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Aria the O & Aria the Natty
Without knowing the backstory you would never guess Aria the Original and its follow up series Aria the Natural are actually set in the 24th century on Mars, because it has been terraformed to look...
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Adventure! Danger! Intrigue!: Today…in Readers’ Advisory
Fiction: Bookhunter by Jason Shiga In the city that boasts its own comic book month, Portland’s annual Stumptown Comics Fest offers an array of comics books, graphic novels, and art books made by...
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Margot Ruth Kidder: Queen of the Margotnauts
In 2008, I saw the movie Black Christmas for the first time and was reacquainted with a lady named Margot Kidder. In Black Christmas she played Barb Coard, the foul-mouthed, hard-drinking sorority gal...
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Work It Out: A comic about working out
Pumping iron puts me in a contemplative mood. While running, yogar-ing, or doing some intense pec work I often find myself getting…ideas. Ideas for the future, for recipes, for work, and even for...
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Gorillas and Graves – Today…in Readers’ Advisory
Nonfiction: Woman in the Mists by Farley Mowat In 1984, after finishing Gorillas in the Mist, her definitive book on the mountain gorillas of Africa, primatologist Dian Fossey returned to Rwanda to...
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Interlibrary Lush checks out…sort of.
Please join us Thursday, September 24 @ 7p at Vendetta, a lovely bar frequented by librarians and…mayoral incumbents? Yeah, I’ve seen Mr. Adams there once or twice. We mostly just ignored each other.
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In the year 2009 I… 1.) Hosted many Interlibrary Lushes, then…didn’t. One of the biggest changes was the passing of the Interlibrary Lush torch. I began Interlibrary Lush, the monthly meetup for...
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Terrible twos: Happy B-day Retro-b-lore
And for your very special day I gift unto thee an update after an almost six month hiatus. Prison for Bitches – a Lady Gaga fanzine. Prison for Bitches is a collaborative piece by the dudes from Haus...
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Comic books as foreign language learning aids
Italian 203 has been pretty difficult so far. I have had to spend more time studying and memorizing vocab and grammatical rules, which means I have had less time to do class projects. I did, however,...
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Bigger, broader
I’ve broadened the collecting scope for this site in hopes that I may update it more. So instead of this being a place for archive-ey, library-ey, comic book-ey things it will be a place for whatever I...
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