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Book Review: Crecy

“Cunt.”
There. I said it. If it bothers you, by all means stay away from Warren Ellis’ highly entertaining graphic novel Crecy.
Best known for the sci-fi noir comic Transmetropolitain, this time Ellis takes you on a first hand journey through England’s 1346 invasion of France. The book is named after the battle (named after the town) […]

Annie Leibovitz: A Rock N’ Roll Photographer

I’m a big fan of music photography. I love buying these hundred dollar coffee table books and looking through some of music’s best moments. One of my favorite photographers is Annie Leibovitz.
Annie missed out on the sixties, with Woodstock and the entire hippie scene but she did manage to capture some of the more “pop” […]

Pulp-Fiction Podcasts: The Simple Joy of A Tale Well Told

Back in the day, (and by that I mean several thousand years ago) there were no books, and no movies; no pulp fiction, no literature, no drama, or horror, or romance. There were only people to listen and stories to be told. The single greatest thing about recorded stories is how they embrace this basic […]

Ten Books I’d Make into Movies If I Had a Skijillion Dollars

I’m willing to bet at one point you’ve finished reading a book and thought. “Man, if I had a spare two hundred and fifty million lying around I’d make this into a movie faster than you could say ‘Yeah, that’ll be the day’.” In fact, if you read as much as I do you probably […]

A Sense of Belonging: Miranda July, David Byrne and Becky Stark

The audience is getting excited.

They start humming with chuckles as Miranda removes this cumbersome vase from the table, saying, “We don’t need that,” and places it on the floor two seconds after she was just introduced by New York Public Library Director of Public Programs and highfalutin minister of cool, Paul Holdengraber.
“And there are two […]

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