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Russ Burlingame

Being a bastard works.

About Me

I'm a writer, editor and graphic novelist. I'm into leftist politics, Bruce Springsteen and independent cinema.I'm a columnist over at www.comicrelated.com, where I do their Conscientious Sequentials column every two weeks about socially- and politically-relevant comics and graphic novels. I also do their weekly Hot Shot of the Week, which is basically just "What's the best single-issue comic out this week?" and "The Gold Exchange," which is a roundtable between myself and the creators of the stellar DC superhero book "Booster Gold."I'm good at obsessing on a small thing until I am the master of it, and then seeming intelligent by bringing up the handful of things I know in any context.Want to know more, ask me on the AOL-sponsored Instant-Messaging machine, where my name is Russ Burlingame.

My Interests

Music, movies, reading, comic books. I especially like mystery, serious drama and anything with good dialogue.

I'd like to meet:

Bruce Springsteen. It seems like such a crap answer, but anyone who knows me, knows that this is the only honest way to answer this question directly. I'd also like to reconnect with people from my badly misspent youth.

Music:

Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, They Might Be Giants, Badly Drawn Boy, Jesse Malin, Elliott Smith, The Cure, Joe Strummer, Johnny Cash, Green Day, The Rolling Stones, White Stripes, Warren Zevon, Joe Ely, Alanis Morrissette, Radiohead, Wilco, Belle and Sebastian, The Pixies, Neil Young, The Wallflowers, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Jim's Big Ego, The Metasciences

Movies:

Zero Effect, Cradle Will Rock, 21 Grams, Bulworth, The Graduate, What's Up Doc?, Fight Club, Man Bites Dog, Scorcese, Kevin Smith, High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank, John Cusack, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Cameron Crowe, V for Vendetta, Ghost World, American Splendor, Frank Miller's Sin City, Mumford, The Big Chill, Return of the Secaucus Seven, Lone Star, Superman: The Movie, Batman Begins, The Paper

Television:

The Office, My Name is Earl, Mystery Science Theather 3000, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Arrested Development, The West Wing, Cheers, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, ROBOT CHICKEN (I know one of the co-creators from back in the Wizard days), Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sports Night, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, Samantha Who?, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy. I like Lost, even in spite of Jeph Fucking Loeb.

Books:

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams; GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck; FLETCH by Gregory McDonald; Nick Hornby; Chuck Palahniuk; Gore Vidal; THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF CAVALIER AND KLAY by Michael Chabon; A PEOPLE's HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Howard Zinn; Hunter S. Thompson; TRANSMETROPOLITAN by Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson; KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid & Alex Ross; WATCHMEN by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons; Currently, the comic book MANHUNTER by Marc Andreyko is on its way back from cancellation, so check that out. It is NO LONGER the best superhero comic on the shelves, but that's only because BOOSTER GOLD is brilliant, not because MANHUNTER has necessarily lost any of its lustre.

Heroes:

Dan Jurgens

My Blog

Remember this? From back when I gave a crap?

A little advice for the American Left in the wake of George W. Bush's second Republican National Convention and the bump it will undoubtedly give him in the polls:It's time to stop.It's time to stop g...
Posted by Russ! on Tue, 01 May 2007 09:29:00 PST

"Purge the unrighteous"

Acting on the wise advice of Stocky (quoted above), I've removed about 40 people from my friends list.  If you were on it yesterday and are not today, then I'm sorry.  It doesn't mean I don'...
Posted by Russ! on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:43:00 PST

Stupid fun.

           You are a              Social Liberal          (...
Posted by Russ! on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:14:00 PST

New Top 12

Since my Facebook account is where I generally keep in touch with people, and MySpace is more or less another site that I use to kill time and look up entertaining crap, I figured that I'd try somethi...
Posted by Russ! on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:55:00 PST

bored

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The SurveyName:RussBirthday:March 21Birthplace:SyracuseCurrent Location:OswegoEye Color:BlueHair Color:Brownish blondish...stuff.Height:5'10"Right Handed or Left Handed:Righty...
Posted by Russ! on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:50:00 PST

Leanne & Zach's survey

1. Hi my name is... Russ! 2. Never in my life have I... smoked 3. The one person who can drive me nuts... One?  Wow, that's restrictive. 4. High School... happened. 5. When I'm nervous I....
Posted by Russ! on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:03:00 PST

Captain Internet & Bionic Boy in: Y2K!

Here's eight pages of great-looking art from Edison, which I sadly never got to do anything with.  I still have the script kicking around someplace on a CD, and will letter it as soon as I get ar...
Posted by Russ! on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:14:00 PST

Poll Steve posted

1. Which bands/artist do you own the most albums by?Springsteen2. What was the last song you listened to?"The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo" by Phil Ochs3. What's in your CD playe...
Posted by Russ! on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:29:00 PST

Here, bloggy bloggy...

Blah.This weekend was alright, actually.  I had a really great time with Jenn.  We got some Christmas shopping done (most of her family is out of the way now, and she and I have started on e...
Posted by Russ! on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:19:00 PST

Go out and vote for something

I'm voting for Howie today. This is not the first time I've done so, and it likely won't be the last; Howie is one of the Green Party's perpetual candidates. But he's better than the alternatives, eve...
Posted by Russ! on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:59:00 PST