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...they could do whatever they wanted...I always wished I could have one of those. Tom E. Rodger ‘08 Well, I was always into “X-Men,” ’cause we’d always play it on the school playground. I would always be Wolverine, for the obvious reason that he was really tough and awesome and had big claws. I also liked...“Rocko’s Modern Life” and “Ahhh! Real Monsters.” Rocko was my closest connection...
...gets older in the book, The Quitter returns to one of the main themes of all Pekar's work: the redemptive power of art. During high school he discovers both a passion for jazz and a capacity for critical analysis. So, while toiling away at such unchallenging jobs as playground supervisor, beer inspector and file clerk, Pekar finds his self respect through writing about jazz for such publications as The Jazz Review and Downbeat. Later, of course, he also begins working in comix, a move he goes into briefly at the end. By the time it concludes, The Quitter will...
...play. Yet their presence at the water's edge threatens the natural barriers that should be shielding them. In Louisiana, the Mississippi River has been lashed into tenuous submission, its absorbent delta constricted and carved into channels for oil pipelines and navigation routes. In Alabama and Mississippi, the playground of the Gulf Coast has been developed to the edge of the open water, rebuilt bigger and more audaciously after each storm that wipes...
...higher ground. Most buildings remain standing, though almost all are missing more or less of their shingled roofs. Road signs are bent or twisted; many billboards are shredded; the sign of the local McDonald's on Ryan Street is ripped off its frame, and the once-indoor Ronald McDonald playground is now exposed to the elements. Corrugated metal roofs have fared particularly poorly and many are now smeared across nearby fences, other storefronts or just spread out whole or in pieces on the ground...
...Held, who worked on Greek Garden for two years, bigness 'gives me the scale that I'm looking for, the presence that I want. I'm not trying to make an equation that size equals quality, but to me bigness just means I've got a bigger playground, both in the real and the metaphysical sense...