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Neil Gaiman’s Free Short Stories and New Year’s Wishes | Open Culture

Neil Gaiman is one of the handful of writers who has made comics respectable over the past several decades. He has written some classic children’s stories , plus a novel that will be adapted by HBO . A great deal of his output, though, has been in the form of short stories, and we have pulled together some free copies for you today.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: What Your Favorite ’80s Band Says About You.

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The Manifesto of Self-Revocation

Greetings, children. Within these pages you will, through the rigours of mouse-clicking faith, find that which you seek.

At 2:11 p.m., as two ambulances waited with motors running, 10 horses burst from the starting gate at Ruidoso Downs Race Track 6,900 feet up in New Mexico’s Sacramento Mountains. Nineteen seconds later, under a brilliant blue sky, a national champion jockey named Jacky Martin lay sprawled in the furrowed dirt just past the finish line, paralyzed, his neck broken in three places.

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Comic Crits

I know liking Star Trek is often cited as an indication of immaturity, but when I was a sensitive ten-year-old and watched it for the first time, an episode called, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", it seemed not only adult, but funny, moving, exciting, and smart in equal measure. I still think that.

Rands In Repose: Managing Nerds

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Ten years ago, the world was collectively freaked out by the Y2K bug .

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror": the notion that some concepts, entities or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds, and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the horror genre and… (more)