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...cares about Kanye West except other hip-hoppers? I'll bet that 90% of your subscribers have never heard of him. Homer C. Lamborn Redding, California...
...Except the trouble is, as a creator...I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters...
...mascara. It's weird. I've made my bones with vampires, but I've never really associated anything I did with Goth that much, except that I've kind of made fun of them. I don't really see that as much at the conventions and stuff in the fan base. It might be somebody in Goth make-up coming up and saying, oh, this...
...foreigner in what may be the most hyper-controlled society in the world. One typically smart sequence examines the ubiquitous side-by-side portraits of the leader Kim Jong-Il and his dead-but-technically-still-in-charge father Kim Il-Sung. They appear in every single room, ?except in the shitters of course.? He notes how both men have been made to look nearly identical, "same size, same age, same suit. That way nothing ever changes. It's always the same head at the helm." He even notices that the portraits always tilt slightly downward, preventing glare and intensifying...
...These two become the only North Koreans that Delisle is allowed any extended contact with. In spite of this they remain - and I am going to use a loaded word here - inscrutable. Of their personal life we learn nothing. Of their feelings and opinions we learn almost as little, except when Mr. Kyu unwittingly borrows 1984, which Delisle slyly describes as "science fiction." Mr. Kyu later returns the book nervously but says little about it except that he "doesn't like science fiction." The apparently humorless Mr. Sin says little more than party dogma. He becomes emotional only during...