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Should We Boycott Art Because of the Politics of the Artists?

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Ender's Golden Tablets The progress-o-sphere is all a-twitter this week reminding all and sundry that science fiction author Orson Scott Card, a practicing Mormon, believes in – wait for it – Mormonism. Among the dozens of doctrines this implies is the idea that while Card, deeply involved in stage and drama for all of his […]

Women Painting Caves

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No, it's not the latest design show on HGTV|DIY. It's what passes for news in some circles: Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists were predominantly men, so the finding overturns decades of archaeological dogma. Well, if you hang […]

Bank Shot

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This is lovely: Yesterday I set up a stall in the park selling 100% authentic original signed Banksy canvases. For $60 each. The artworks sold to probably-unwitting buyers were worth… well, considerably more than that. Click the pick for details. To learn more about Banksy, stream Exit Through the Gift Shop through your favorite service.

Bring Me The Red Pages

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One of the cable channels is showing the whole run of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in order, and so we're dipping in from time to time. I'm glad to report that it holds up quite well, as sitcoms go. At a certain juncture in tonight's episode, Murray ripped the breast pocket off Ted Baxter's jacket, […]

prog rock

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There's an old joke about prog rock: "it's the only musical genre where 23:17 could be either the time signature or the track length". Anyway, I'm a fan of prog rock. A big fan. In other news, I'm also white, middle aged, male, and have a bigger waist line than I should. All of which […]

Kickstart: Torment

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Do you remember with fond affection that masterpiece of PC gaming, Planescape: Torment? Have you never heard of Planescape: Torment? Do you wish you could dropstop everything right now and replay Planescape: Torment? Well, you're not alone. But Big Publishing is too rational or terrified to make that sort of game anymore. Happily, we can […]