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Andy Bartlett on June 15th, 2012

Cobra #14 IDW Publishing Street Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Cover price: $3.99 Cover A: Antonio Fuso, with colors by Arianna Florien Cover B: Joe Eisma and Juan Castro, with colors by Simon Gough Cover RI: Joe Eisma and Juan Castro Written by: Mike Costa Art: Antonio Fuso & Werther Dell’edera Colors: Arianna Florian Letters: [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 30th, 2012

What I’m Reading I’m a bit behind on my comic book reading; and, in actuality, I’ve cut back significantly on the number of books I’m buying every month. I’m down to less than a dozen books a month now, which I’m OK with even though I’d really prefer to be closer to eight. I’m buying [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 29th, 2012

Cobra #13 IDW Publishing Street Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Cover price: $3.99 Cover A: Antonio Fuso, with colors by Arianna Florien Cover B: Antonio Fuso, with colors by Arianna Florien Cover RI: David Williams, with colors by Joana Lafuente Cover RI: David Williams Written by: Mike Costa Art: Antonio Fuso Colors: Arianna Florian Letters: [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 23rd, 2012

Where I’m Visiting I write to you from the Cedar Valley Resort in Whalan, Minn., a short seven-hour drive south of my usual digs in Bemidji. I’m here for three days of conferencing goodness as part of the Minnesota Two-Year College Marketing Association; this is really my public debut as the associate director of communications [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 9th, 2012

What I’m Buying I actually got this on Monday; I signed up for a three-month trial to Birchbox. This was a total impulse buy; it just seemed silly and fun to get a little box full of unknown loots in the mail every month. The first box came with a pair of really nice green [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 7th, 2012

This morning on Twitter, I linked up a very interesting pair of stories from our local media outlets covering Friday’s commencement ceremony at Bemidji State. The first was from our local television station; it featured basically no males, other than having some walk through group shots. Both of the interviewed students were female, and the [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 6th, 2012

I’m going to throw a quick post in at the end of what has been a pretty crazily busy weekend here. What I’m Watching Avengers – twice.  It had been my goal to get two Avengers showings in this weekend for about a week; Helen had been wanting to go see it for months, and after talking with [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 4th, 2012

This is a bit old news at this point, but from April 22-28, Target, Disney and Julie Andrews teamed up to celebrate “National Princess Week. Here’s an LA Times story on it; basically, it was an opportunity for Disney to shill princess merchandise at Target, including the two “Princess Diaries” movies on BluRay — which [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 3rd, 2012

Who I’m Meeting U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) was on campus today; I got a chance to meet him briefly. I figured everybody else would ask him serious stuff, so the only question I asked him? “Was the Three Stooges movie good?” (I had heard him mention to his media guy that he’d seen it). [...]

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Andy Bartlett on May 2nd, 2012

What I’ve Been Writing It really just occurred to me yesterday that this could be considered writing… All week, Helen and I have been playing a game before bed — she gives me three random words, and I ad lib a bedtime story featuring those three words. So far, we’ve had tales including Justin Bieber being [...]

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