Earth Hour: Going Black

by JayZuck on March 28th, 2009
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From 8:30 – 9:30 pm tomorrow night (March 28th),  yours truly will be flipping out the lights.   Crazy stuff I know, but worldwide perhaps more than a billion people will be participating in a symbolic effort to fight global climate change by participating in Earth Hour.

The folks over at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are encouraging twittering, live blogging, and so forth during Earth Hour, but I am going to take things one step further.  I will not be blogging or using the internet and in fact, my computer will be proudly powered down.

There is no one act the will put an end to global climate change, but we can all do out part to build awareness and commit to the process.

As someone once said, “it is always darkest, before the dawn.”  Well, here’s to the dark, and may the dawn be soon follow.

Update: The world has started to go black (even though it is not 8:30 PST for me yet).  Anyway, if you participated in Earth Hour and are just now coming across the page now, drop a comment and let me know what you did.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

by JayZuck on March 17th, 2009
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I was getting ready to go to bed when my brother said, “Hey, you aren’t going to do a Saint Patrick’s Day post.”  I was tired, but I said I would give it one try and see how my quick and dirty skills are holding up.  I was happy with my quick draw skills and the rest is history.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everbody.  Don’t drink and drive.  You know even my Leprachaun has a designated driver and he is a legendary magical creature.

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Recent Indications Comics are Taking over the World

by JayZuck on March 9th, 2009
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1. The New York Times is introducing a graphic book bestseller list. There will even be separate categories for hardcover,  softcover, and manga.

I don’t think I will give up my Wizard magazine just yet and what’s the deal with calling my graphic novel which itself is just a collection of comic books a chimerical graphic book.  Baby steps…

2. The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian has opened an exhibit entitled “Comic Art Indigene.” That’s right comics are indigenous baby!

The origin of sequential art is depicted with rock art, ledger art and ceramics as its evolution toward the modern comic is revealed.

You see comics aren’t just taking over the world in their primal way they have always exerted more influence than they are given credit.

3. With a comic book fan in the White House, the geek-in-chief and hero of hope President Barack Obama helped Spidey release the best selling comic in over a decade.

4. Drawing from another New York Times headline, the financial crisis has a solution rooted in comic superheroes.  Rob Cox and Antony Currie declare,  “Citigroup, Turn on Your Bat-Signal.”

Here comes the Justice League to spare us a continued financial meltdown by being recruited as the first ever superhero board of directors.

5. The Watchmen

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