antichrist television blues.

“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves at a brisk clip. A historical event, though soon forgotten, sparkles the morning after with the dew of novelty. No longer a backdrop, it is now the adventure itself, an adventure enacted before the backdrop of the commonly accepted banality of private life.Since we can no longer assume any single historical event, no matter how recent, to be common knowledge, I must treat events dating back only a few years as if they were a thousand years old.” -From “Lost Letters,” chapter 5, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera Like a sweaty arm around your neck on a hot summer day, all this growth is getting to be a lot stifling year after year. —– Been enjoying the recent Penny Arcade podcasts. The strips are hilarious and easily digestible if you ha ...