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A cartoonist talking about his character

Love And Rockets’ Hernandez brothers on 30 years in comics [Quote from Xaime:] I know how she grew up emotionally—what her ups and downs were, basically, even if I don’t know the exact details. Like I said, every once in awhile, I do have to go back, but overall, it’s just this is my friend […]

Welcome to Sex House!

A masterpiece of modern satire from the Onion, they’ve really outdone themselves this time. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL622682EF88B3C077[/youtube]

No te salves

A well-formatted translation Mario Benedetti

i have a new favourite poet

Wislawa Szymborska, 1923-2012 Bunch of poems quoted on Metafilter, this one resonated with me the most. True Love True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own? Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn […]

what a drag it is getting old

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done It gets lonely. George Burns was told to date girls his age. “There are no girls my age.” For all of us, there are fewer and fewer people our age. Who wants to be the last one on board? I am happy I knew them. They […]

Indeed.

You Are Not Dead Research indicates patterns. Patterns improve predictably. And as statistics can be shown, our programming proves your worth in helping us help you temper your aimless movement. Life takes work. Death takes self. Being Not Dead takes Self Work: reflective examination, self interrogation and the guts to gash the bites and suck […]

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Pseudoprosoponic Fiction

Makers of Worlds Imagine a world – call it Mundavia – in which the dominant genre of literature is one in which plots, dialogue, and setting can be freely invented, but all the characters have to be real people.

the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree

Little Big Numbers OR: Alec – How to be an Artist, and why some stories are just too fucking massive not to be told As a writer of some of the best autobiographical fiction around, Campbell’s talent for using the right story at the right time has been carefully honed over the years, so it’s […]

“the ultimate defeat is never to have lived”

To Live (or Life After the Deluge) For as Watanabe said in the film when asked why he wasn’t angry at being stymied and turned down over and over again by the politicians and bureaucrats who preferred the status quo of doing nothing rather than taking action to help others: I can’t afford to hate […]