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Post by Pharozonk on Feb 22, 2016 11:12:00 GMT -5
Just chugging along. I've been busy looking for internships for the summer recently, and after several weeks, I finally scored one! Here's hoping they pay you, which was not the case when I interned at the U. of Arizona Press back in the summer of '83. Not that I felt exploited or anything, & I did pick up some solid experience (who else among us can say he edited a large chunk of this?), but at the very least I'd have appreciated being given my choice of one of their books to take home, which would've been this. Instead, I wound up paying probably $40 for it via ABEbooks about 15 years later. I won't be getting paid initially, but after referring a certain threshold of new clients, I get paid a decent amount at least.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2016 11:21:21 GMT -5
Just chugging along. I've been busy looking for internships for the summer recently, and after several weeks, I finally scored one! Here's hoping they pay you, which was not the case when I interned at the U. of Arizona Press back in the summer of '83. Not that I felt exploited or anything, & I did pick up some solid experience (who else among us can say he edited a large chunk of this?), but at the very least I'd have appreciated being given my choice of one of their books to take home, which would've been this. Instead, I wound up paying probably $40 for it via ABEbooks about 15 years later. I never miss anything by Nancy Hamblin.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 11:41:26 GMT -5
I don't know anyone paying any attention to this ... but we reached 400 Members today with the addition of comixplay!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 22, 2016 12:55:38 GMT -5
And you thanked every one of them a dozen times
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 13:57:00 GMT -5
Went to see a movie -- The Witch -- yesterday for the first time in nearly 5 years, since I'd have caught Insidious in mid-2011. I was pleasantly astonished at how low mantinee prices have gotten around here, or at least at the cinema in question: $4.39. That's 11 cents less than our long-defunct second-run theater used to charge, though that ticket did include a very small coke & bag of popcorn (neither of which I could indulge in anyway). It's also precisely what a $3.99 comic would cost at the shop next to the theater, given the 10 percent sales tax in force here.
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Post by Pharozonk on Feb 22, 2016 15:56:48 GMT -5
Went to see a movie -- The Witch -- yesterday for the first time in nearly 5 years, since I'd have caught Insidious in mid-2011. I was pleasantly astonished at how low mantinee prices have gotten around here, or at least at the cinema in question: $4.39. That's 11 cents less than our long-defunct second-run theater used to charge, though that ticket did include a very small coke & bag of popcorn (neither of which I could indulge in anyway). It's also precisely what a $3.99 comic would cost at the shop next to the theater, given the 10 percent sales tax in force here. There's a theater about 10 minutes north of campus that runs movies for $6.00 throughout the day. It's a nice break from the overpriced multiplexes that have taken over America
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 22, 2016 16:01:07 GMT -5
Went to see a movie -- The Witch -- yesterday for the first time in nearly 5 years, since I'd have caught Insidious in mid-2011. I was pleasantly astonished at how low mantinee prices have gotten around here, or at least at the cinema in question: $4.39. That's 11 cents less than our long-defunct second-run theater used to charge, though that ticket did include a very small coke & bag of popcorn (neither of which I could indulge in anyway). It's also precisely what a $3.99 comic would cost at the shop next to the theater, given the 10 percent sales tax in force here. And you would think that New York, one of the heaviest taxed states in the union, would place a tax on comics. But they don't. There is no tax on regularly published materials. Books-yes, magazines and newspapers-no
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 16:03:56 GMT -5
Went to see a movie -- The Witch -- yesterday for the first time in nearly 5 years, since I'd have caught Insidious in mid-2011. I was pleasantly astonished at how low mantinee prices have gotten around here, or at least at the cinema in question: $4.39. That's 11 cents less than our long-defunct second-run theater used to charge, though that ticket did include a very small coke & bag of popcorn (neither of which I could indulge in anyway). It's also precisely what a $3.99 comic would cost at the shop next to the theater, given the 10 percent sales tax in force here. There's a theater about 10 minutes north of campus that runs movies for $6.00 throughout the day. It's a nice break from the overpriced multiplexes that have taken over America Unless things have radically changed, theatres only get 5 cents on the dollar of your movie ticket price. As movie budgets escalate, ticket prices rise to fund them. Theatres still only get 5% of the box office. It's why concession prices are usually so high for theatres, as that is their main source of revenue. The percentages may have changed since I was working in a theatre, but I doubt it changed much. High movie ticket prices suck, but it's the studios behind it moreso than the theatres. Theatres will lower prices to get more people in to buy concessions, where they make their money. When Dan B talked about including popcorn and soda in ticket price, it's a way for theatre to up the amount they get for each person entering the theatre (ensuring a concession sale that goes to them not the studio). -M
