I swear I read this article 20 years ago

Compare and contrast two paragraphs from an article on heroin purity: “We found people who snorted it lying face-down with the straw lying next to them,” said Patrick O’Neil, coroner in suburban Chicago’s Will County, where annual heroin deaths have nearly tripled – from 10 to 29 – since 2006. “It’s so potent that we […]

Tiny Booklist: Ventriloquism

A Multimedia List on the Subject of Ventriloquism Ventriloquist Love, a song performed by Martin Mull The Great Gabbo, a film starring Erich Von Stroheim The Entertainer and the Dybbuk, a novel by Sid Fleischman The Puppet Show, an episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Please, Take the Time

I’m not a big fan of Top (whatever number) lists, but this one is worth taking the time to enjoy it: Kon and Amir Present the Top 50 Hip-Hop Samples of All Time. They include 50 incredibly catchy soul tunes that made their way into various hip hop songs. I’m not convinced this will stay […]

Tiny Booklist: Teeth

Graphic Nonfiction That Involves Traumatic Tooth Loss Smile, Raina Telgemeier Laika, Nick Abadzis The Photographer, Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, & Frédéric Lemercier* *tooth loss in afterword

Make Your Own Magazine

Here is a fun craft activity to try (pretend there are helpful line illustrations like in kids’ magazines), making your own magazine! 1. Start a file in a word processing program that can save as a PDF (yours probably does, take a look under Save As or Export or whatever). 2. Every time you run […]

True Tales of Crime

After the Sounders game (Go Sounders!) I was in the parking garage and saw a car that really slammed into the bumper of the car next to it while pulling out of a parking space. Since the car at fault did not stop to leave information, I wrote down their license number and left it […]