Author: Alex Irvine
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Media Pick Over Detroit’s Bones, Again
These are the two most interesting shots, I think, from a Time photoessay called “Detroit’s Beautiful, Horrible Decline.” Never have an American city’s misfortunes been so ghoulishly chronicled by the mass media. Meanwhile, the people who actually live there are trying to do all kinds of interesting things, like build a long-awaited regional transit network.…
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SciFi to be Syfy: Who You Calling Human?
Rebranding contortions are often funny. This one especially because it’s such a bald-faced attempt to run away from a label that very few people really care about…and because Dave Howe took a not-so-subtle backhanded swipe at the ScFi channel’s (presumed) current audience. You really have to read the whole thing to get the flavor, but…
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Me on ComiXology
Here’s me talking about various comic- and teaching-relating things on the most recent It Came Out on Wednesday podcast, recorded at NYCC this year.
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Walt Dangerfield Speaks, Day 20
On the disappointment of the future becoming the present. Read more…
Crooked House Fictions 