Charlie Huston's Blog, page 73

Found my old stamp collection. I miss letters.

Found my old stamp collection. I miss letters.

Family Life: A Teleplay In One Scene

INT. HUSTON HOME - EVENING

Charlie Huston and his daughter are watching a cartoon before bedtime. She is eating mint chip ice cream, he is eating sea salt dark chocolate caramels. They are watchingJustice League Unlimited.

Huston’s Wife enters, sits on the couch and begins braiding their daughter’s hair. She watches the cartoon for a moment and nods at the screen.

HUSTON’S WIFE: Is that Iron Man?

Huston looks away from the TV, where the character S.T.R.I.P.E., AKA Patrick “Pat”...

World's Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks - Information Is Beautiful

World's Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks - Information Is Beautiful:

Data visualization of the world biggest data breaches, leaks and hacks. Constantly updated. Powered by VizSweet.

NSA-GCHQ cyberspy leaks: A glossary

NSA-GCHQ cyberspy leaks: A glossary:

Can’t tell the players without a scorecard.

drdavidmrmack:Here is a four page autobiographical...

drdavidmrmack:

Here is a four page autobiographical story that I wrote & drew about the death of my father a couple years ago.

It was published in issue #4 of DREAM LOGIC. Published by Marvel Comics. Icon imprint that we created for our creator-owned books.

Also included here are the initial layouts for the story I did about my father. And learning of his death.

I had the story written out more or less. And I was percolating on how to tell the story visually and lay it out. I was with my f...

Reflections on a writer’s productivity #1 exception:Listening to Bela Lugosi’s Dead...

Reflections on a writer’s productivity #1 exception:

Listening to Bela Lugosi’s Dead while working is conducive to a writer’s productivity for at least the first four minutes of the track.

Reflections on a writer’s productivity #1:Listening to Bauhaus while working is not conducive...

Reflections on a writer’s productivity #1:

Listening to Bauhaus while working is not conducive to a writer’s productivity.

theparisreview:“Some games go sour as soon as you begin. Some,...

theparisreview:

“Some games go sour as soon as you begin. Some, that you don’t enjoy defeating, give you free ball after free ball, and only greed tempered by heady exemption makes you go on playing: I’ll never win this good again. And on you go, afraid to leave it, certainly at night, when no kid comes to hover at your elbow, his face alive with yearning, and you wave him toward you, tell him to play the five free games racked up, as if you’re giving him the plasma of life itself, and go on h...

Lawfare › Catalog of the Snowden Revelations

Lawfare › Catalog of the Snowden Revelations:

In case you’ve lost count…

goodstuffhappenedtoday:Israeli Women Risk Arrest To Take...

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

Israeli Women Risk Arrest To Take Palestinian Women To The Beach

NY TIMES

TEL AVIV — Skittish at first, then wide-eyed with delight, the women and girls entered the sea, smiling, splashing and then joining hands, getting knocked over by the waves, throwing back their heads and ultimately laughing with joy.

The women werePalestiniansfrom the southern part of the West Bank, which is landlocked, andIsraeldoes not allow them in. They risked criminal prosecution, along with the...