Category: articles
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Etsetara 001 : Monti Fresh
Hello! Tara here, I don’t speak up that often, but Lance encouraged me to make a miscellany of my internet links for Thursdays or Fridays. So here’s my Monti fresh attempt: 1) Monti Kids Sale There’s a huge sale going on right now at Monti Kids, which many of you love. Go here. As per…
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a Defense
Nathan Rabin, film critic and cultural agnostic, coined the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” in 2007. It’s grown in popularity enough that the Nabokovian satirist and aspiring Russian Train Baron Patrick Rothfuss has this to say about himself: So folks — at least certain folks residing in Wisconsin who read The A.V. Club — are…
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RL Stevenson “Kidnapped”
From May to July in 1886, RL Stevenson published a boys’s novel Kidnapped in the magazine Young Folks. Everyone from Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel cited it as an influence. It’s a delightful little novel by RL Stevenson. I only know him through Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (A novel I need to review,…
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Clarkesworld Ai — Response to Spam
The short of that story: a sci fi magazine tossed in the towel after dealing with a logrithmic increase of submissions/rejections — Clarkesworld Ai may become a byword for the problem. The only solution I can think of in regards to something like chat gtp, is trust and some form of in person session write to…
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Protected: Pride and Prejudice book VS Pride and Prejudice life
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Pinocchio Stop Motion — True Myth of the Cruciform Lie
When we went to MoMA to see Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio stop motion exhibit, I took some pictures I will prize for… maybe the rest of my life? I didn’t expect that, to be sure. The Pinocchio stop motion exhibit featured all manner of behind-the-scenes ephemera that I might not have encountered otherwise. For a…
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Fetch — Tap and Die 022
The main attendant scrolled through. And scrolled through. “No Dawes other than a young girl.” Jack’s daughter. And his wife?
