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Who am I? And why are you here?





As the 20th century's greatest philosopher, Lionel Richie, so aptly put it: say you, say me, say it together, naturally.


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Mr. Commonhate



Or How I Learned to Stop Thinking and Love the Algorithm





Political humor is more essential than ever.


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Nevermore



It's beyond time to tell this story.





"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream


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Spirito



Made-up heroes are great, but we also have real ones.





Yolanda Spirito was a daredevil pilot—in 1930.


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The Default State



We can convince ourselves of everything.





"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him."
​~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead


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The Centenarian



If that title made you think of an elderly person, this idea isn't for you.





A mystical, super powered being who reincarnates every 100 years. (Oh, c'mon—like Cats was a good idea.)


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GODLESS



Do we really care about our heroes?





We treat so many of our heroes like crap. But what if we really needed them?


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The Horror Remake of Silkwood



Is Horror becoming the only way to reach people?





GET OUT, US, ANTEBELLUM, and THEM use horror and magic realism to make us *feel* the terror of racism. Maybe it's time for environmentalism to do the same.


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A Masterpiece That Flopped



Failure can be beautiful, failure can be funny.





When Rossini's The Barber of Seville premiered in 1816, it was a big, stinky, beautiful flop. Maybe your version of this Rossini biopic will be too!


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Bait



Is it ok just because it's not real?





Maybe the measure of a means to an end is in how much it changes us.


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Unsung



TAXI DRIVER for the 21st century.





The tormented, unsung artist meets the gig economy.


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