Continuing our Stephen Elliott-led exploration of the political side of the web, here are some unconventional links for your reading pleasure.
Artist Laurenn McCubbin has a sharp-looking site that combines all sorts of cool media with a dash of politics. McCubbin has built a web community after working with some of the best comic book and literary writers in the world.
Start with this quote from her site, and see where the links take you. Good places, I promise: "The Sexy Chix Anthology from Dark Horse hits the streets today -you can get it off their site, from Amazon, or from your friendly local retailer. I have a story in there with Joyce Carol Oates, so snap it up, yo. Also available is Stumbling and Raging, the political anthology in which I have a comic that I did with Stephen Elliot. I did the cover for this one too."
The Jesus' General blog is literary in a way you wouldn't expect, writing in a genre you probably didn't know existed--the faux straight man conservative blog satire. These guys offer immensely popular commentary that exposes the sillier side of punditry.
Check out this tongue-and-cheek post about attending a reading by some liberal bloggers: "[We] left the Alabama side of Washington State early yesterday morning to visit our sinful capitol city. Our objective: to infiltrate Kos and Jerome's event at Orca Books and beat up some elderly ladies.
Finally, Click here for more Euchre Action. It turns out that "The Euchre Report" is part of a sprawling McSweeneys-published, Midwestern-influenced version of the Chinese Gangster Story.
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Visual by www.PDImages.com For your weekend reading pleasure, I have one last set of Stephen Elliott-approved links to politcally-minded writers on the Internet. This time, I picked the funniest writers. Don't poke your eye out...Joshuah Bearman ... [Read More]
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