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ART Bernie Kaminski’s Paper Mâché Bernie Kaminski’s Paper mâché junk drawer filled with paper mâché pens, pencils, batteries, receipts, and other junk.…
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Detail from Tono Monogatari by Shigeru Mizuki Welcome to another issue of The Magnet! This one is a bit later than usual, but I had a writing assignmen…
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UNTRANSLATED Aesop’s Fables: The Satyr and the SwordDetail from Wenceslaus Hollar’s illustration for “The Satyr and the Sword,” from John Ogilby’s Aeso…
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P.J. Soles (left) and Dey Young (right) in Rock and Roll High School (1979) The two most memorable 1979 movies about teenagers are Over the Edge and Ro…
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ARTIFICIAL LIFE The Norn TorturerA screengrab from the defunct Tortured Norns website (via Archive.org) Last week I wrote about Vilmonic, an artificial…
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Squeezing The Beatles, We love darts, and What I’m up to
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Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Released in 2019, it’s the creation of Mark Stramaglia, who single-ha…
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The first Michael Gruber novel I read was The Forgery of Venus, a literary thriller about a questionably insane artist who gets involved in the undergr…
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Why do three boxes feel lighter than one?
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How to be indistractable, anime to watch, and a quote about civilization
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Also: curing writer's block, summaries of nonfiction books, and more
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"YOU BLASTED A NEW LUNAR CRATER 126.23 FT. DEEP"
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