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[11 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 78 views]
Upside-Down Christmas Trees

I remember upside down Christmas trees appearing a few years back. No, they didn’t appear in my head after too many swigs of ‘nog–they could be found in several stores across the country and in the homes of trendier families.
My first thought was that it was some kind modern hippie …

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[9 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 788 views]
The Museum of Bad Art

Most artists have raging egos, and would like nothing better than to have their best works praised to the heavens. But horrible art has its place too, and it deserves a little attention now and then…
Enter the Museum of Bad Art, a collection of works so bad that they’re good. …

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[1 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 335 views]
Offbeat Silhouette Humor

When we look at a picture or painting, it seems our eyes tend to zoom in on the people in the foreground.
How interesting that in Wilhelm Staehle’s art the same thing happens even thought the subjects are missing!
Each picture is in a old washed out style, often with Victorian elements …

Fiction »

[30 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 523 views]
Review: Phillip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass

Check your religious baggage at the door…
The popularity of Phillip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials has increased lately because of the release of a movie based on Book I, and as a result of the explosion in mainstream atheist literature (Dawkins, Hitches, Harris, etc.)
The plot of Book III: The Amber …

Fiction »

[29 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 104 views]
The Cure for Writer’s Block

Which author has not suffered the curse of writer’s block?
Never fear, for Seventh Sanctum has a number of random generators which can be used to combat this dastardly disease. Much like a game of mad libs, the site creates unexpected elements: from characters and setting to plot ideas.
For example, …