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Fuck-tailed Flycatcher This flycatcher is from the tropics, but many show up annually in North America, some reaching as far as the North Eastern seaboard, even into Canada. It’s impossible to predict exactly where they will appear though, because the dumbshits who show up here were trying to migrate from southern South America to Mexico. What a bunch of fuck-ups.

While on book tour, I visited Salem and got to see the House of Seven Gables! So I am pumped on Hawthorne. How many people have had to read this and suffer essays over the pink ribbons and etc? I used to think that for literature to be REAL it pretty well had to be chock-full of allegory and symbols. But for real, I do love it when my comics get used in a classroom setting, and I often hear from teachers who do that to warm the class up to a topic. That’s great! I should ask for a list of books to cover for this reason. Feel free to email, teachers!

Festival poster for THE LOBSTER (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/UK/Ireland, 2015) See also.

Designer: TBD

1920s–30s Antique Work Clothes Buttons (by ajbtns on eBay)

Coldspot refrigerator (by Wil Perry Photography)

Moleskine Doodles

Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes doodles away in Moleskein notebooks and the results are amazing.  After a number of art and design blogs picked up the story last year, his career took off, and the self-taught 23-year-old found himself creating illustrations for Nike, Mazda, and Ford. 

Chris Rock just said the most insightful thing on race 

“ So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship’s improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, “Oh, he stopped punching her in the face.” It’s not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn’t. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.”