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theworkshopblog:And hot on the heels of this week’s episode,...

theworkshopblog:

And hot on the heels of this week’s episode, here’s LA Review of Book’s review of Short Century:

Gerrard takes the reader from discussions of war, journalism, and their agencies into a metaphysical, almost Nabokovian intrigue… In the same way that drone warfare has shifted opinions about “right” and “wrong” warfare, Short Century produces a taboo that is essential to our understanding of history and humanity.

I take a break this week and scottcheshire (@scottcheshire)...

I take a break this week and scottcheshire (@scottcheshire) joins Kaitlyn Greenidge (@kkgreenidge) in convo w/ David Burr Gerrard (@DBGerrard)!

theworkshopblog:

David Burr Gerrard, author of “Short Century”, joins us to talk about politics in fiction, the phenomenon of “sorry not sorry” and sex as a historic act on this week’s episode of The Workshop!

Internet, I need everything you’ve got on El Santo RIGHT...

Internet, I need everything you’ve got on El Santo RIGHT NOW

In Mexico there are two very different worlds of Lucha Libre....

In Mexico there are two very different worlds of Lucha Libre. There are the elaborate shows that take place in massive arenas in the country’s largest urban areas. Although they don’t look that much like a WWE show, they are of the same scale. 

On the other end of the spectrum, there’s Mexican street wrestling. There is a high demand for wrestling events in the country, but a large percentage of the impoverished population is unable to afford the cost of a ticket to a professional show. That’s created a secondary market for traveling backyard events, where wrestlers on Mexico City’s underground circuit for the crowds.

Come on, youtube, don’t fail me now…

magictransistor:Roland Topor (1938-1997)

magictransistor:

Roland Topor (1938-1997)

lols4lyfe:twinpersonalitys:ironychan:redcaplf:…...

lols4lyfe:

twinpersonalitys:

ironychan:

redcaplf:

… Clockodiles? Is that pun very bad?

CLOCKODILES.

somewhere captain hook is shitting himself

This is gonna “tick” some people off

I miss Neo Louisiana

tone deaf?

tone deaf?

"What interests me about novelists as a species is the obsessiveness of the activity, the fact that..."

“What interests me about novelists as a species is the obsessiveness of the activity, the fact that novelists have to go on writing. I think that probably must come from a sense of the irrecoverable. In every novelist’s life there is some more acute sense of loss than with other people, and I suppose I must have felt that. I didn’t realize it, I suppose, till the last ten or fifteen years. In fact you have to write novels to begin to understand this. There’s a kind of backwardness in the novel…an attempt to get back to a lost world.”

- John Fowles (via booklover)

explore-blog:The best illustrations from three centuries of...

explore-blog:

The best illustrations from three centuries of Arabian Nights, some of humanity’s greatest and most influential storytelling.

fantagraphics:cryptofwrestling:The Supersuckers - The Smoke...

fantagraphics:

cryptofwrestling:

The Supersuckers - The Smoke of Hell
(1992)

Classic Daniel Clowes art

Clowes #TBT