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Tom the Dancing Bug Four years of Trumpist surrealism and horror in one Book: Into the Trumpverse, comics by Ruben Bolling Boing Boing

writing Raymond Chandler is the once and future king of opening paragraphs Seamus Bellamy

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podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

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Comic Books Talking Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics with Visionary Comic Book Creator Tom Scioli Jeffery Klaehn

books The rise in home videoconferencing lets us browse more people's bookshelves David Pescovitz

avant garde Avant-garde drummer Art Tripp talks about working with Zappa, Beefheart, John Cage, and others Gareth Branwyn

makers Revisiting Make:'s weekly Math Monday column Gareth Branwyn

Comics Friday: the new digital-first, pay-what-you-want Lovecraftian YA detective comic from Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente Thom Dunn

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News If anything worthwhile ever came out of a FOX affiliate… Jason Weisberger

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Spoken Word with Electronics Spoken Word with Electronics: "Paul Krassner Recalls the Day JFK Died" and "Earth, Take Four" Ethan Persoff

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Book JOHN WILCOCK: A Smoke Bomb at The Anarchist Cookbook Press Conference Ethan Persoff

death Your "Morbid Minute;" more on dead babies wearing other babies' skulls as hats Gareth Branwyn

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