Smoking might be taken away from Wolverine soon, but there’s a precedent. Smoking has already been taken away from a comic book legend — John Constantine. Several years ago on a blog far away (that blog is long gone; I abandoned it about six years ago), I wrote a piece about “Constantine” and smoking. “Constantine” … Continue reading John Constantine’s smoking evolution — 1988-2014
Haruko found this for me. On Raw Story, a bunch of creepy old Christian cartoons. (It’s been years since I’ve had one of those creepy mini-comic books jammed into my front door, but I remember them.) Among the comics included, some pretty weird one about how a guy is headed on a path to Hell … Continue reading Cigarettes are somehow anti-Christian?
Arnold Schwarzenegger made a point of it last week to have his photo taken on the campus of Facebook holding a cigar in front of a sign that says, “tobacco free campus,” later proclaiming that he loves to break the rules. Arnold’s Facebook caption: Facebook’s philosophy is Move Fast and Break Things, which I love,’ … Continue reading OK, we get it Arnold Schwarzenegger, you’re some kind of rebel … or something
When I was about 12 or 13, one of my favourite books was “Ender’s Game,” written by Orson Scott Card. It won both the Nebula and the Hugo awards for best science fiction novel the year it came out — 1985. It’s a brutal story about kids drafted into a war against aliens called “The … Continue reading Why I am boycotting “Ender’s Game”
Here’s something you don’t see very often. A town actually remove or relax a smoking ban. Late last month, Casper, Wyo., removed its smoking ban on bars because some bar owners complained to the city that the ban was hurting their business (the ban is still in place in restaurants.). Smokefree advocates are now collecting … Continue reading Smoking ban relaxed in Casper
I initially began in Second Life to see if I might want to start a music club. I found out that would cost upwards of $400 a month for the “land” (bandwidth), and that would mean raising money and then that would mean looking for advertisers and then … it would become a JOB! … Continue reading Imogen and the Pigeons in Second Life
Here’s my view on Lance being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. It was a witch hunt. Absolutely. There were people who have been determined to nail him for 12-13 years. And … he was almost assuredly a doper. What’s the most damning evidence against him? EVERYONE doped 10-12 years ago. EVERYONE. Almost … Continue reading The case against Lance Armstrong
I can’t wait to get my hands on a book coming out in February, written by a Stanford professor about the evils of the tobacco industry, called: “Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition” Ouch, but $44.95? I think I’ll wait to see if I can get a used copy. … Continue reading Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
Hey thanks to Richard at the Patio for tuning me on to this. He brought up Mad Magazine’s tobacco parody ads from the 1960s. I vaguely remember their parody ads (The Magazine at its height was before my time, but I used to get these little paperbacks of their old magazine Mad used to put … Continue reading Old Mad Magazine tobacco ads
Or … the more you know, the angrier you get University of North Carolina sociologist Michael Schwalbe wrote this book, a collection of interviews from cancer patients, smokers, ex-smokers and anti-smoking advocates, after his father, a lifelong smoker, died of lung cancer at the age of 65. This is what he came up with: “Smoke … Continue reading Smoke Damage: Voices from the Front Lines of America’s Tobacco Wars
