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Feb

Spread the Cheer

Posted by Viren  Published in Funny

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Tags: cartoon, Funny, iran, israel, mohammad cartoons, satire

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Feb

Who will watch the watchmen?

Posted by Viren  Published in Alan Moore, Book Excerpts, Book Reviews

The best part about discovering an author is researching his back catalogue and finding other great works. I looked up Alan Moore’s ‘Watchmen’ graphic novel series and just finished reading all twelve of them. What can I say? Alan Moore is a writer of the highest calibre. At first a bit skeptical, as one is [...]

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21

Feb

From Hell

Posted by Viren  Published in Alan Moore, Book Excerpts, Book Reviews

I just finished the 500+ page comic called ‘From Hell’, the one about Jack the Ripper. There’s a movie starring Johnny Depp based on this comic which turns out to be a pretty faithful rendition. Inked by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, I must say I was vastly entertained. The art is excellent in conveying [...]

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20

Feb

Yet another note on

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

the wretched North American high school educational system. Here is a post from the Scientific American blog: Wrong Answer The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen wrote a column on February 15 enititled “What Is the Value of Algebra?” Cohen recounted the case of a twelfth grader at a high school in Los Angeles who failed an [...]

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6

Feb

The Dogs of War

Posted by Viren  Published in Book Excerpts, Book Reviews, Frederick Forsyth

“But, apart from killing people, you could die yourself. You could get killed in one of these futile wars.” “Yes, and I could live on, like a battery hen, in one of these futile cities. Filling in futile forms, paying futile taxes to enable futile politicians and state managers to fritter it away on electorally [...]

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3

Feb

Eldritch?

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual, Zdzisław Beksiński

- Zdzisław Beksiński, 1975 – Zdzisław Beksiński, 1979 If you liked those here are some links with more of his pictures. Gallery 1 Gallery 2

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