Monthly Archives: June 2011

Little Boxes #52

(from Batman #404, script by Frank Miller and art by David Mazzucchelli, 1987)

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Tea With Chris: The Seeds, the Stones

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Carl: Peter Falk expressed more humanity in a shrug or a cough than most actors … Continue reading

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Friday Pictures – Alison Yip


from You and Me and the Sea


from You and Me and the Sea

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Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (2011)

by Carl Wilson There’s been plenty of praise already for this posthumous volume of work by not only The New Yorker’s first pop writer but one of the first rock critics (as opposed to reviewers) – who went missing from … Continue reading

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Little Boxes #51

(from “Snake ‘n’ Bacon: Up All Night,” by Michael Kupperman, 2011)

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Friday Pictures – Lindsay Fisher


Self as Francis Bacon

 

 Waiting room

 

 

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Tea With Chris: You Don’t Need a Penis

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Carl: I’ve often made half-baked speculations about how younger people are listening to and relating … Continue reading

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“Boom!” (1968), by Joseph Losey

by Chris Randle An aging, infamous figure dies isolated at their elaborate compound. Elizabeth Taylor in Boom!, that is, which I happened to be watching last month around the same time that Osama bin Laden made his unmourned exit. The … Continue reading

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Little Boxes #50

  Lady Gaga by Hellen Jo, from Prison for Bitches, 2010)

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Tea With Chris: Salvador Dali’s Flower Shop

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: Usamaru Furuya doesn’t just draw gory black comedy. Sometimes he makes heartwarming comics about … Continue reading

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