On Hiatus for NCUR!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I will be in Utah for the rest of the week and therefore will be taking this week off from posting. I'm presenting a paper at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. The paper is on the application of prosody (the measurement of meter and pattern in poetry) to comics, and how they build and break rhythmic sensations for effect. I don't think I'll be doing a full scale article about it anytime soon (I'm hoping to revise the paper and get it published) but we'll see. In the intervening time, I'll try to reply to some of your comments like I've been meaning to for the past several weeks.

For your amusement while I'm gone, here's a fairly strong list of Things You Ought To Be Reading. I would even consider some of them--Extra Credits and FILM CRIT HULK in particular--to be required reading on the same level as Foucault, Saussure, or McCloud. Have at thee:

FILM CRIT HULK: http://badassdigest.com/author/67
Extra Credits: http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits
Son of Danse Macabre: http://sonofdansemacabre.blogspot.com/
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality
Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com/

This should tide you over in my regrettable absence. Enjoy the use of your chair while you can.

Trust me, it won't last.