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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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The article is titled “35 Splendid Examples of Forced Perspective Photography”, but few if any of them are truly splendid. Still, contractually obligated to link to it.
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 […]
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 […]
A very amusing collection of Kim Jong-il’s visits to various industrial sites with a hilariously dry introduction. For maximum enjoyment, watch for his, er, limited sartorial choices.