half fiction, half documentary.
i'm right on.
no, i don't know.
twitter.com/candicetobin:
…So it is with faint disappointment that I have learned that Pizza Island, the happened-to-be-all-female studio in Brooklyn, which consists of Kate Beaton, Domitille Collardey, Sarah Glidden, Meredith Gran, Lisa Hanawalt, Julia Wertz, and Deana Sobel, will be disbanding at the end of the month after two years.
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All the artists remain friends and are continuing with their work, though Beaton is indeed returning home to Canada, and Glidden will be Artist-in-Residence at Angoulême, France for the next 7 months (go see her photo journal of a day walking around the town!) I wish them all the best and look forward to everything this lot of talented ladies will unleash upon the comics world!
Aw, it’s true, Pizza Island is over, although it didn’t really sink in until I was cleaning up my desk today.
Read our scandalous reasons for disbanding here. I also like Julia’s post about it.
It’s been really nice reading all the sweet comments about our studio and seeing how psyched people were about it. This might be the funniest comment we received:
Oh, a dude, don’t be sad! We probably were.
This is a sad day. Super talented ladies, I wish you all the best. May Pizza Island live forever in our hearts!
Only two American industries have ever had the clout in Washington to force Congress to ban Wall Street from trading futures on their products. The first is onions—futures trading in no one’s favorite root vegetable was banned in the 1950s after farmers protested that Chicago speculators were manipulating prices. The other ban is more recent: In 2010, at the urging of the Motion Picture Association of America, one of Capitol Hill’s most powerful lobbies, Congress banned movie futures as part of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill.
The big studios took on Wall Street—which isn’t known for losing lobbying fights—and won. So this month, when all the big entertainment companies joined forces with Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the US Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s foremost big business lobby, to fight for sweeping anti-piracy legislation, it was almost a foregone conclusion that they would get what they wanted.
Instead, Big Hollywood lost. Here’s how it happened.
"Big Hollywood’s Big Copyright Defeat (via nickbaumann)
“No one’s favorite root vegetable”????
Onion-bashing aside, this is your morning must-read: How Reddit, Wikipedia, and Boing Boing—and you—brought the entertainment lobby to its knees.
(via motherjones)
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“The Occupy movement is beginning to respond to the crisis in democracy. You are already succeeding. … The days of apathy are over, folks. Once this has begun, this cannot be stopped and will not be stopped.”
— Former Labor Secretary and fellow Tumblrer ROBERT REICH, to a group of students partaking in OccupyCal at UC Berkeley, on Nov. 15.
(Photo: Max Whittaker / Getty Images via MSNBC.com; caption via MSNBC)
The Occupy Wall Street commercial that you might soon see on air.
Reblog this, folks. Show it to anyone who still says they don’t know what the Occupy movement is about.
(via The Atlantic)
The following is not mathematically rigorous, since the events of yesterday evening were contingent upon one another in various ways. But just for fun, let’s put all of them together in sequence:
— The Red Sox had just a 0.3 percent chance of failing to make the playoffs on Sept. 3.
— The Rays had just a 0.3 percent chance of coming back after trailing 7-0 with two innings to play.
— The Red Sox had only about a 2 percent chance of losing their game against Baltimore, when the Orioles were down to their last strike.
— The Rays had about a 2 percent chance of winning in the bottom of the 9th, with Johnson also down to his last strike.
Multiply those four probabilities together, and you get a combined probability of about one chance in 278 million of all these events coming together in quite this way.
When confronted with numbers like these, you have to start to ask a few questions, statistical and existential.
"NATE SILVER, The New York Times, “Bill Buckner Strikes Again” (via inothernews)
this is why i love baseball.
FARTS around the world?? yes please!
Lisa Hanawalt Tumblr Giveaway
I’m giving away a big grab bag of comics, doo-dads, and books I did illustrations for. Some of these things aren’t available in stores yet! Some of these things will blow your mind!
WHATCHOO GET?
- The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex
- Masterpiece Studio Paint-by-Number Kit
- Farts Around the World: A Spotter’s Guide
- The first two issues of my comic book series, I Want You.
- A Poketo mousepad
- A creepy horsey letterpress print
- AND MORE.
RULES!
- You must be following my Tumblr, lisahanawalt.com
- No likes, only reblogs
- Please reblog just once per person
- I’ll pick the winner using a randomizer, wee!
I’ll announce the winner on Friday, September 23. Hot dog, reblog!
Nassau County is a place where political identity takes on a big role. Everything here is about party lines. Even our judges are elected, not appointed and they run on party ballots. You are a Republican. You are a Democrat. Independents are almost shunned. You want a job with the town or county? Better check and see who is in office. Your chances are much better if you’re in line with the current administration.
And so it goes with the Coliseum and the Islanders. Back when this idea for building a new Coliseum and building up the surrounding area was a grand vision supported by a Democrat county supervisor, Republicans went out of their way to tear it down and opposed it so hard and so long it fell apart. Then Suozzi left office and Republican Ed Mangano took over and a new idea for the Coliseum and the land around it was born. And the Democrats denounced it.
People - at least those people who weren’t voting with hockey in their hearts - voted along party lines yesterday. You could it hear it in the way they were talking. You could hear the talking points, the same tired messages, the opinions thrown out as facts, especially the older voters. When you live around politics this long, you get used to knowing what party-speak sounds like.
