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  • The Honors and Duties of Knighthood at Medieval Times

    Blood sport has been an important part of cultures across the globe for centuries. As long as people have been gathering to watch spectacles, those spectacles have included violent displays that tickle the innate human desire to watch things get totally killed to death. There’s not a lot of room for spectator sports that require human sacrifice in civilized society, but the jousters at Medieval Times aim to satisfy that bloodlust. Full story

    2013 Jan 3 Justin Amirkhani Stuff
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  • The Room All to Itself

    This is one of James Purdy’s last unpublished manuscripts. Written in 1978, the short play is every bit as uncompromising and brutal as his fiction. Full story

    2012 Jul 2 James Purdy Stuff
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  • Vice Comics

    By Dash Shaw

    The Haunted High School. Full story

    2009 Dec 1 Dash Shaw Comics
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