
Never Bring a Pen to a Sword Fight
OnThey say the pen is mightier than the sword, but it is way easier to kill a guy with a sword than with a pen.
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They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but it is way easier to kill a guy with a sword than with a pen.
I guess I have a soft-spot for weird, short-lived magazines. I’ve talked about how much I love RAW here before, and now I’ve just read Leonard Koren’s book Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing about, well, making WET: The Magazine of…
Frieze is the fourth art fair I’ve tasked myself with reporting. I’m not sure how extensively I should discuss the parts of it that are the same as all other art fairs. However, needless to say that I have to be slightly…
For people of a certain age, it’s almost mind-blowing to think that Cracked is good now. Back when it was a magazine that was a knockoff of MAD, Dan Clowes‘ (a Cracked contributor in the ’80s) description was right: It was “comedy…
Image via Wikipedia So, my glasses broke in two about two weeks ago. This is not fun when, without them, you’re legally blind. Trust me on this one. Anyway, everything’s fine now — I got my new glasses and I can see…
Image via Wikipedia We here at Kittysneezes are pretty big fans of Coil, so it’s really sad to hear about the death of Peter Christopherson, one-half of that band, one-fourth of inventors-of-Industrial Throbbing Gristle, and a wicked awesome designer, music video director…
The first sentence of this review (the synopsis part) was written not-on-Ambien, which I guess is fairly obvious, but maybe worth mentioning. Also, I wrote this the same night as Shutter Island, and these are the “innermost thoughts” I refer to in…
Scot Sothern is an underappreciated writer and photographer, who after years of obscurity, is now (hopefully) in the first stage of discovery with Lowlife, a gallery show at the DRKRM Gallery in Los Angeles, which features photographs of street prostitutes along with…
[Purchase Book] When I bought a copy of Evguénie Sokolov by Serge Gainsbourg, I thought it was, in fact, Serge Gainsbourg by Evguénie Sokolov. I had no idea that Gainsbourg had written a novella — I just figured the slim volume was…
Image via Wikipedia In 2005, Studio Bones brought to the Japanese airwaves a rather unique science-fiction animated television series entitled Eureka Seven. The series ran from April 2005 to April 2006 and followed the lives of Renton Thurston and a young girl…