Just in time for Halloween, we present an interview with someone who knows a lot more about costumes and costuming than most: a real life cosplayer.
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Just in time for Halloween, we present an interview with someone who knows a lot more about costumes and costuming than most: a real life cosplayer.
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Ed Piskor's recently finished the online version of his 400+ page graphic novel, Wizzywig, which will soon be given the collected treatment by Top Shelf. Wizzywig is the story of Kevin Phenicle, aka "Boingthump," a phone phreaker/hacker during the early days of high-tech computing who is sort of a pastiche of several real-life individuals.
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A review of Don Julio 70, created in honor of the 70th anniversary of the year that Don Julio González himself began making tequila. It's presented as something of a "best of both worlds" tequila, merging characteristics of blanco and anejo all in one through a special filtering.
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Drive, starring the currently ubiquitous Ryan Gosling, is in part an homage to Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978) and quite an earnest endeavor: a post-modernist situation lacking most of the tropes and characteristics of the post-modern film.
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Few places can match the pure grandeur of Yosemite National Park. On Oct. 1, 1890, the U.S. Congress reserved more than 1,000 square miles of "forest lands" in the Eastern/Central part of California. With that action, Yosemite became a national park.
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Lord almighty, I feel my temperature rising . . .
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My favorite travel mug. Thanks, Contigo.
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"I love my Campbell's, coffee's good food." No, wait. that don't work.
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Happy to Serve You mug -- a more permanent version of the disposable coffee cup that New York made famous.
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Two Scrabble Mugs = double the score? (A mere 12 if it's M-U-G, but C-O-F-F-E-E would garner something nice, probably a double letter in there somewhere too.)
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