i don't know why i took this class ( Read more... )

I’ve learned that reality’s awkwardly bent ( Read more... )

The Spirit, by Will Eisner, is the best comic ever written. In the fourties, when mainstream comics were written by hacks who had no desire to make art of their creations, Eisner was writing, drawing, inking, lettering, and publishing a years-long line of 7-page opuses, which were, at the height of their popularity, circulated nationally as a ( Read more... )

"One of the chief causes that can be assigned for the curiously commonplace character of most of the literature of our age is undoubtedly the decay of Lying as an ort, a science, and a social pleasure. The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction ( Read more... )

bitterness; commented back to itself so i (and you) don't have to look at it.

bitterness; commented back to itself so i (and you) don't have to look at it.

guys, awesomeness alert: jimmy illustrated (link) that poem. So spiffy. also, the rest of his blog is amazing and delightful, and i reccomend that you check out his amazing creatures.

Conundrum & Suggestion

you have my heart (i think you know)
and i don't want it back.
i've run into a problem, though:
i'm left somewhat alack.

i tried to find a backup heart;
i looked in all the stores.
there weren't any anywhere!
may i please borrow yours?

I am so terribly afraid of the new stalkerbook. Sooooo afraid. At least i still have LJ. LJ, stay emo, not creepy! And now, a poem ( Read more... )

"I hope they never make pot legal. I'd be out so much business!"
-J., a drug dealer

Earlier, J. and his partner professed to me the harmless nature of cocaine, which they claimed is perfectly safe and "not really addictive if you only use it once or twice a week." The reason that pot is a gateway drug is that children are lied to about it, and ( Read more... )