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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Gradeshnitsa tablets

Sunday, January 25, 2009

This is one of those weird things I like: nationalism and it’s influence on historical imagination. Specifically how in the Balkans it’s impossible to talk about linguistics without talking about nationalism. Romanians claim their language has an ancient substrate from Dacian, Greeks get all pissy about the Macedonians calling themselves Macedonians, and the Macedonians get [...]

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Let Me Share With You The Painful Experiment That Was My Webcomic

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

I don’t know how to draw, so I made some squiggly lines in MS Paint. I feel like I learned something about the form of the comic strip. Frankly I should have done these in three panels, but every comic I’ve ever read and liked has been a four panel comic. It seems to mess [...]

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Scientology Explained

Monday, January 19, 2009

The Church of Scientology is one of the great inventions of the Twentieth Century. It is the creation of a science fiction writer who was not only a total crank, but who almost alone of his contemporaries, felt the strength of his vision so keenly that he would bring the future to the present. The [...]

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