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Sink or Swim: Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups
Besides baseball, coffee, and my music collection, I probably obsess over how I read RSS feeds more than anything. Sometimes it feels like I tinker with the setup more than I actually read the news, but I’m making progress. I won’t claim to be completely satisfied with how or why I try to consume so …
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Tombs of the Grand Masters of the Knights of Malta
Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum Founded in the 11th century as a lay religious order of hospital workers who observed vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in Jerusalem, the Knights of Malta (variously known as: Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem; the Soverign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of… Tombs of the …
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LUST News! Very Exciting Advance Copies!!!
I just drove up to Fantagraphics and got a couple hot-off-the-press advance copies – yay!!! – and I have one in my paws AT THIS MOMENT (…and, that’s a Spongebob band-aid on my thumb). And here it is, ON MY SHELF! There’s a gold foil on the spine, too. I love a good spine! Also: …
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WORDS AND PICTURES
When words and pictures are combined to tell a story, one medium or the other usually ends up doing most of the heavy lifting. Personally, I prefer art where the picture plays a more important role than the words. But the People In Charge of Handing Out Awards seem to have a different view. The …
Four Color #1042
Four Color #1042Four Color #1042
Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it – just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at a men’s store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black …
Advice for travelers
Stop for a good night’s rest: good advice for anyone doing a long-distance drive this Thanksgiving weekend. Close cover before striking: good advice for us all. Wikipedia: Williams, Arizona was “the last town to have its section of Route 66 bypassed.” My son Ben found this matchbook on the street. Who could’ve dropped it? Someone …
Goodbye Madame Butterfly
Bookslut’s Colleen Mondor brought Goodbye Madame Butterfly and Chin Music Press to my attention. Like the hardcover of Dave Eggers’ What is the What, there’s no dustjacket – the illustration is imprinted directly on the cover. Check out the beautiful endpapers. And how cool is this: “The full-color illustrations on the cover, the endpapers and …
Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World
CIA paparazzo Trevor Paglen is a thorn in Uncle Sam’s side. Known for snapping telephoto candids of CIA planes and Area 51, the artist also gathers “patch intel,” which he’s collected in this provocative book (main title: “I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me”). The fruit of several …
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