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 16:07:06 GMT -5
There's a theater about 10 minutes north of campus that runs movies for $6.00 throughout the day. It's a nice break from the overpriced multiplexes that have taken over America Unless things have radically changed, theatres only get 5 cents on the dollar of your movie ticket price. As movie budgets escalate, ticket prices rise to fund them. Theatres still only get 5% of the box office. It's why concession prices are usually so high for theatres, as that is their main source of revenue. The percentages may have changed since I was working in a theatre, but I doubt it changed much. High movie ticket prices suck, but it's the studios behind it moreso than the theatres. Theatres will lower prices to get more people in to buy concessions, where they make their money. When Dan B talked about including popcorn and soda in ticket price, it's a way for theatre to up the amount they get for each person entering the theatre (ensuring a concession sale that goes to them not the studio). -M I did not know this. I mean, I never thought about it or looked into it. Huh. Learn something new everyday!
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 22, 2016 23:13:29 GMT -5
I didn't find as much as my kids did at the book fair but I got a few things. A Contract With God. This will be my first Will Eisner read. I've admired plenty of his work but not read any. Grabbed two William Faulkner books; Intruder in the Dust & The Unvanquished, because I like old pulp novels and novels from that era and I know Faulkner is well thought of. Even mentioned by Bukowski a few times. The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. I had this movie suggested to me from watching Watership Down. But since it's availability on Netflix is still unknown I thought I'd read the book first. Anxious to hear what you think of A Contract With God. I read that in high school and really fell in love with Eisner's non-Spirit work so hard with that early graphic novel.
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Post by Mormel on Feb 23, 2016 1:40:04 GMT -5
Brazil is planning to combat the zika virus by bombarding mosquitoes with gamma rays. Months from now, a mysterious masked vigilante will go buzzing above the night streets of Rio or São Paolo.
In all seriousness, zika is a very dangerous disease, quickly spreading and so far proven difficult to put a halt to; the plan is to sterilize male mosquitoes with the rays and then release them into the wild to have them mate with females so as to reduce chances of them producing offspring. It sounds like a bit of a long shot, but let's see how it plays out.
Anyway, males can't use their proboscis to penetrate skin, so chances of getting bitten by an irradiated one are slim, to begin with! So, no mosquito powers!
Mosquito-Man! Mosquito-Man! Does whatever a mosquito can! Does he bite? Hell no, cat! You'll need Mosquito-Woman for that! Watch out! Here comes Mosquito-Man...
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Post by Mormel on Feb 23, 2016 2:59:38 GMT -5
Yesterday, a local radio station was reporting from a sausage bread contest for the best sausage bread of the province IIRC, and now I have a hankering for Brabant sausage breads.
Apparently the contest judges panel has to taste up to 40-something different sausage breads... so next year, I need to be a judge.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 23, 2016 7:34:59 GMT -5
I didn't find as much as my kids did at the book fair but I got a few things. A Contract With God. This will be my first Will Eisner read. I've admired plenty of his work but not read any. Grabbed two William Faulkner books; Intruder in the Dust & The Unvanquished, because I like old pulp novels and novels from that era and I know Faulkner is well thought of. Even mentioned by Bukowski a few times. The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. I had this movie suggested to me from watching Watership Down. But since it's availability on Netflix is still unknown I thought I'd read the book first. Anxious to hear what you think of A Contract With God. I read that in high school and really fell in love with Eisner's non-Spirit work so hard with that early graphic novel. This would be great reading for Read A Graphic Novel Week. I re-read it EVERY year for that event. A true classic, and arguably the father of all modern day GNs.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 10:02:31 GMT -5
I find this to be most interesting:
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Post by Mormel on Feb 23, 2016 15:02:35 GMT -5
There is a beautiful full moon out tonight, and the sky is totally clear. It must look even more gorgeous out in the fields, away from all these buildings.
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