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2023

New Arrivals Jan 2023
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Articles Ttrpg Books Horror Art Workbooks
I try to post cool new arrivals from Kickstarters and pre-orders when they arrive, usually to my Mastodon account,1 but with the business at work and with the podcast it slipped past me.

2019

Warren Ellis on making mistakes
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Quotes Art
Warren Ellis’ commencement speech to University of Essex at Southend is a delight to read. I particularly loved this bit. Making mistakes happens when you’re trying something new. It’s how you know you’re bending the envelope.

2015

Sam Sykes: In The Tombs of Poets
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Articles Writing Art Movies
Sam Sykes has published a reflection on the life of Shin Sang-Ok, and on an artist’s need to create. The idiot ninja action film I watched as a kid was the last legs of a man who was being denied his needs for a final time.

2007

A List Apart: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing
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Articles Art Culture Web Writing
This is a fantastic article, that along with its companion piece, it covers how the influence of business on the web has been reduced from writing to "zombified copywriting." The author indicates that this is because so many people writing for the web are not writers, but rather engineers, secretaries and designers.