Below are the most recent 8 friends' journal entries.

Sunday, July 6th, 2008
urbaniak	7:31p	Bumptroversy! Text of a "bump" currently running on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim: The Adult Swim message boards respond: ( Goofy lists are no joke ) (62 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
urbaniak	8:33p	American Conservatism, 2008 In August 2001, conservative radio host Michael Graham wrote a piece on National Review Online lauding Jesse Helms as a paragon of right-wing tenaciousness. Graham also allowed that one salient aspect of Helms's career was less than admirable: Long before Rush Limbaugh, Helms was on the airwaves dismissing the University of North Carolina (UNC) as the "University of Negroes and Communists." This is one of the disturbing legacies of Jesse Helms. Though you won't see it mentioned in the media coverage of his retirement, Helms was in fact an avowed and unapologetic segregationist. As a campaign worker, he helped elect segregation candidates before his own run in 1972. Unlike neoconservatives who espouse state's rights on principle, despite any unwanted outcomes on racial issues, Helms backed state's rights specifically because he wanted states to have the right to segregate. If Helms's position on 1960's civil-rights legislation has changed since then, he hasn't mentioned it. When Helms died yesterday, conservative radio host Mark R. Levin posted this on National Review Online: Death of a Conservative Great   [Mark R. Levin] I wish the Helms family peace, and I thank Jesse Helms for helping to ensure the election of Ronald Reagan, being a warrior against the Soviet Union and for the release of Soviet Jews and other abused minorities, and being a voice for millions of unborn babies.  I have noticed some of the smears lobbed at William Buckley in other places since his death; Jesse Helms is in for even more of it.  Other prominent conservatives will face the same.  Unfortunately, such is the nature of these things now. In 2001, a conservative broadcaster writing an appreciation of Helms found it necessary to at least touch on his racist history. In 2008, a conservative broadcaster writing an appreciation of Helms on the same website implies that references to that history are slanderous lies. ("Lobbed" from "other places.") Unfortunately, such is the nature of these things now. (Levin would presumably also have you believe that William F. Buckley's magazine never advocated white rule in the South. Smears!) (59 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
urbaniak	10:14p	Stuff Hey, this is enjoyable. Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer doing a video commentary on the latest Venture Brothers episode. Just click on the little things. You'll figure it out. Hey, you know what else is enjoyable? toddalcott's posts on the show. I would've been at the San Diego Comic-Con Venture Brothers panel later this month but I'll be shooting a movie in New Jersey. Ah well. (35 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
khyungbird	4:50p	Smoke I went up to my parents' house on Friday for my manga presentations in Sonoma County (which went well, by the way, in case you were interested in going to 'em). I had dinner on Friday night with some of my Sonoma County friends, then immediately in the morning I was racing around frantically driving all over the county to different libraries. While I was up there I got my first real look at the smoke from the forest fires which is drifting all over Northern California. I was out walking on the Healdsburg roads and I saw that grey clouds concealed the mountains normally visible on the other side of the Russian River. Although it was daytime, there was a faint shadow over everything. If it weren't for the asphalt and the telephone poles, I could almost have imagined I had traveled back in time to some Medieval apocalypse. Just dusty farmhouses, vineyards, and knotted trees all around. Now I'm back in the city (in time for the end of the Gay Pride parade!), although not for long -- I'm leaving for Anime Expo on Wednesday morning. Which I think brings me to the actual point of this post: I'm going to be on a newly announced Otaku USA panel on Sunday, July 6 from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM in Room LP4. See you there, I hope. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
urbaniak	3:23p	Miracles of the Venture From Birmingham Weekly's J'Mel Davidson's review of "The Happening": I walked backwards from the theatre spewing non-intelligible strings of expletives, and seriously considered killing myself, but I didn’t want to miss The Venture Brothers. There are countless similar stories. I'm telling you, there's a documentary in this. New episode--"The Buddy System"--online now and broadcast tonight at 11:30 on Cartoon Network. The Venture Brothers. It might just save your life. (35 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
urbaniak	4:05p	Hollywood Update I got another TV gig, this time on a couple of episodes of the upcoming USA Network series "The Starter Wife" wherein I share scenes with (ahem) Ms. Judy Davis. Can your TV take that much thespianic intensity? Find out this fall. In other news, I recommend Louis CK's tribute to the late George Carlin. Rest in peace. (Image via Nikki Finke) (33 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
khyungbird	9:36a	Summer Well, it's summer, and I'm busier than I have been since last September. Victor and I are working hard and sweating caffeine-infused buckets of tears on Mystery Project Y (so called because it has Y-chromosomes). Lanny and I are driving down to Anime Expo to lay some of the groundwork for as-yet-vague-and-ethereal Mystery Project X. Here is my rough schedule for the next month: June 27-28 -- Library appearances in Sonoma County July 2-7 -- Anime Expo (with industry-only "Manga: Ultimate Publisher Showdown" panel on Thursday) July 9-12 -- Library appearances in Sonoma County July 15-22 -- Erin & Co. visiting from out of town, yea! July 22-28 -- San Diego Comic-Con (with "The Secret History of Manga" and "Lost in Translation" panels on Thursday, guest-starring Bill Flanagan and Mari Morimoto) Am I going to have to wait until August to focus on the good things in life, like say, playing Dungeons & Dragons? Even *that* is work-related, really. Also, Felipe Smith's "Peepochoo" is AWESOME! Now I have to go mop up 20 ounces of coffee with a pile of my own sketches. (20 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
khyungbird	9:45a	Neotenebra I rarely post any art, but here is something from an idea for a series I have, titled "Neotenebra."( Read more... ) (9 Comments |Comment on this)