Nobody wants to hear about the future. Nobody wants to hear about what that area of Uniondale and East Meadow and Garden City will look like in four years when the Islanders leave and the Coliseum closes up. “But the Coliseum doesn’t have to close,” they say. Really? You’re going to maintain a place like that without an anchor tenant? “Oh, we’ll get someone else to come in.” Really? Who is going to play there? Who is going invest themselves in a place that is crumbling, a place that looks abandoned even when there are thousands of cars in the parking lot. The Coliseum has already lost the car show, the home show and the annual two week fair. It’s dying and these people won’t even recognize that the only way to keep it from dying has just slipped out of their hands.
They talk about property taxes. But the taxes and revenue lost when the arena is gone is going to have to be made up somehow. So four years from now when there’s an empty lot standing on Hempstead Turnpike their taxes will go up anyhow and what will they have to show for it? Nothing. An empty space. A deteriorating neighborhood. The loss of sports, music, entertainment. And what of the attractions around the area? The Children’s Museum? The Cradle of Aviation and the Firefigher’s Museum? When the vast, empty space where the Coliseum used to stand turns into an eyesore, when the businesses in the area shutter their windows and move on, when the people start moving out of the area as suburban blight encroaches their neighborhood, what becomes of what’s left of the hub? Will they go, too? Does this vote mean the end of the entire area and not just the Coliseum?
People don’t think about these things when they go to the polls. At least they didn’t last night. All they knew was what was told them by the Association for a Better Long Island (hah, there’s an ironic name if I ever heard one), by Jay Jacobs, by Kate Murray, by their party leaders. They didn’t research. They didn’t look toward the future. There was one guy on the local news channel yesterday who said “The Coliseum already employs 2,000 people. Another 1,000 jobs won’t make a difference. I’m voting no.” And that about sums up the idiocy. Creating 1,000 jobs just isn’t good enough for him, so now he’ll make the vote that will help 2,000 people lose their jobs.
I am so angry at my fellow county residents right now. I am sad. Actually, I am heartbroken. And I don’t want to hear about Plan Bs. I don’t want to hear about viable alternatives or getting back to the drawing board or square one or whatever rah-rah let’s gather the troops again words they want to use. I don’t want to hear about attracting other team because if those plans don’t include rebuilding the Coliseum no team in their right mind will want to play here. It was there. It was in our grasp. Anything else after this is going to be a fraction of what we had presented to us. Most plans being talked about now don’t even include the Islanders, just plans for the lands. Oh, yea. We need another strip mall. We need another ten story office building. Bullshit. We don’t need those things. We need an identity. We need something to be proud of. We need a destination point in the county.
The chance for those things is gone.
And so is my desire to be a part of this place I call home anymore.
Sadly, Michele is right. People did vote party lines…and thats silly as all hell.
The thing that killed it though was the Seniors who went out in droves and voted against it because they dont care about the future generations and dont understand that now they are going to be taxed for lost revenue because the Coliseum is shutting down in 2015. The people that voted NO didnt like the public funds (something that 90% of stadiums use) and think that by voting it down Charles Wang will now pay for it himself…which is not happening.
Charles Wang said privately last night that the Islanders are leaving. That’s it. It’s over. Quebec called and made an offer to them yesterday. That might happen. Suffolk also called and made an offer. That also might happen.
A lot of people say we should sell Wang the land…he doesnt want it. He never asked to buy it. In fact, no one has asked to buy it. No one wants it.
On top of this, there was so many voting irregularities yesterday. Im getting non-stop calls today about people who were turned away from the polls and werent allowed to vote because they were wearing Islanders gear. I should point out, that’s horribly illegal. Also, many people got caught on the train and didnt get home from work in time to vote. I got two reports that poll workers in Plainview were outright telling people to vote NO. Ive been getting these calls all morning. This upsets me Nassau.
Here’s whats happening now. In less than half an hour, County Executive Mangano is going to have a press conference asking for private investors to submit RFPs for the Coliseum land. To quote the talking points:
Proposals must address job creation quality of life and revenue.
Although all proposals will be considered, I am seeking development that complements existing recreational, sporting and commercial assets at Eisenhower Park, Mitchel Park and Museum Row.
This does not mean a Coliseum. It means anything that follows those criteria. The Coliseum is done. It will close in 2015. The Islanders are gone. Maybe the minor league ballpark, indoor track and convention center aspects can live on…we’ll see on that. But right now, we’re looking to not lose revenue and possibly find a way to keep the concerts and circus and crap in Nassau. We’ve lost the Islanders. That’s over.
Thanks Nassau voters. Thank you very fucking much.oh, something else: there were people who crossed party lines and voted with the Republicans on this. In the government itself, this project was supported by Democratic Legislator Dave Dennenberg and privately supported by Democratic Legislators Kevan Abrahams and Joe Scannell. It should also be pointed out that Abrahams, who is in line to be minority leader after Diane Yatauros retirement, was threatened by democratic chairman Jay Jacobs that if he publicly supported this plan, he could kiss goodbye his chairmanship. Politics!
as an Islanders fan (yeah, I know) and a Hofstra alum, I am deeply saddened/pissed about this.
