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Remember The Selby? It's that great site I plugged a while back consisting of photos (and drawings, and little Q&As, of late) of the homes of creative and interesting people. Pierre Hermé has been profiled recently! Hermé is a pastry chef, known mostly (at least by slavish food-blog followers like myself) for delicious macarons. I'm a macaron fan, when I can find them, as you can see here or here. If you've never had one (and you're not allergic to almonds or anything) you should try them! yes yes
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Exciting news: Kate Beaton has a book!
Regular news post: This is half so I can remember this, myself. But this quote is such a weird sideways way of being optimistic about love. It's like atheism from Romance capital R. It struck me.
From Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick:
I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as "common decency." I treated somebody well for a little while, or maybe even for a tremendously long time, and that person treated me well in turn. Love need not have had anything to do with it.
Also: I cannot distinguish between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs.
When a child, and not watching comedians on film or listening to comedians on the radio, I used to spend a lot of time rolling around on rugs with uncritically affectionate dogs we had.
And I still do a lot of that. The dogs become tired and confused and embarrassed long before I do. I could go on forever.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please--a little less love, and a little more common decency."
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The Overqualified book is now shipping! - If you have some A Softer World-inspired work, upload it to flickr and tag it "aswfanart". Take a look at what other people have made here. - We also have an RSS FEED, or an LJ FEED, if you'd like. And you can now read the feed on tumblr
Comics we like: BM C&G chris! DC! DrMN HARK! JEFF! KCG PFSC QC S&F SMBC! WM XKCD
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