Live Tweeting the Academy Awards with A Dave Lewis (adlewis)

My Twitter Page : http://twitter.com/mohaps

Sunday, February 22, 2009 8:45 PM
mohaps: I’m wolverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee … ha hahahahahah

mohaps: my god wolverine actually sounds like croc hunter #aa09

mohaps: @adlewis it’s all done with sci-tech thingamazigs, my backwards friend

mohaps: pineapple express redux.. #aa09

mohaps: ewwww..coke ad basically says they turn urine back into cola? #aa09

mohaps: nananannanana… you can’t touch this… nanananna… stop… it’s LEDGER time #aa09

mohaps: docu awards are on… half expecting michael moore puppet from Team America to run out shouting kablaaaaaaaaaah

mohaps: @adlewis what can i say… i’m but a man, my blood flow slave to gravity

mohaps: @themedia denise still is hot though… go wild things

mohaps: Dark Knight won sound f/x… was rooting for Wall-E on this one #aa09

mohaps: how many #oscars must go to curious case of benjamin gollum? #aa09

mohaps: Spur of the moment campaign slogan : Anna Nova for DP award #aa09 #oscars

mohaps: @adlewis Iron Man was a nominee… and Hulk was in the clips

mohaps: @gsik sludog and benjamin gollum all the way man

mohaps: @themedia at least it wasn’t an acting award

mohaps: @adlewis yeah, i forgive you, imperialist pig

mohaps: queen latifah… lady’s got the pipes…. beyonce take notice #aa09 #oscars

mohaps: the dude from mcdonald’s salad dressing is last on death montage #aa09 #oscars

mohaps: @BRIANMBENDIS O venerable master, who’s writing those 70 scripts while you’re watching TV?

mohaps: @BRIANMBENDIS saving this for cross reference during your acceptance speech for TORSO in 2015

mohaps: #aa09 #oscars the presenter kind of breezed through the other nominee names

mohaps: #aa09 #oscars wonder if india themed stuff will find more traction now in hollywood? pimp -> www.mumbaiconfidential.com

mohaps: #aa09 #oscars Sophia Loren? Shirley Mclaine? this is Girls From Brazil

mohaps: @adlewis we’ll see… young aaron… we’ll see… night’s young yet

mohaps: @adlewis damn… the broad from titanic wins best actress

mohaps: @Energia you’re richer now i hope

mohaps: #aa09 #oscars Slumdog clip intercut with Twelve Angry Men… wtf? in a good way

mohaps: #aa09 #oscars milk braveheart network … jolly good mix

mohaps: #aa09 #oscars that’s it am out folks… see ya next year

mohaps: @CXXG

mohaps: #aa09 #oscars would’ve liked one of the slumdog winners to have acknowledged the spirit of mumbai after nov 26 attacks

mohaps: @adlewis just like oscar myers wanted

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Just reached home. This time the conn was a bit depressing for me for various reasons, most prominently being away from my daughter Adya. But some cool stuff did happen, will post more as it crystallizes into something worthwhile

Meanwhile thanks to AD Lewis, I have two photos from SDCC.

Left To Right : Mark Smylie, Tom Pinchuk, Me, Kaushik Pal

As per A Dave Lewis ( compere extraordinaire and author of Lone and Level Sands, Some New Kind of Slaughter), Call for papers / abstracts dealing with Religion and Spirituality vis-a-vis Comic Books/Graphic Novels for not one, but two events are now open.

First up is the call for papers for the companion volume to  the Graven Images conference and the second is for

“Reclaiming the Comic Book Canon” – 40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) to be held in Boston from Feb. 26-March 1, 200.

Here are the detailed guidelines for submitting papers / abstracts

NeMLA CALL FOR PAPERS (MSWORD DOC/22 KB)

GRAVEN IMAGES CALL FOR PAPERS (PDF/48KB)

I shall be at NYCC whole day on 19th April (saturday) and in the evening I shall be on the panel “Our Gods Wear Spandex – secret history of superheroes” with Chris Knowles (the author), G. Willow Wilson (CAIRO) and Douglas Rushkoff (TESTAMENT). The panel is moderated by A. Dave Lewis (Lone and Level Sands, Some New Kind of Slaughter).

Panel Details from PW Beat:

**A. David Lewis, hot on the heels of his Graven Images conference (http://www.bu.edu/luce/calendar/religionincomics.html), will be moderating a panel on Saturday, Apr 19 at 5 p.m. in room 1E02. It’s a discussion of Chris Knowles’s book Our Gods Wear Spandex. G. Willow Wilson will be on the panel with Dave, along with Douglas Rushkoff (Testament) and Denny O’Neil.

Looking forward to it

Yay! Attended the “Religion in Comics” panel hosted by BU as part of their “Graven Images” conference yesterday. Had a whale of a time with fellow panelists Mark Smylie (writer – ARTESIA, Publisher – ASP comics), G Willow Wilson (CAIRO), Steve Ross (writer/artist – MARKED). The panel was moderated by A. Dave Lewis (writer – LONE AND LEVEL SANDS, SOME NEW KIND OF SLAUGHTER).

We had a pretty hearty discussion about how religion is portrayed in comic books and the challenges that lie in writing comics with religious and spiritual themes. One of the most interesting parts of the conference was getting to know about the reaction to India authentic in academic circles. It makes all my efforts worthwhile when people walk up to meand tell him that they really liked the INDIA AUTHENTIC stories and that it is being made into required reading in south asian studies programs (details to come).

Later that day, I attended my first ever signing at the BU Barnes and Noble where we continued our earlier discussion in more casual setting as part of the “Graphically Religious” author meet at B&N. Here is a photo from the signing (more to come).

From left to right: Dave, Your truly, Willow, Steve and Mark From left to right: Me, Mark (photo courtsey : Dave Moran) From left to right: Willow, Dave, Me, Steve and Mark (photo courtsey : Dave Moran)