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Having recently discovered this multi-media gem from 2004 at one of my favorite thrift stores for a mere $2, I’m pleased to find Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel/journal-entry style documenting the pubescent sex-capades of her fifteen-year-old character Minnie Goetze and her subsequent loves, losses and intense loneliness so all-consuming that I read Diary of a Teenage...
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No, James Cameron has nothing to do with this one, thank Zeus’s beard. Check out the Emmy Award winning anime on which M. Night Shyamalan is basing his newest labor of arrogance love and you won’t be disappointed by the clever dialogue, excellent pacing and plot, and truly unique storytelling, or you’ll have all...
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Craig Thompson’s Blankets depicts the wonderful confusion of falling in love for the first time.  Awkward and romantic, his writing and artwork both enchant.
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Marten Reed from Questionable Content Shares Some Sad Songs (2009.09)
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Thankfully, not all things are filtered. A moment to praise the uncouth, unfiltered trap (not you, tough_love, but this should be reminiscent for you as well)… Anyone else have this type of experience before?
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I made my very first comic strip!  (Click to enlarge.) You can make your own or send mine to the world.
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I’d like to get you, the reader, more involved in this. Following Harrumph’s lead, we here at nonpretentious would like you take part in this column. Tell us your answer to these existential questions taken from Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. How would you want your lover to answer? Do you find...
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Late on this bandwagon? Yes. Who cares!! what’s your favorite TED talk?
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Let me guess…you’re not watching The Life and Times of Tim on HBO. And, why not?  Variety calls it charming.  Do you not have time in between your repeated viewings of Arrested Development Season 3, The Office Season 2, Family Guy Season 4, Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 5, or Simpsons Season 7 (from 1995!)?  ...
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