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Shirley Jackson is Even More Relevant After Halloween
Once in a while I will get the vague inclination to revisit the twisted-yet-mundane classic stories of writer Shirley Jackson. That was her great literary power, after all: taking the mundane and then twisting it into a pretzel-panorama of abject…
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Dukes of Hazzard Reboot Possible?
What WILL the glorious and bastions of talent, originality, and innovation ruling Hollywood think of NEXT?!? PREPARE THE SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS! FACELIFTS, BUTTLIFTS, CHIN-TUCKS, and BIGGER BOOBS for EVERYONE! ——————— [A scintillating new shocker-of-a-novel by Jonathan Kieran is slated for major…
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WE Rule the Waves, Whippersnappers!
As a great white shark fanatic and surfer (or ex-surfer … does any surfer ever stop being a surfer?) I have all kinds of exciting feelins about articles of THIS NATURE. ———— [A scintillating new shocker-of-a-novel by Jonathan Kieran is…
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The New Yorker Delivers the Scoop on BIG Publishing and Its Affect on … Well, PUBLISHING!
THIS IS a pretty comprehensive under-the-microscope attempt to peek at the nitty gritty behind the age of colossal, corporate publishing and how that twelve-headed hydra has changed the entire ethos of what it means to be an “author” in the…
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Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Boys? Not THIS Time
An Aussie bloke allegedly skilled in the art of “Brazilian jujitsu,” (which is played with fruit atop one’s hat, a la Carmen Miranda?) was waltzing Matilda around an old billabong and noticed that one of his unleashed dogs was missing.…
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Anne With an E-Ticket: Forget Those Green Gables—It’s Hollywood or Bust!
“Mister, I don’t know how I ended-up in this godforsaken neck of the Canadian woods, but my ticket specifically said ‘Hollywood, USA.’ That’s where I’m going to seek my fame and fortune. Got it? Bright lights. Beautiful people. The only…
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Betting On the Big Green Bad Boy
Yes, yes, the world needs another Godzilla movie like it needs another gazillion-dollar comic book tentpole extravaganza written by twenty-two year old cognitively dissonant ADHD graduates of Dissociated U. But THIS Godzilla movie, Godzilla Minus One (whatever the hell that’s…
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WordPress Is Sucking Hind Teat
I have used this blogging site service since 2012. It’s chief attraction, for me, was a straightforward and user-friendly quality. In subsequent years, I have watched it become steadily more incoherent, convoluted, chaotic, and flat-out asinine in terms of basic…
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Everything Gets Eaten
No matter what you are in this precarious, ongoing Melodrama, from amoeba to gigabyte, your ultimate fate is to be consumed. The dolphin in THIS VIDEO was probably sick and maybe already dead when the Great White Sharks came upon…
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My Twisted Mind On Display
Here’s a gander at a rough draft of one of my early comic panels—a piece that will be included in a much larger collection to be published in late 2024 or early 2025 by Brightbourne. I have hundreds of new…
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