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I have a problem. Every time I go to buy a fun, distracting book, I come home with a handful of depressing, literarti treatises on the misery of life. It’s not my fault. It’s just my natural persuasion; on my bookshelf As I Lay Dying sits next to Rape: A Love Story. When it comes to holiday Read more

I live for stories. This doesn’t make me particularly unique – since humans stumbled into language, we have always used stories to describe and examine ourselves and the world around us. From myth and religion to the novel and cinema, we have constantly looked for new ways to describe Read more

Quentin Tarantino has always been king of the cinema of excess. He’s not afraid to put something in a movie just because it’s cool, throwing out the rulebooks of history and logic at the same time. Such is the manner of Inglourious Basterds, his latest film deemed an ‘inglorious, Read more

Due to a general slackness on my part, weird news weekly has a bumper issue this week, to make up for the lack of action this past month. Sorry! Sam Raimi is going to direct World of Warcraft: The movie. READ MORE If it couldn’t get any weirder, Michael Jackson’s hair will be turned into 10 Read more

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the Read more

Forget magical spells, secret passages and mysterious prophecies. Love stinks, even for wizards who have survived Voldemort. That’s the moral of the newly released Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. [caption id="attachment_257" align="alignleft" width="235" caption="Emotions run high in Read more

I didn’t read this book. I listened to it. All 29+ hours of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle! It took me nearly four and a half months to get through it all, partly due to an ipod malfunction and partly due to the book’s occasional inability to hold onto the reader/listener. Read more

The utterly incredible fallen princesses photographic series. Think Beauty with botox. READ MORE Ronald Weasley has swine flu. Have a chocolate frog. Oh yeah, and the new Harry Potter movie was released. READ MORE [caption id="" align="alignright" width="454" caption="Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down Read more

A father and son walk down a broken highway in an America scarred with devastation. The world is burnt, food is scarce and scavengers are plenty, looking for new victims to feed their survival. The highway is called ‘The Road’, and it is the same name given to Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Read more

While you may know Joe Shuster as the illustrator of Superman, you may not know his alter ego as an illustrator of fetish art. A long lost book of his secret illustrations has come to light. READ MORE [caption id="attachment_207" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The secret's out: Joe Read more