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[thenearsightedmonkey]

Dear Workbook 52 students,

I left out an important step when I was showing you how to use the words and questions method of approaching academic writing.

It should have gone like this:

Pick a word and a question and do an X page jam about it for three minutes.

Then write for seven minutes.

Then do a review frame about what you’ve written.

When I demonstrated it, I forgot to have you write. 

Best,

The Absent-Minded Professor HotDog

PS This method was developed by Dr. Ebony Flowers while she was working on her dissertation.  See her work here.

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Happy Friday, everyone.

[roxanegay]

All I really need to say:

In canceling Milo’s book contract, Simon & Schuster made a business decision the same way they made a business decision when they decided to publish that man in the first place. When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized it would cost them more money to do business with Milo than he could earn for them. They did not finally “do the right thing” and now we know where their threshold, pun intended, lies. They were fine with his racist and xenophobic and sexist ideologies. They were fine with his transphobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. They were fine with how he encourages his followers to harass women and people of color and transgender people online. Let me assure you, as someone who endured a bit of that harassment, it is breathtaking in its scope, intensity, and cruelty but hey, we must protect the freedom of speech. Certainly, Simon & Schuster was not alone in what they were willing to tolerate. A great many people were perfectly comfortable with the targets of Milo’s hateful attention until that attention hit too close to home.

Because I’ve been asked, I will not be publishing my book with Simon & Schuster now that they have dropped Milo. After I pulled my book, they changed the release date of Dangerous from March to June 13, the day my next book, Hunger, comes out. I said nothing because I was neither threatened nor concerned but it did reinforce for me that this was not a company I wanted to do business with. My protest stands. Simon & Schuster should have never enabled Milo in the first place. I see what they are willing to tolerate and I stand against all of it. Also, I’ve received far better offers for How to Be Heard from other publishers.

There are some who will spin the cancellation of this book contract as a failure of the freedom of speech but such is not the case. This is yet another example of how we are afforded the freedom of speech but there is no freedom from the consequences of what we say.

[pierrotlepoo-deactivated2021092]

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this 22-second clip of thom yorke spinning “1 thing” is gonna get me through the next 4 years

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FUCK TR*MP T-Shirt

Express your feelings about our president-elect with this elegant tee! 5% royalty on each t-shirt will be donated to the ACLU.

I made a goofy joke and turned it into a t-shirt. Buy yourself one if you are also not too fond of Trump, or if you like to wear clothes with cusses. 

This is available on any product Zazzle offers, btw. Men’s shirts, onesies, mugs, you name it! Just choose “More” from the Style category at the right-hand side of the page.

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I’ve really been feeling 1970s science fiction art (like that found on @70sscifiart for example) and so made this self-portrait in a 70s sci-fi style. My favorite pieces combine a really rough dry brush effect with really intricate, detailed stars or clouds or a crisp shiny spaceship, and that contrast was what I wanted to emulate here. I also wanted to hang out in the cool part of the spectrum without falling prey to the Purple Scourge that so much 70s art uses. So here we are! A thing I made, and am proud of.

[danielclowesreader]

All Clowes’ Eve!

A perennial favorite for our desiccated, I mean dedicated readers!  A DIY Hallowe’en mask based on an image from Clowes’s “Immortal, Invisible.”  This DEADpan holiday tale first appeared in Eightball #16 (1995) and reappears in the collection Caricature.

See here for all the “how to” details:

http://danielclowes.blogspot.com/2012/10/halloween-post-part-2-immortal.html

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Detail from the 1970 Ted Coconis poster for Dorian Gray

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The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin (art by Essy May)

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Bob Peak

[danielclowes]

SPX 2016 panel with Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns interviewed by Eric Reynolds.

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Smooth seventies vibes get the fern bar treatment with what seems, at first, like an obscure tv talent. Played straight, but increasingly implausible, the silly-sweet video is a nice contrast to the melancholy lyrics (and a cute play on the plea, “oh why, why does it rain inside?”) Beautiful black and white cinematography is just the cherry on top.

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I think this every time I see this book cover "Have you heard of this fascinating German band called The Scorpions? In a way they remind me of you, and our conversations about freedom and creativity. I believe it's a fable by the great Aesop in which we learn that a scorpion cannot change its nature- and after all, isn't all art an attempt to escape our own nature? Anyway, I hear the children getting up, and I forgot to take the garbage out. It's garbage day, you know. Every Thursday and Sunday. But alternate side parking is Wednesdays. Have you signed up for our Blockwatch newsletter? Lots of interesting stuff in there."

[sttngfashion]

This might be…the best thing I’ve ever made?