Ben Towle

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Crackhouse Wrap-up pt. 1

The “big dig” project here at the Crackhouse is just about wrapped up and we’re moving back into the downstairs of the place now. Needless to say this is all occuring four months after the project started, not four weeks as originally estimated. Anyway, here’re a few before/during/after pics of the living room, the new …

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Tokyopop’s Web Exclusives

Journalista » Blog Archive » Aug. 31, 2006: An act of sheer desperation The blogosphere is alive with the sound of bitching… that is, bitching back and forth about Tokyopop‘s recent announcement that it is making some of its titles available only via their online store.  That means that they’ll be cutting out the usual …

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Seth’s Nostalgia for the 20s and 30s

The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History I’ve been slowly making my way through this nice archive of audio and video interview and feature clips of Canadian cartoonists.  I listened most recently to the one about “Seth,” a cartoonist who really wears his obsession with the 1920s and 30s on his sleeve.  The voiceover referred …

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Ed Bumgardner Must Get Stoned

Dylan concert hits bad notes First off, some clarification: Ed Bumgardner is a longtime Winston-Salem music critic, who’s currently writing for the Winston-Salem Journal’s weekly free arts and entertainment supplement, Relish. By “stoned” in the title of this post, I don’t mean stoned as in “under the effects of marijuana,” but rather stoned as in …

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Coolest Mini-golf Ever

The Somerville Open Mini-Golf 2006