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1. 2 days ago on Ink Pen

   Just finished a great fantasy novel, “The House of Open Wounds” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s like cross between M*A*S*H and LOTR. Various magical outcasts are drafted to act as healers for a heartless Empire.

2. 4 days ago on Looks Good on Paper

   There was a an old horror anthology “Under The Fang.” The main idea was that circa 1980 the vampires decide to take over the entire world. One of the first things they do is head to San Clemente and turn a certain ex-President

3. 4 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

   Nice way to get around the autocensor. I give it a week.

4. 5 days ago on Shoe

   john leguizamo made a joke that the Spanish language TV station in New York had blue eyed blondes from Argentina doing the news for Puerto Ricans.

5. 5 days ago on Ink Pen

   Somewhat off topic. Back in the day, there was one sign that was higher and more prominent than any other in Times Square. Suntory Whiskey was made and sold in Japan and most Americans had never heard of it. But the company owners were smart and knew that Japanese people would see the sign in pictures and think that it was popular all over the world.

6. 6 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   There was an Agatha Christie novel from the 1930s. A sassy English lass is at an international young people’s conference and someone says the meeting will hopefully let people understand each other better. The English lass says that if people really understood each other there’d be more wars, not fewer.

7. 6 days ago on Last Kiss

   We don’t own them, they own us.

8. 7 days ago on Wondermark

   I can imagine that at some point in the future there will be Cold War reenactors similar to the ones who refight the Civil War or the Roman invasion of Britain. A big event will be rebuilding the Berlin Wall…

9. 8 days ago on Speed Bump

   Why A Duck?

10. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

    If you think about it, the classic Western hero, tight lipped, isolating, and quick to violence, is pretty much a diagnosis of depression. The highest paid worker on a cattle drive was the cook; that’s how desperate cowboys were for any pleasure