Breaking Bad outside the US
Still my greatest hit to date; at last count this cartoon had been viewed more than 10 million times in dozens of platforms and publications.
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Nainaine of the Bayou
Young Nell wanders the swamps and flooded ruins of what used to be New Orleans, accompanied only by her dead grandmother.
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The Watchers in the Dark
“Paul first saw the dark thing one night when he let Duke outside. It was there in the light that spilled from the kitchen, staring at him. Paul went stiff, every instinct telling him to turn and run, but the thing was gone.”
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Eastwooding
Yes, that’s an original image. And yes, I’m quite proud of myself. Clint Eastwood is one of my favorite actors and directors. He got famous acting in movies that glorified guns and violence, and graduated to directing introspective films about the toll violence takes on the human soul. Unforgiven is my favorite Western, and one
Joel Ward is not his Twitter critics
I had a very brief back-and-forth tonight with Greg Wyshynski from Puck Daddy, but as sometimes happens I had to come here to explain myself in a bit more detail. To clarify, my complaint is not with Greg himself or with Puck Daddy specifically. It’s with the hockey media in general, but since I know
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Trayvon Martin and the myth of a post-racial America
The lukewarm response from many white Americans to the murder of Trayvon Martin has been upsetting – but I think it has less to do with overt racism, and more to do with white America’s reluctance to believe that racism is alive and well in America, and not just a part of our past.
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Toll Road
The Pike is long and perilous, patrolled by Catholic knights and the nationalist bikers of the Order of the Coming Dawn. Bayle might have stayed in the ruins of Pittsburgh, but he made a promise.
Self-publish, or learn to fly?
Literary agent Colleen Lindsay this morning tweeted Laura Miller’s recent Salon article about how the future of literature will be shaped by e-book and on-demand print self-publishing services. Miller observes that these services promote themselves as a means to circumvent the “elite literary gatekeepers,” and that their customers are really authors, not readers. She points out,
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Sexting, and What it Means to be a Girl
“The boys who traded their photos bear no responsibility; instead the girls are threatened with felony charges and life-long registration as sex offenders.
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Study: Dinosaurs would devour our celebrity athletes
Found this at FauxNews*: Study: Tyrannosaurus Rex Could Outrun Most Humans My absolute favorite line in the article is: “While not incredibly fast, this carnivore [T. rex] was certainly capable of running and would have little difficulty in chasing down footballer David Beckham, for instance,” Manning said. What a downer. If dinosaurs were alive today,
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