Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets | Living - cleveland.com
february 2010 by bkerr
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
But since my "rock star" days, the public attention has faded a lot. In Pop Culture Time, the 1990s were eons ago. There are occasional flare-ups of weirdness, but mostly I just go about my quiet life and do my best to ignore the rest. I'm proud of the strip, enormously grateful for its success, and truly flattered that people still read it, but I wrote "Calvin and Hobbes" in my 30s, and I'm many miles from there.
An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else. I think the deeper fans understand that, and are willing to give me some room to go on with my life.
bill-watterson
cartoon
comics
culture
But since my "rock star" days, the public attention has faded a lot. In Pop Culture Time, the 1990s were eons ago. There are occasional flare-ups of weirdness, but mostly I just go about my quiet life and do my best to ignore the rest. I'm proud of the strip, enormously grateful for its success, and truly flattered that people still read it, but I wrote "Calvin and Hobbes" in my 30s, and I'm many miles from there.
An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else. I think the deeper fans understand that, and are willing to give me some room to go on with my life.
february 2010 by bkerr
The Onion | We Must All Do Our Part To Preserve This Climate Of Fear
february 2008 by bkerr
"Fear has always made America strong."
onion
fear
culture
politics
ha-ha
only-serious
february 2008 by bkerr
Welcome to Michigoss
april 2007 by bkerr
"If you’re reading this message it most likely means you’re a close friend of an editor. No matter, michigoss.com has arrived and we urge you to read and to encourage others to read."
annarbor
umich
culture
etc
local
zine
via:vielmetti
via:mahatm
april 2007 by bkerr
Detroit News | Noogler? Zany Google can make you one
march 2007 by bkerr
Friends, countrypersons, it's come to this: "Grady Burnett, head of Google's Ann Arbor operations -- dressed up like a duck."
google
annarbor
work
culture
duck-typing
avian
costumed
employers
sweet-science
more-ridiculous-than-menlo
college-kids-no-last-names
chicka-quack-quack
march 2007 by bkerr
University of Michigan Free Culture
march 2007 by bkerr
"The University of Michigan Free Culture group is a member of FreeCulture.org. Members engage in discussion and action surrounding open access and sharing of creativity and culture."
umich
annarbor
free
open
participatory
culture
little-fluffy-clouds
weblogs
via:vielmetti
march 2007 by bkerr
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler | The Agenda Restated
february 2007 by bkerr
Jim Kunstler agenda for the world of tomorrow
ecology
economics
clustering
fuckup
future
agenda
culture
cities
planning
etc
via:adamgreenfield
february 2007 by bkerr
Home - tiny living
january 2007 by bkerr
"tiny living offers a selection of home furnishings and accessories designed to maximize small spaces."
home
portable
culture
store
via:thedaniel
january 2007 by bkerr
RedBlue
october 2006 by bkerr
"An experiment in cross-spectrum dialogue." Definitely one for Brandon and Ted.
distributed
conversation
consensus
aggregator
politics
culture
october 2006 by bkerr
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
august 2006 by bkerr
The treaty was OK'd, to be adopted in the next UN session; US weirdly abstains.
disability
humans
rights
culture
august 2006 by bkerr
gladwell dot com | big and bad (from the January 12, 2004 New Yorker magazine)
june 2006 by bkerr
"How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety."
detroit
michigan
transportation
economics
brand
culture
commerce
june 2006 by bkerr
WorldChanging | Public Diplomacy in Virtual Worlds
may 2006 by bkerr
Contest to develop a game addressing concept of public diplomacy. "The finalists ranged from virtual cultural exchange programs to strategy games about the Israel and Palestinian conflict or international water rights."
games
culture
politics
may 2006 by bkerr
prematurely grey | Coming Out of the Closet: Part One
april 2006 by bkerr
Long but interesting introduction to "The Compact" -- a community-building, anti-consumer project organized using low-fi net tools.
urban
consumer
culture
cooperation
coordination
april 2006 by bkerr
ZeroOne San Jose & ISEA2006
march 2006 by bkerr
"A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art."
art
architecture
urban
spaces
design
conference
cities
events
electronic
fun
digital
media
culture
via:vielmetti
march 2006 by bkerr
Ars Technica | Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet
january 2006 by bkerr
"Fair use, meet your successor: 'customary historic use.'"
