February 2010
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The most expensive NES Nintendo games →
I only collect games that were released in the US commercially, so the Nintendo World Championship and Campus Challenge carts and Punch-Out!! Special Edition fall out of that category. Ditto Devil World and Mr. Gimmick which were only released in Europe and Japan.
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This American Life: Ep. 400 - Stories Pitched By... →
This American Life celebrates its 400th episode by taking all the bad ideas for stories that their families have suggested to them over the years and try and make them interesting and exciting. Topics include Ira losing a suit on the train, funny funerals, the unofficial Eerie Canal theme song!
Living Creatively: Explore the Arts at Lesley →
Because my school thinks a good way to get people interested in its programs is to have me talk about comic books, I’m doing a presentation on Saturday at our Living Creatively event called The Ninth Art: Storytelling in Graphic Novels and Comic Books and How They Pertain to Fiction Writing. My presentation is at 3:50 and it’s open to the public. I promise not to mention the Nite Owl...
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The Arcade Fire - This Must Be the Place (Naive...
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“Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks a...”
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs, pg. 5
Idea for a blog, Pts. 2 & 3
Wikipedia entries that are way too long in proportion to subject’s relevance. Idea for title: Get a Life, Superfans
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“Archbuilders describe English as a language of enchanting limitations. The...”
– Jonathan Lethem, Girl in Landscape, pg. 37
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Polaroids of brunch →
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inkiworld asked: Hey Justin!!
I love your polaroids! :)
It seems your scans have a lot of texture of the polaroid it self. If I scan mine, the texture of the white border (witch I love) seems to fade away.. Do you edit them in photoshop? or is it just my scanner? :) Hope you can help! Thanks!
Greetings, Alissa
I love your polaroids! :)
It seems your scans have a lot of texture of the polaroid it self. If I scan mine, the texture of the white border (witch I love) seems to fade away.. Do you edit them in photoshop? or is it just my scanner? :) Hope you can help! Thanks!
Greetings, Alissa
My story of a story of a run in with J.D. Salinger
I’d meant to post this last week after his passing but I kept procrastinating until it was out of the news cycle and virtually off topic again. Anyway. When I was in college I briefly dated a girl whose mom met J.D. Salinger. Being a newly-minted English major, this excited me to no end. (At the time, I felt like I had practically met him myself.) She told me that when she was eighteen she...
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