July 2012
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June 2012
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“…the last original “Life in Hell” comic, Mr. Groening’s 1,669th strip, was...”
– Matt Groening Ends His ‘Life in Hell’ (The Comic Strip, That Is) - NYTimes.com
Syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall was quoted on Poynter.com saying:
“It’s hard to imagine how the business model that sustained alternative social-commentary and political cartooning for two decades (and is now all but...
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Brief Book Reviews by Yoda →
Not sure why Blake decided to do his mini-reviews this way, but I think it’s funny, which is reason enough.
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Watch“Remember These Days” is a beautiful story about Walter Backerman, a third-generation seltzer man in New York City. I could listen to this guy talk all day.
Walter the Seltzer Man has gotten a fair amount of publicity, including this blog post at The New York Times, which includes a delightful correction at the end.
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Here's how one reader discovered that a publisher... →
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As I was reading, I came across this sentence: “It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern….” Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find the original (well, the...
