, “The good outnumber you, and we always will.”

The Incredible Story of Wojtek, the Soldier Bear
Vincze Miklós, io9.com

An Iranian boy found a Syrian brown bear cub in 1942, and sold it to the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps for canned meat. That’s how the story of the most famous military animal started.Having lost his mother, the bear was fed…

A nazi fighting soldier bear? Where is the Hellboy team up?

A little Apocrypha for your morning. Pull out your audio version of the Geneva Bible for your commute.
http://bit.ly/Xo3OuC

The only time I have ever clicked on a Facebook ad… I could not resist… http://bit.ly/YyTtgc

Huey Lewis is here to ask you “Do You Like Huey Lewis and the News”

How Disney’s “Gargoyles” Might Look With a Modern Update
Nicole Wakelin, nerdapproved.com

The Disney cartoon series Gargoyles was hugely popular when it aired back in the 90′s but it definitely has a dated look to it now. Although no one has said anything about giving the series a modern reboot, DeviantArtist DigitalTofu has…

My favorite cartoon f the 90’s aside from Batman TAS

We would read this Scooby-Doo/Hellboy mash-up in a demon Great Dane’s heartbeat
Lauren Davis, io9.com

What happens when Mystery Inc. meets B.P.R.D? A concept that we’re sad isn’t a real comic. Cynthia Rodgers (with coloring help from her daughter Amanda) created this mash-up piece for CBR’s latest The Line it is Drawn challenge.Read more…

Tactile exploration is the basis of learning… Writing something down creates neural pathways that typing does not… Plus, doodling icons and pictograms still works better in my Moleskine than on my phone.

While it’s nice to see Rankin’s John Rebus and Sweden’s Harry Hole playing with the big boys, the oversight of Michael Connolly’s Harry Bosch, ANY of Ed Mcbain’s cast of the 87th Precinct or someone from Elmore Leonard’s universe makes this list disposable at best. If Jack Reacher can be on this list it opens up the playing field and surely allows better protagonists than the Paretsky heroine. I’d even include Rorschach from WATCHMEN, and Blomkvist & Salander from the Millennium trilogy

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Every time a self righteous, bigoted Republican shows their true colors, Bruch Reed and John Luzar go a little dance. It’s cuter than fluffy puppies carrying sleeping babies to a cuddle convention. http://nyti.ms/ZTawZ9