My friend Jane Washburn makes some of the most fantastic creatures in this world or any other. She's just finished work on her latest creation, the Child Empress of Mars (who is based on a Dora Goss story and will be donated to the Interstitial Arts Foundation's upcoming auction). Look at this alien beauty:


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I stopped reading the His Dark Materials series after the second book -- not out of pique or anything; I started out loving it, and then after a while just sort of forgot to care what happened next -- so I haven't been paying much attention to all the hype around the upcoming movie. However, since my f-list is full of people playing the "meet your ( Read more... )

Adorable Ira Glass of "This American Life" talks about learning to tell stories (or really, to make anything):

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"It takes a while. It's normal to take a while, and you just have to fight your way through that. You will be fierce, you will be a warrior, and you will make things that aren't as good as you know in your heart you want them to be."

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