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However much money they saved by not printing the footnotes that they reference in the text, it wasn’t enough. This book is not for smart people, but might be for dumb people that want to feel smart. But it won’t work. Even dumb people will know this book is dumb. Don’t buy this book. Just keep walking and find another one. Continue reading Bad Books: The Age-Proof Brain, by Marc…

Even though its vessel is usually cylindrical, the beverage has a point – and millions of people seem to be missing it. Continue reading Untitled

A forgotten gem about life in Montreal’s Jewish ghetto during the Second World War. Continue reading Untitled

Anything can be a truck… Continue reading Untitled

An amazing 500+ pages, with a typo at the end Continue reading Untitled

This provocative and well-written volume promises to liven up your book club Continue reading Untitled

This Office Supplies Store in Mexico seemed disproportionately concerned with theft Continue reading Untitled

What’s the difference between darning and sewing? As near as I can tell, darning is more like weaving and sewing is, um, sewing. I’ve spent most of my life stitching tears and sewing patches over holes, and was only vaguely aware of ‘darning.’ But one day my Mom darned one of my socks, and it was apparent that this technique is far more appropriate for holes created by wear. Like a lot of the…

A long time ago I was working with a kid who had become very enthusiastic about the idea of a comic strip about flying a banana cream pie. I have no recollection of how this came about, but he continued to refer to it weeks after we’d first talked about it, which gave me the impression that it was important to him. He moved to Japan before I had a chance to draw them, but I had his teacher…