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ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Media Release -- This coming February, Marvel Entertainment will release THE INVINCIBLE GENE COLAN. It is a stunning visual tribute and biography of one of the most brilliant, sublime and influential comic artists in the genre's history. Including observations from Stan Lee, Neil Gaiman, Walter Simonson, Marv Wolfman, Tom Palmer and John Romita Sr., it also contains tons of Gene's beautiful, eye-popping...
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tomgpalmer.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
My talk to the Oxford University Libertarian Society on “Anarchism, Limited Government, and Liberalism: A Modest Case for Sacking the State”: Tom Palmer – “Anarchism, Limited Government & Liberalism: A Modest Case for Sacking the State” from oxford libertarian on Vimeo. (I had not had a chance to listen to it before, but I think it [...]
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
If the battle stemming from Tom Palmer comments over The New York Times best seller, Meltdown by Tom Woods, hasn't satisfied your lust for fight, don't miss the body slams going on around the climatology chapter in Superfreakonomics the new Steven D. Levitt/Stephen J. Dubner book.Bob Murphy gets in the ring on this one, separates the participants, and then starts throwing a few body slams of his
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Stefan Karlsson's blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Tom Palmer has a strange critique of Tom Woods' book Meltdown and the Austrian Business Cycle Theory presented there: "In fact, what we saw was a bubble in housing, which is not a “long-term project” that will “bear fruit only in the distant future,” but a speculative investment in a durable consumer good, with an additional twist: the low refinancing rates and the inducements...
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
There is a major street brawl going on between Tom Palmer and some members of the Austrian school of economics.The brawl started when out of the blue, in a review of a Johan Norberg book about the financial crisis, Palmer threw this in:...Norberg is a smart guy, a meticulous researcher, and a good writer, but because it’s an exercise in economic analysis and financial journalism, with no religion...
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tomgpalmer.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Tom Palmer – “Anarchism, Limited Government & Liberalism: A Modest Case for Sacking the State” from oxford libertarian on Vimeo. I haven’t had a chance to watch through it, but I had nightmares afterwards that I had misspoken on an important matter, that is, on the absolute incomes of the lowest decile of income in [...]
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The Glass Walking-Stick (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
As Halloween is nearly upon us I thought I'd give the John Buscema Avengers banner a rest for a while and go with some lovely Gene Colan Dracula art. And as a bonus here's another pic of Drac, giving it the full Lord Of Vampires treatment. Despite all the great actors to have portrayed Vlad the lad over the years - Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Gary Oldman, Louis Jordan, er, George Hamilton...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Bath 27-29 Stade Français Julien Dupuy returned to ruin Bath's Heineken Cup ambitions for a second successive season as Stade Français stole a dramatic victory at the Recreation Ground. The scrum-half's seventh penalty, one minute from full time condemned Bath to their second successive Pool 4 defeat. No team has ever reached the quarter-finals after losing their opening two group games....
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Diversions of the Groovy Kind (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
One of the cool things Marvel always did with their mystery/horror titles back in the Groovy Age was their adaptations of the works of classic horror writers. You can't get much more classic--or horrifying--than the macabre masterpieces of H.P. Lovecraft, dig? So, here's a twin-pack of Lovecraft's tales adapted by my fave Groovy Age writer, Roy Thomas with awe-inspiring art by Barry (Windsor-) Smith...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
On Tuesday we asked readers how they would prepare a fictional pig. The most creative dish would win a pair of tickets to a fantastic Marco Canora pork fest hosted by Epicurious on Saturday night. You did not disappoint us, dear readers! A few of our favorite entries — and the winner! — are below. Honorable Mentions "The way to cook THE THREE LITTLE PIGS would be obvious ... You have...
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Diversions of the Groovy Kind (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Teen Groove loved, loved, LOVED What If? Roy Thomas' brainchild was so cool, yet so simple: combine DC's Infinite Earths with their Imaginary Stories, but do 'em up Marvel style in a double-sized bi-monthly comic (hosted by Uatu, the Watcher, natch!) One of my all-time favorite issues of What If? was ish #15 (April 1979) in which we learned what would have happened if someone other than Richard Ryder...
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Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
Tom Palmer’s thoughts — despite now being five years old — on Cass Sunstein’s call for a new New Deal are still very much worth pondering.
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GUN WATCH (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Missouri: Intruder Shot through door : "Police said an intruder was shot during an attempted break-in at a Northland apartment complex early Monday morning. Officers were called to the Wild Oaks complex at Highway 152 and Flintlock Road shortly before 3 a.m. Police said a man was trying to break into an apartment when the woman inside grabbed her gun and fired at the intruder through the door....
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Diversions of the Groovy Kind (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Y'know, everyone talks about the great art Neal Adams and Tom Palmer produced during their tenure as X-Men artists back in 1969, but no one does anything about it. Well, that's all about to change! Here for your eyeballs' edification are the sizzling splash pages from X-Men #'s 56-63 and 65 (February-September and November 1969)! Get'cher keyboard outta the drool zone, baby,...
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