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Chess Match (17)
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Atomic Chess is won by causing the explosion of the opposing king.
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Chess Match (12)
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Precisely how much more brightly than a normal sparkle does a divine sparkle shine?
Read This PostThe Book is a Weapon (16)
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Welcome to the McLuhan Dome! Tonight: “hot” print vs. “cool” comic book.
Read This PostThe Book is a Weapon (15)
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When did murder in a bookshop or library become a middlebrow meme? Example: After all, although some bookshops and libraries may be middlebrow, there’s nothing inherently middlebrow about these institutions. It’s their sentimentalization by “booklovers” […]
Read This PostChess Match (9)
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Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess MIRANDA: Sweet lord, you play me false. FERDINAND: No, my dearest love, I would not for the world. MIRANDA: Yes, for a score of kingdoms you […]
Read This PostPulp Hilobrow (2)
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*** An occasional series, which follows up on themes explored in the ten-part HiLobrow Cover Art series.
Read This PostChess Match (8)
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My little love, do you remember, Ere we were grown so sadly wise, Those evenings in the bleak December, Curtain’d warm from the snowy weather, When you and I play’d chess together, Checkmated by each […]
Read This PostBest of Brainiac (1)
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In the latest issue of Print Magazine, the graphic designer and design critic Steven Heller introduces perhaps the most ineradicable of all design viruses: the cutoff-torso-spread-leg framing device known as the “A-Frame.” Digging into the […]
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