Author Archives: Ralph

The Flying McCoys

This zany strip enters the comic-collection scene with circus-like zeal. All that’s missing is a parade of elephants and a clown-car escort. Gary and Glenn McCoy’s delightfully absurd comic panel blends superheroes, office humor, huggable animals, and twisted relationships in a bizarre marriage of Gary Larson, the New Yorker, Conan O’Brien, and Mad Magazine. Put…

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Wait…Is This House Melting? In November? Okay, Global Warming, You Win!

This may seem like an ordinary house, but look closer and it looks like something out of a Salvador Dali painting. That’s right, it’s melting. (And, no, it’s not actually related to global warming.) As part of the Merge Festival, London based Alex Chinneck has made a 2 story house made entirely of wax and beds of terracotta…

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‘Fuck you, Jackie Chan’: U.S. responds to ingrate communist actor’s bashing

http://twitter.com/#!/jason_howerton/status/290188537511440384 @eyeofjackiechan Fuck you Jackie Chan — gary stranyord (@gstranyord153) January 13, 2013 Oh no he didn’t!!! >>Actor Jackie Chan calls U.S. ‘most corrupt’ country in the world is.gd/ZvqGyn — Lucid Dream (@Anonlucid) January 12, 2013 Oh, no, he didn’t? Oh, yes, he did. In a Chinese television interview last month, Hong Kong-born box-office star…

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Revenge of the She-Punks

As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes—identity, money, love, and protest—to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one…

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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

When the neighborhood inventor creates a shrinking machine and accidentally shrinks his own children and their friends, the kids find everyday activities an adventure and a peril. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“BAHtKoZAQ1EC”, 500,400);

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The Possum King

The Possum King is set in the fictional town of Clayton, South Carolina, in 1974. The story revolves around the Bishop family as they await the return of family patriarch Frank Bishop, a career soldier who has been away at war in Vietnam. The story is told from the point of view of fourteen-year-old Marcus…

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Jay Carney exploits Newtown victims to push tax increases

http://twitter.com/#!/mctclover/status/280753998913470464 I can’t believe what Jay Carney just said. Didnt think anyone could sink that low. — Erin Haust (@erinhaust) December 17, 2012 We now have to raise taxes on rich bc we don’t want to burden parents with kids w mental illness Jay Carney just said. WTF!? @speakerboehner — ErinZing (@Ezinger44) December 17, 2012…

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