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#31HorrorFilms31Days essential listening: Sigourney Weaver by John Grant

Nelson: "You're gonna die."

Will: "Not helping."

LOOKING BACK: QUARANTINE TONE

Over the course of writing the first three books, we were always looking for images that nailed the vibe of the world inside McKinley High. Here’s a sampler...

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Peter Freuchen and his second wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn in 1947. Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question.

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Just when you start thinking you’ve had a Real Life, you read something like this and… nope. Not even started.

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Idiocracy | 2006 | dir. Mike Judge

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If you’re anything like me, there aren’t enough hours in the day (or in your life) to read every book on your decades-long reading list. It’s a cold, hard fact, but you can make yourself feel a little better about it by plowing through some short fiction at those times when it isn’t convenient to hold open a book. Life-changing fiction is amazing, but life-changing fiction that only takes fifteen minutes to tear through is even better.

Looking for something to read on your lunch break? B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy blog offers six brain-bending recommendations.

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Painting of Children’s Imagination by Craig Davison

Craig Davison is an artist from England whose imagination overflows onto his canvas. He says, “Everywhere I look images and ideas are lining up to be used” via. He paints children at play and in the background their imagination comes to life. In this series he paints children playing as Star Wars characters. To purchase Craig Davison’s art visit Washington Green Fine Art. Thanks to Hidden Art!

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