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artists Flea Market Follies: Hunting for Kitsch with Mitch O'Connell Lee Keeler

happy mutants My Life on the Road: Farewell to the Chill Séamus Bellamy

Herschel Walker NYT: "Herschel Walker, Critic of Absentee Fathers, Has a Second Son He Doesn't See" Mark Frauenfelder

racism 'Complete sh*tshow': Drive-thru Dickens fair deemed a disaster Rusty Blazenhoff

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Comic Books Batman No. 1 sells for $2.22 million Mark Frauenfelder

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher's lamp Gina Loukareas

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

batman I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

gimp Arrests made in Somerset gimp mystery Rob Beschizza

eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow

tabloids Brad Pitt's brush with death, Julia Roberts quitting Hollywood, and Christmas kittens, in this week's dubious ad-packed tabloids Peter Sheridan

Weird Police nab gentleman who was caught on camera licking doorbell David Pescovitz

Science In the future we might paint our homes with dead Christmas trees Séamus Bellamy

biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery