Want to be in the office watching Monty Python and not get in trouble?

It's 20 Business Lessons learned from Monty Python.

One of the guys at work is a big fan of "alternative rap" (or whatever moniker it's labeled as these days).

I had heard about NASA's The Spirit of Apollo, but until he mentioned it, I hadn't paid much about it.

NASA is a dj collective based in LA and stands for North America/South America (Apollo brings the Brazillian funk).

They've put together some amzing collaborations between rappers and alt-rockers.

You've got Chuck D/David Byrne/Seu Jorge, RZA/John Frusicante, Karen O/Ol Dirty Bastard, Tom Waits/Kool Keith, and a lot more.

The critics have been pretty harsh about this release, and admittedly, I have just started to discover this album, but I think it's pretty good.

Here's Kanye West with Santogold and Lykke Li.

This week, DC Comics premiered their 12-part Wednesday Comics.

Like Warren Ellis, I have to credit DC for doing something different.

Wednesday Comics is going to be a weekly comic that is supposed to be a twist on the Sunday comic serials.  In fact, it's not a comic book at all.  It looks like a Sunday comics section or maybe more accurately, a college newspaper.

It's a great idea in theory.  14 stories across the DC spectrum (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Katmandi, Sgt, Rock, Strange Adventures), and an impressive lineup (Gaiman and Allred, Palmiotti and Connor, Adam and Joe Kubert, Kyle Baker, Dave Gibbons, Azzarello, Busiek, Paul Pope).

So far, so good, and set up like the Sunday comics in that a story can standalone or continue from week to week.

Baker, Busiek, and Gaiman sold it for me, but I just don't know if I will make it to issue two.

I appreciate the thought behind it, but it doesn't give me enough.

Despite not being a .. you know...actual comic book, it is $3.99 an issue.  I could probably justify that (there are no ads except on the back page and there are 14 writer/artist teams involved).

Each comic (except 2) gets a full page.  Of course, this means you generally get 6-9 panels per comic.  I know that is the theme of the comic, but it's not enough to suck me in.

Wednesday Comics will require patience on the reader's part and a bit of a financial commitment, and the first issue didn't give me enough reason to give either one.

Great idea.  I would have liked to seen half the stories, and half the price, and you could have thrown in ads, and I would have been sold.