My family has enjoyed ribbing me about this one.

Some crazy blonde chick named Colleen tried to arrange the murder of a cartoonist. This is so not about me no matter how much my loony family guffaws it all to the rafters.

Interesting and creepy fallout from the Unholy Danish Cartoon Controversy that will not die.

Colleen LaRose, AKA Jihad Jane was an internet nutter whose increasingly bizarre behavior caught the eye of independent internet watchdogs who, according to The Jawa Report, turned the crazy Colleen over to the feds.

Bit by bit I learned more about Colleen through her comments or by all the information she recklessly left about herself on the web. I came to know her as a middle aged sociopath woman desperate for love, lonely and isolated, with a deep hatred for the U.S. blaming them for all her problems. She claimed her conversion to Islam was related to meeting a Muslim while on vacation in Holland who somehow made her feel special which became her quest to find a much younger wealthy Muslim husband as evident by her other website accounts with photos of possible husbands including one with stashes of cash piled around his body.

Cripes.

Over at Gloss, Molly Crabapple gets axed by Barnes and Noble for producing porn. Which is in the eye of the beholder. And in the eye of the beholders at Barnes and Noble, Alan Moore/Melinda Gebbi’s Lost Girls was not porn. Go figure.

When I tweeted about B&N banning Scarlett, my fans were outraged. My audience, like me, has a rebellious streak, and doesn’t like to be told what they can’t read. I love the amazing supporters who spread the word on Twitter and wrote to Barnes and Noble demanding to know why my book was nixed.

Molly Crabapple is not only extremely talented, but she is very pretty. Visit her website.

At The Evolutionary Review, The Origins of Comics: New York Double Take, by Brian Boyd, Professor of English at Auckland University.

Storytelling delivers multiple bene?ts, in terms not only of training in social cognition, but also of communicating shared values and opening up imaginative space. But the very fact that storytelling offers solutions creates new problems: how can its bene?ts be augmented or its costs reduced? One cost of storytelling is time. Language allows only the serial transmission of information along a single channel.Though it can compress events in time, it still takes time to tell them. But though they take time, orally transmitted narratives, the only option for most of the history of story, do not last. Writing and print solve problems of dissemination in time and space. But language, especially in written form, suffers from a lack of the sensory immediacy our minds have mostly evolved for. A visual form of narrative would solve this by telling stories in non-serial, sensorily rich, and durable forms.

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