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Shitty Batman

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Shitty Batman is a band that also sometimes solves crimes, but mostly they’re a band. In this episode, they get caught up in a battle of the bands that turns DEADLY. And we all learn a little something about ourselves along the way. Except for Shitty Batman – they never learn anything. It’s drawn almost exclusively by hand, with real pens and pencils and stuff. And I think it’s...

The architecture of hell

T

The operation of the sun
of all aught which comes into existence.
The first selfmoving being to miracle an other.
A mover which is impossible without contradiction.

Bookbinding

B

As most people did during the early months/years of the Covid outbreak, I picked up a new hobby that didn't really go anywhere. I started "bookbinding" initially for a couple DnD campaigns, creating in-theme travel journals for my characters using a bit of glue, loose papers, and scrap fabric I had laying around.

Serendipity, Inc.

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It started like it always does. Girl meets boy, girl watches boy for weeks, girl maps out forty-seven possible conversation starters including a list of boy’s preferred hobbies and salutations in eight different languages. “Hola!” Mallory finally said. She did not speak Spanish. “Huh?” Todd replied. Mallory stared in silence. Did he just not hear her, or was it possible that a full-grown human...

Coney Island

C

“Dodge, you’re not going to believe this!  Wake up!” Roger knew, even in the disorientation that came at the end of a fitful night’s sleep, that the reason why he was being shaken and addressed so excitedly was that Jim had stumbled across something new and shiny and couldn’t wait to tell him about it.  At least three out of every five mornings started this way for Roger.  The quality of the...

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