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Breaking News: Mylo Xyloto is going to be a comic
WHAT. Coldplay just announced that “early next year the [story of dystopian love-story concept album Mylo Xyloto] is going to come out as a 6-part comic.” This brings together two of my favorite things: Coldplay (especially Mylo Xyloto, which I’ve thought WAY too much about) and comics. This is a big deal for yours truly.…
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Prepare To Be Amazed
In the too-rarely-seen Disney movie Meet the Robinsons, the aptly-named Bowler Hat Guy greets a captive audience with these breathless words: “Prepare to be AMAZED!” There’s wisdom in there. We, as a culture, aren’t amazed often enough. We’re frequently amused, occasionally impressed, and rarely speechless. Maybe part of it is that we don’t “prepare” to…
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This Now
Sometimes I think about the fact that, subjectively, there really isn’t a “past” or “future.” I know things have happened, or will happen, but for us, as humans, we only exist and can make decisions in this one split, split, triple-split second. For one needle-width instant, we have free will — the past is locked…