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Kris Williams has the best job in the world. As co-lead investigator with Ghost Hunters International, she gets to travel the world, stay up all night, and hunt ghosts. Pretty much everything we thought would be awesome as kids. Also, waffles.
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Once I realized that zombie was shearing his own face off, I lost it. That was one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen on television in recent memory. Also, don’t forget T-Dog, y’all.
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Mary Margaret got a taste of the sexist rage toward adulterous women in this ep. David is the one who cheated and broke marriage vows, yet she’s the one getting accosted at work, getting snubbed by Old Granny from the diner, and getting her car tagged.
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This doc looks at how representations of powerful women reflect society’s anxiety about women’s rights. Which would explain the dearth of Ellen Ripleys and Buffies right now. For god’s sake, we’ve gone back to fighting for access to birth control pills.
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We met Michael Bracco at the 2010 ArtStar Craft Bazaar in Philly, where he had a booth set up for his imprint, Spaghetti Kiss. Initially, I was taken in by his t-shirts, which were printed with things like skull-octopi, and robotic unicorns fighting narwhals. But, he had comics, too, and they are just as beautiful and imaginative.
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Whatever happened to Southside Nefertiti? I loved Southside Nefertiti, who is a single mom and a superhero, and not in a condescending, ladymag marketing kind of way. Nefertiti does it in a way that smacks of hard reality.
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“An interesting thing that’s happened in the last five years is the surge of New Media; the comics business isn’t a comics business, anymore. It’s an incubator for Big Media.”
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I’ve been researching the styling and construction of kilts for the past few days and decided I should never attend the Highland Games. I’d be arrested for lewd behavior in minutes because men in kilts are hot.
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I’m still not getting totally on board the Valentine’s Day commercial love train. However, I will use it as an excuse to trot out my Curio Cabinet of TV Boyfriends (& Traveling Freak Show*) for a good old fashioned ogling.
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You just shot a barn load of zombies. You’re drowning your sorrows in liquor. Seems like things can’t get any worse. Then, two Philadelphians walk into your apocalypse bar.
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Since Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, Show gave us all the requisite VD stuff: disappointed women, clueless men, girls’ night out, roses. Show, though, manages to be subversive about it, questioning the expectations of love and EGADS!!!! putting forth the idea that maintaining love takes work.
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It’s funny to me (funny like “this sausage smells funny”, not funny like Community) that there’s outrage over imposing our current standards of beauty on classic art, but not over imposing them on real women who exist in our real world.
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With self-confidence, you too can win the heart of a surly space yokel and live on a barren planet, playing solitaire and nagging him about washing pans.
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One day, I hope to be able to hand this book to a kid who’s approaching voting age and say: “This is what happens when you cast your vote based on other people’s sex lives.”
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These are my top ten Valentine’s Day cards you can give while maintaining your self-respect and general contempt for this dumb ass holiday.
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PRG has seen us through a lot of changes and challenges in the past five years. Now, there’s another big one coming up (no, it’s not a baby, so stop asking).
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As unlikely as Newtie’s Moon colony suggestion was, I couldn’t help but nod my head and growl, “Yeah! What happened to the America that can?”
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I keep trying to use Pink Raygun’s anniversary as an excuse to buy stuff for myself. But, it’s you who really deserve the anniversary gifts. After all, you’ve been putting up with us for all these years.
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