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A Christmas Tale or How I Learned to Love Bono

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

It was late and I was on the bus going home. The bus stopped and a family of shoeless, homeless, emaciated, wretched fools climbed on to the bus, but they didn’t have the fare and so the bus driver sent them back out into the snow – it was snowing. A lady next to me tapped me on the shoulder and softly, coquettishly said, “Well tonight, thank God it’s them instead of you!” (more…)

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Undertaking Clarissa

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

In light of the current political situation, the dog and me want to give y’all a peek at a project under deconstruction: (more…)

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do not read this, sing it!

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

do not read this, sing it!

it’s useless unless unless unless it moves you. like beating drums, like beating screwdrivers, like beating your bishop, like beating the homeless. Nothing beats like beating the homeless. And if the homeless is a girl with a family problem it’s wonderful! (more…)

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Where to Buy our Books

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Quite a few of you have been asking (it’s amazing what an Alan Moore interview can do) where you can find our books in actual bookshops: real places made from anything other than pixels. Well, here you go, get your last minute Christmas presents here… (more…)

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Honest Christmas Bonanza

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Welcome to the Honest Christmas books bonanza… (more…)

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Occupy Art. Word¹.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

I have been thinking the big things about government and civil disobedience and art and society and love and what it means to be a human being and why do we tell the stories we tell when there are so many other stories and why, when there are so many other stories, do I call myself mama, yo. (more…)

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Substance

Monday, December 12th, 2011

I often dream I am in jail. I can’t imagine why. Maybe if I did have enough imagination to imagine why, I wouldn’t dream about being in jail in the first place. But what I lack in imagination I always try to make up for in substance. (more…)

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Stop Online Piracy Act Threatens Freedom of Speech

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

It may have slipped under your radar, due to the relative lack of press coverage, but there is a bill being debated in the US Senate at the moment that has massive repercussions for the way the Internet operates in the future, and consequently for free speech in general. The bill, backed by US giants Viacom, AOL, Nike, among many others, is called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA for short. (more…)

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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

I have a big cock. I had to get that out of the way first. On paper it is easy, but in the real world it is very hard. I have a twenty-seven-inch cock. An old girlfriend called it The Onion. I was very proud of the name. Many years later I found out she called it the Onion because of the smell. I always thought she named it The Onion because it brought a tear to her eye. (more…)

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The Honest Alan Moore Interview – Part 3: On Comics, How to Break Into Comics, and Modern Culture

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Welcome to the third and final part of our interview with Alan Moore. In this concluding section, we speak to the Watchmen and V for Vendetta creator about comics, the work he has enjoyed most, the state of modern culture, the trick to making it big in the comics world, the potential of comics as a medium, and how he’d like to be remembered. (more…)

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