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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some old illustrations of cephalopods for you. Tetris is all sorts of good for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. These are things we know. Ben Wilson paints gum on the…
The Funny Women Interview with Amy Sedaris
Feeling down? Make a Self-Esteem Shell Collage! Write a poem on a piece of paper about you and the ocean and about how you feel about the ocean and why…
220,000 Copies
Hey, George W. Bush, you’ve done so many worse things… much, much, much worse. Still: Fuck you!
Write (and Draw) What You Know
“That’s why I read comics with fucked up sex stuff and murders and violence. Cuz that’s what life is.” An anonymous comic book shop employee is taking real quotes from…
Space Avalanche
SPACE AVALANCHE: Childhood Trauma Another fantastic Rumpus comic from Eoin Ryan.
10/40/70 #27: Shadow of a Doubt
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Almost a quarter of Americans don’t have broadband, saying it’s unnecessary and overpriced. The British Monarchy marches into the 21st century with a Facebook page, Twitter account. Here’s some more…
The Last Book I Loved: Rat Girl
The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that genius and creativity were literal spirits, both apart from and outside the artist’s body. The artist’s role was to serve as conduit, and…
Soften the Razor’s Edge, the Reign of Terror
Many poems, and many more lines, couplets and quatrains in Opal Sunset are superb, making their lesser companions wan imitations of what Clive James can really do when his interior…