The View from the Porch

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking for The View from the Porch, an essay by J. Michael Straczynski from departed site psycomic.com. Even The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine doesn’t have it. The closest I’ve gotten is about.com’s annotated list of articles, which summarizes the article: JMS expresses his views on the importance of the front porch to American society. As a bonus side story he also talks about his childhood love of comic books.

It’s frustrating, because this is the kind of thing I’d normally make a copy of, and moreso because I thought I had when I saw that Psycomic was going away. I’m hoping, in the spirit of yesterday’s post, that someone else may have kept a copy they’d be willing to share.

Thank you for your support.

It’s all out there, just hard to find

Seth Spitzer (Mozilla Mail/News developer extraordinaire) has a new take on the infinite monkeys idea. Unfortunately, there’s a flaw in his example of applying his theory to video: discovering Star Wars Episode 2, Star Wars Episode 3 or better yet Star Wars Episode 7,8,9 isn’t a good thing; discovering good versions of them is.

You’ve gotta like his warped sense of humour, in any case: I know there’s a good joke to be made about carving a pumpkin’s eyes first and mouth last (so it can see what you’re doing, but can’t scream)…. Is anyone else thinking of Harlan Ellison?