copyright
culture
politics
january 2006 by bkerr
Persuasive Games | Disaffected!
january 2006 by bkerr
"...a videogame parody of the Kinko’s copy store, a source of frustration from its patrons."
games
persuasion
mac
windows
commerce
culture
january 2006 by bkerr
game-brains.com | Facade - review - Jan 2006
january 2006 by bkerr
Excellent rambly review of Facade.
lit
if
text
games
future
media
entertainment
culture
past
january 2006 by bkerr
telawrence.net home page
january 2006 by bkerr
"English copyright on a large number of T. E. Lawrence's published works and letters expired on 1 January 2006."
politics
culture
war
past
lit
january 2006 by bkerr
mengwong - Offered: entertainment center
december 2005 by bkerr
Using Fundable to bankroll a Freecycle donation (!).
web
culture
free
$
freecycle
funny
december 2005 by bkerr
AlterNet: Hurricane Katrina: 'They' Destroyed New Orleans
december 2005 by bkerr
Commendable article by a student from the University of New Orleans about 'them.'
politics
culture
urban
conspiracy
katrina
past
neworleans
future
december 2005 by bkerr
Google Press Center: Zeitgeist
december 2005 by bkerr
2005. Really nice visual design!
google
search
culture
numeracy
past
december 2005 by bkerr
Dingell’s HOLIDAY Jingle for O’Reilly and House GOP (12-14-05)
december 2005 by bkerr
"A merry Christmas to all, and to Bill O'Reilly ... Happy Holidays"
michigan
politics
holiday
culture
funny
via:goodspeedupdate
december 2005 by bkerr
The Degree Confluence Project
december 2005 by bkerr
"The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location."
culture
geek
world
maps
space
december 2005 by bkerr
90% Crud | The Anti-Darknet
november 2005 by bkerr
"The current state of copyright infringement reminds me of prohibition-era drinking: a lot of people doing it but there's no constructive conversation."
internet
politics
copyright
culture
language
jam
november 2005 by bkerr
Linux Journal | Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes
november 2005 by bkerr
I'm still developing a response to this. Rhetoric of "places" is powerful, but it might have nasty side effects. Good read.
internet
politics
web
economics
network
culture
copyright
future
november 2005 by bkerr
[auto mata]
november 2005 by bkerr
"An independent label for extraordinary e-lit, digital art, and computer games."
text
games
culture
november 2005 by bkerr
Guardian Unlimited | Why do we believe in God?
november 2005 by bkerr
"Faith in a higher being is as old as humanity itself. But what sparked the Divine Idea? Did our earliest ancestors gain some evolutionary advantage through their shared religious feelings?"
religion
culture
past
social
engines
via:schollm
november 2005 by bkerr
Reason: Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business
november 2005 by bkerr
"A Reason debate featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T.J. Rodgers."
si575
politics
culture
social
economics
november 2005 by bkerr
Information Aesthetics
november 2005 by bkerr
"Form follows data -- towards creative information visualization."
weblog
design
culture
ui
via:apete
november 2005 by bkerr
Web Two Point Oh! | Create your own Web 2.0 Company
october 2005 by bkerr
Seckoorb, my own Web 2.0 company, provides "geotag-based collaborative document editing via api mashups."
internet
commerce
web
biz
culture
future
parody
october 2005 by bkerr
Writers Block Live
october 2005 by bkerr
Mike Evangelist is blogging / writing a book about his experiences in marketing at the Mothership (he worked on some of their multimedia apps).
apple
tech
culture
past
october 2005 by bkerr
Never Learn to Type | Class
october 2005 by bkerr
Why don't people ask questions in class?
edu
culture
october 2005 by bkerr
PledgeBank | Search for "Ann Arbor"
october 2005 by bkerr
Find new pledges mentioning our fair Ann Arbor. Is it time for a followup to the first SI pledge?
annarbor
web
activism
culture
future
october 2005 by bkerr
Arbor Update | Fight Fascist Trolls: fundraising for Toledo
october 2005 by bkerr
They're getting pledges of $1 per troll comment, donations to Lagrange Development Corporation.
annarbor
weblogs
arborblogs
politics
culture
$
october 2005 by bkerr
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