The Best Robert Crumb Interviews
The Comics Journal Library: R. Crumb Fantagraphics puffery says: Collecting four long out-of-print interviews from the Utne Independent Press &
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After a fashion it was H.L. Mencken who inspired me to begin keeping a weblog. Back in the old American &
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Good thing I don?t have a copy of Against Interpretation at hand. As much as I loved Sontag?s essay on &
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An on-line "webliography" focusing on crime and mystery fiction, Canadian in general but they seem to cover everything. Searchable database &
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I have a healthy stock of literary reference books but they aren?t always at hand or complete. The Literary Encyclopedia &
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Being ?politically correct? can be as sensitive to conservatives as liberals. Either way it can easily abuse the language and &
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I?ve read some pop trash online. But I?ve avoided more substantial works. I don?t like reading continuously on the computer &
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The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator.I?m not crazy &
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Heterosexual persons are sometimes thought to be good at certain arts and crafts. From The Pin-up FilesAlready posted this elsewhere &
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There's new age fiction, typically novels where people go on spiritual quests and find enlightenment by meeting some shaman (shades &
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Observation as a bookseller. Many of the same kids who look to Hesse, Rand and Kerouac for the meaning of &
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You never know what odd, amusing websites will appear: hello, and welcome to pseudodictionary, the place where words you?ve made &
Read entire articleDeath of the middlebrow
Yet there was a time, not so long ago, when such reading lists were not only not ?questionable,? they &
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A must for the beloved postmodernists on your Christmas list: Keenly aware of the fluidity of social identities, this 6.5" &
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This weblog can be read on Live Journal by adding the RSS feed to your Live Journal friends list: LJ &
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Locus reports: For Us, the Living, the first novel Robert A. Heinlein wrote, has been sold to Scribner?s and Pocket &
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Normally I keep my meta-weblogging entries in their own safe ghetto in Computer Toaster. Possibly annoying people who come here &
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I read this a month or two ago when it came out. Found myself rereading when it showed up on &
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Charles and I rented Next Best Thing. I?’d never seen Madonna in a movie before. Now I know why she?’s &
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. . . every gay man's dream, every straight man's nightmare . . . Joan Crawford is Turner Classic &
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I guess I was part of the first generation to be described as "raised by television." I don't think the &
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I feel marginally accomplished this evening. I spent part of the day rearranging the front room. It could be called &
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Almost apocalyptic aren't they. (It isn't a question.) Even though he's hated the last couple of seasons Charles has retained &
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I've been spending lots of time on Amazon.com ordering unglamorous but useful things like a USB Hub. A couple of &
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I'm surprised how often I see references to comic books in journals that I read and websites that I visit. &
Read entire articleHer eyes were as cold as diamonds in anarctica. Her smile as tight as a traffic cop's.
I've rarely been able to read many mystery novels. There've been a few exceptions, notably Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series &
Read entire articleRelax ... It's Just Sex
Like most of the gay-themed movies Charles and I have been watching Relax ... It's Just Sex has a scattering &
Read entire articleThe Object of My Affection
In The Object of My Affection a straight woman and a gay guy become platonic lovers and agree to raise &
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The nicest thing about selling used books and CDs is things you don't know you'd like to have present themselves &
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Saturday I took a stack of Sarah Vaughan live concerts to play at work. Jazz singers are often at their &
Read entire articleGet Real
Charles and I watched Get Real back to back with Boyfriends. Another English 'dramatic comedy.' Pretty, closeted Steven is our &
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Boyfriends Three pairs of English gay guys spend a weekend in the countryside. The main couple (Paul and Ben), after &
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I first discovered Harvey Fierstein on Politically Incorrect. He struck me as the funniest person ever on the show (making &
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It hit me just recently that I never lusted after boys in the locker-room. Not that I was in there &
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