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To be governed
From “What Is Government?” by Clifford Peter Harper, a visual adaptation of text by Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Published in Anarchy Comics #3, July 1981, Last Gasp Comics “To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, … Continue reading
Cabinet of Curiosities (sort of)
Check out the disappointed tourist: an elegy to lost places, a record of those grand and mundane places lost to time or other occurrences, whose presence we continue to mourn. “It would be better to describe reading not as a … Continue reading
Refugee Blues
Refugee Blues Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.Once we had a country and we thought … Continue reading
Because bookshops make everything better, don’t they?
I promise you that this article —I opened a bookshop. It was the best, worst thing that I’ve ever done—will make your day. What a wholesome short read: Chloe Fox shares the emotional journey of opening Fox & King, an … Continue reading
Ex Libris
You don’t have to be a bibliophile to enjoy this marvelous animated short film created by Garik Seko. Although he was born in Georgia, he spent most of his working life in Prague. Seko specialized in the animation of physical … Continue reading
Bookstore (the play)
The Bookstore by Michael Walek opened January 10 off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters. Produced by New Jersey Repertory Company, the play is directed by William Carden and stars Quentin Chisholm, Ari Derambakhsh, Arielle Goldman, and Janet Zarish. The play is described as a … Continue reading
Amsterdam in motion
Filmed over three days in August 2024, this wonderful video shows off Amsterdam at its touristic finest. Filmmaker Kirill Neiezhmakov captured 60 sequences and 40 of them made his final cut which you can see below. The film is a … Continue reading
Bookstore Tourism: Your Suggestions Part Deux
I haven’t been to Wooster, Massachusetts, for more than fifty years, so I never visited the Bedlam Book Cafe which only opened in 2018, but if I ever pass that way again, I’ll definitely drop in. Many thanks to TBTP … Continue reading
Ten Words We Should Revive
Sometimes contemporary language fails to provide the nuance required to adequately express our thoughts and opinions. Here are some that I encourage you to sprinkle throughout everyday conversations to confound and entertain.
Inventio Fortunata (unrelated to Harry Potter)
With constant coverage of Greenland in recent news cycles, the infamous Mercator projection has come under fire anew for distorting the real shape of the world’s continents — objects closer to the poles appear larger than they should. That results in … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 