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  • The Horrors of Internet Dating, Volume 6

    I got this message a while ago: So mysterious! Is “garte” even better than great? What exactly does “hi sexie tattoosit” mean? Nothing is more alluring than mystery, so I clicked to see her profile. RELEASE THE CRAKING. First we get what she doesn’t want. Fair enough. A few spelling problems there, but I don’t…

  • Book Review: Some Girls Are, by Courtney Summers

    I’ve been a huge Courtney Summers fan for about a year. I don’t mean a fan of her books, but of Courtney Summers herself. As soon as I heard her interview on I Should be Writing, with her brutal honesty about the struggle between writing and internet distractions, plus her palpable passion for zombies, I…

  • Fonts Don’t Matter

    If you’re a graphic designer, a typographer, or an amateur font enthusiast, this might piss you off. That’s okay. Channel that anger towards flawless kerning. I’ve seen people vomit because the Papyrus font was used for subtitles in Avatar, or get a boner every time a poster is in Helvetica. These people, they know they’re…