PLANET OF PERIL (51)
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MEDIA DIET
Annalee Newitz on: paperbacks, “Interview with the Vampire,” 404Media.
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Terry Gilliam
TERRY GILLIAM (born 1940) first worked with John Cleese (and Gloria Steinem) in the early 1960s, on Harvey Kurtzman’s Help, collaborating on a fumetti:...
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21st
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Björk
Is it possible that BJÖRK (born 1965) is not an unreasonably talented singer and video artist, but just a typical Icelander who bothered to...
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20th
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The Book is a Weapon (9)
House of Mystery #201 (April, 1972). Cover illustration by Michael Kaluta. *** Ninth in an occasional series.
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20th
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Chester Gould
CHESTER GOULD (1900-85) missed his calling as a professional designer of deathtraps. In the middle of one 1943 Dick Tracy sequence Gould wrote and...
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20th
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Scurvy Note-Taking Pirates!
In the Golden Age, when the fruit of knowledge hung heavy from boughs in the grove of academe and all the birds and beasts...
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19th
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R+M (7): SUMMER, XI’AN, WARRIOR
Robot: “Summer, Xi’an, Warrior” — by Joe Alterio *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art in exchange for...
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19th
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Zygmunt Bauman
Although other scholars have been cited as soothsayers of the mechanics of our Great Recession, ZYGMUNT BAUMAN (born 1925) has been unerringly the Prophet...
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18th
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Speed Reading
In this video, our friend Shelley Jackson reads aloud from HiLo Hero Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman… while running on a treadmill at a...
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