I'm putting together the syllabus for a writing course I'll be teaching next quarter on "The Possible Futures of America." One text I am certain I'll be using is Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's comic book (graphic novel, if you fancy the proper nomenclature) Y: The Last Man. I read the first trade paperback last night in one sitting. It's fantastic. Here's the premise:

"When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women."

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Dutch artist Anya Janssen:

Sham Rage 5
(1999)

Double Vision
(2006)

Double Helix
(2002)

Sham Rage 3
(1999)

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"Everything now is about swagger, there’s not art to swagger. Swag ain’t one of my words. Swag vs. art? Stick to the art."

-- Weiss interviews Raekwon the Chef.

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I laughed heartily at portions of Sam Pink's (often times brutal) advice column in the literary journal Dogzplot.

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Europa Film Treasures is an amazing online archive of the earliest motion pictures. You can watch loads of interesting things for free.

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Žižek on Republicans and John Carpenter’s They Live

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Thanks to Open Culture:

"Taken from a French television program, this vintage clip features Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) reading from Lolita and revealing his list of the most important novels of the 20th century, among other things. Nabokov speaks in English here. So don’t let the initial French throw you off."