If you are setting a story in the past it can often be hard to get everything from the little things to the big picture right, especially if it's a period you haven't lived through yourself. Even then, your memory can play tricks on you.

It doesn't ...

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Watching, reading, and listening to things a second, third or even a million times can offer you a whole new experience. Why do we pick up the same thing to enjoy again? It could be ...

August and Cora don't believe their uncle is dead. They go to visit the cemetery, but August takes a tumble and ends up in quite a bit of trouble, resulting a little stay at the local police station. Meanwhile Cora is nowhere to be seen. But was this all ...

Photo: “A Page of the Tuesday Funnies Used to Wrap a Mason Jar at the Thrift Store”. The San Diego Union-Tribune. (February 2025)

Gleaning for vintage supplies at the local thrift store, I made out with an assortment of cream coloured typewriter papers weathered by age from card stock cotton ...

Photo: “More Than A Psychological Test”. Ink on White Paper, found objects, rubber roller, ink blotter. Created by kawaiidaigakusei. Westwood, Los Angeles, California. (February 2025)

Last Saturday afternoon was spent at an Art Lab in a museum in Los Angeles, California, that was open to participants of all ages.

The ...

Diamond Comic Distributors has gone bankrupt. As someone who once worked in a comic book shop, back in the 80s and 90s, it was something of a shock. I came over all nostalgic for their blue logo. I still have a number of cardboard boxes crammed with comics that have ...

Your shadow growing to blacken the sky
Unfilling the vaccum we rotate inside
Your shadow glowing to blacken the sky
Sealed by the heavenly ocean we´ve seen to forget
Your shadow flowing to blacken the sky
In your reflecton I´ll always reside
Your shadow throwing to blacken the ...

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Dragons are cool, aren't they? That's our subject for today, specifically the giant, monstrous beasties of myth, fantasy, and legend. They can be evil, they can be clever, they can be animalistic and wild, they ...

Photo: “Android Blues: Complete, Graphic Novel (Test Prints)”. Android Blues created by Stahlberg. (September 2024)

Here is a chance to be a proud owner of the GORGEOUS, tangible first edition Android Blues graphic novel (450 Pages). Sign-up on the Pre-Launch Kickstarter to reserve a copy. The first TWO HUNDRED book ...

Photo: “SOSRadio Issue 8: A Solitary Waltz”. SOSRadio by sosradio. (September 2024)

SOSRadio, the creator, is offering a half-page advertisement slot to be printed in a physical copy of SOSRadio Issue 8: A Solitary Waltz in exchange for a recreation of the Issue 8 Cover of the comic book. There ...