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Big Broder Is Watching You
Book and magazine covers by Swedish graphic designer Olle Eksell (1918-2007):
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I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #14
Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers: John Jodzio’s If You Lived…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #42
Lead paint’s only dangerous to babies and Superman. I know you’re not Superman, but you can be a real goddamn baby so maybe it’s best you stay away from my art. You wouldn’t get it anyway—I’m mostly influenced by Cubanism.…
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Very Scary and Very Out of Hand
On AOL News, Glynnis MacNicol writes a nice article about her thoughts on the recent outrage over the proposed mosque a few blocks away from ground zero. MacNicol imagined that the Muslim community center would be a non-issue for New…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope this is ok. Welcome to the world, tiny tiny new frog. Turning music and weather information into sculptures. Pynchon on plagiarism. (via GerryCanavan.) Don Kenn‘s monster drawings. Um, this is article about using heat rays in prison. The…
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Shalom Auslander
As someone who was raised with reform Judaism, my negative experiences with religion pale next to Auslander’s.
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Here’s Some Essays I Like
It’s that time again: here’s some very short nonfiction that’ll only take a minute to read but that will make you feel something. “Connie was albino, exceptionally white even by the ultra-Caucasian standards of our southern suburb. Only her eyelids…
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Introducing Crud Wizard
“My favorite band is Iron Maiden and I hate Reagan, and hippies, and Jesus.” Via Westword, I came across Crud Wizard, a nine year-old’s metal blog. His dad is helping him, and that’s pretty obvious, but his voice still comes…
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Color Russian Photos from 100 Years Ago
I don’t usually take single photographic links and make one post out of them, but sometimes something is so freakin’ cool… From 1909 to 1912, the Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was given a crap-ton of money by the Tsar…
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I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #13
Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers: Paul Muldoon’s Wayside Shrines: “During…
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They Want To Ruin Our Children
“But there’s a more pressing issue at hand: after little Joshua—the story’s grinning, crapping hero—learns where to drop his bombs, he does not once wear pants.” — At The Millions, Jacob Lambert laments the subversive nature of Once Upon a Potty…
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Stephen Elliott on sex
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott talks sex and discusses subsidizing sex workers for the disabled in an interview with podcasters Kink On Tap.