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A Journal of Zarjaz Things
fueled 24 hours a day by high-octane betelgusian thrillpower
Created on 2005-11-06 17:14:21 (#8728643), last updated 2009-11-19
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Basic Info| Name: | The Hipster Dad |
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| Location: | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Website: | Touched by the Hand of Tharg |
Bio
"One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel."
TO THE PUBLIC
Realizing that the show-going people of this country appreciate their efforts to present the best possible acts obtainable, regardless of expense, the theatre managers have instructed their foreign agents to procure for them the most startling novelties from abroad, and, as a result of their negotiations, KAR-MI, Prince of Mystery, will appear here with the most astonishing entertainment ever placed before the public.
KAR-MI, Grand High Priest of the SJOS-IG-WARI, that fanatical sect of conjurers and spirit workers known as the IDRA-JAD-BANJOLA, or Supreme Masters of Life and Death (on account of their being able to feign death for weeks even months at a time), was first brought to the notice of prominent scientists throughout the world, by having performed this incredible feat during the great Indian Durbar.
I'm the Hipster Dad. The nickname was given to me by a clerk at Wuxtry Records, but she probably calls lots of guys in their thirties who come in with their kids to buy PJ Harvey albums that. I live in the Hipster Pad with two super-spectacular kids and one super-spectacular wife.
After some years of living the suburban single father life, I up and married my longtime friend
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lyneidas in the spring of 2009. (You can read all about it in three parts.) She and I met some fifteen years previously, in our nation's finest city, Athens, G.A., where we can still be found every month or so buyin' comics, eatin' barbecue and preparing for our next roadtrippin' assault on the nation's highways. Meanwhile, the Hipster Kids' mother pandoraskitty lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and comes down to visit us every 6-7 weeks. (Sometimes, as Liz Phair might say, she's a mess to deal with, but mostly we've been living here uninjured.) She has another tyke, the "Hipster Nephew," about whom you'll hear some goo-gooing and "awwww"ing from time to time."Friends" Only: This is a public Livejournal. I use a filter for Movie Night invitations and a filter for pictures of the Hipster Kids. If you've met my kids, I will place you on the latter filter. Please respect the pseudonyms of my children, who are referred to as "the Hipster Son" and "the Hipster Daughter." Thanks.
If you are interested in joining us for the weekly Movie (or Doctor Who) Night, feel free to ask and I will make sure you can see the announcements. All of my readers are invited to join us on Thursday evenings!
Otherwise, I'm not saying anything in Livejournal about anybody that I'm not comfortable with them reading, principally because I don't say anything that I don't believe to be true. I used to make the mistake of using a filter to chuckle about goonheads among some yes men. Never mind the Livejournal maxim that today's confidante is tomorrow's enemy, which is something a lot of people could stand to remember, that was an evil and undefendable thing to do. So I don't do it anymore. I've been blogging since December 2000, and I've made some mistakes and aggravated some dingbats and started some drama and learned some lessons. It has been a very fun ride!
In addition to regular life-stuff kinda-entries, I have some features which appear at Blogspot. These are the comic book reviews, which appear at The Hipster Dad's Bookshelf, and my Thursday discussions of 2000 AD, the Galaxy's Greatest Comic. Another weekly feature, Wimsey Wednesday, in which I discuss the detective fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers, is on hiatus until the autumn. Those links will let you do so without all the boring personal life stuff.
Checking my IP traffic, it appears my most popular feature is Reprint This!, in which I suggest out-of-print comic gems which deserve new editions for a new audience. After a little evolution, how this works is I typically come up with a new suggestion once a month, along with a follow-up feature for one of the previous suggestions which have been picked up, or some other treat from comics' past. Supplementing both articles with links to recent news and interviews has proven pretty popular among "the bookshelf crowd" of comic collectors, so even if you're not a LiveJournaller yourself, you might wish to add it to your own bookmarks, or follow it in Google. The feature is scheduled to be updated on the first and tenth of each month, and appears both here and at its own blogspot.
Readers may further expect periodic and/or tediously frequent mentions of the Georgia Bulldogs, the Georgia Force, the Gwinnett Gladiators, Doctor Who, Double Cola, fire-breathing dimetrodons, my old drinkin' buddy Mikhail Gorbachev, Heino, Mr. Monopoly, the Toledo Mud Hens and Motherfuckin' Ray Milland.
New readers are always welcome, and new friends especially so!
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Schools:
Griffin Middle School - Smyrna, GA (1982 - 1985)Campbell High School - Smyrna, GA (1985 - 1989)
University of Georgia - Athens, GA (1989 - 2000)
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