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Our heroine Nita (aka Sniffles) is stuck in a wasteland called Baloney-town. Hoping to save enough money to join her performance artist boyfriend in San Francisco and produce her own art, Nita finds herself stuck in an endless cycle of high-paying but degrading "corporate" clown gigs. Disaster and misunderstanding seem to lurk behind every ramshackle brick wall and blade of charred grass. Will she survive? Will she get out with her rubber chicken and her dignity intact? Or will she wind up like Metalocalypse's deranged clown Dr. Rockso, gyrating her spandex-covered hips while shrieking, "I hear it's somebody's birthday! I do cocaaiiine!"
Lucifer Box, the bisexual secret agent narrator of Mark Gatiss' comic-historical novel The Devil In Amber, knows what a drag it is getting old. When we first met him in the Edwardian England of The Vesuvius Club he was a famous portrait artist by day and a top-rate spy by night. (In Gatiss' fiction, the British Royal Academy of Arts is a front for His Majesty's Secret Service, staffed by paintbrush-wielding assassins.) In Vesuvius' sequel, set in the 1920s, Box's paintings have gone out of style. He's being upstaged by a younger spy-a blond twit named Percy Flarge-and his hair is going gray. Good thing he's still an expert in the art of seduction.See the full content of this document
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Satanic Snot Rags and Potbellied Dinosaurs
Satanic Snot Rags and Potbellied Dinosaurs
A reading list to thaw your brain, spleen and heart.A quarter of the way through life's journey, Phoebe Shankar finds herself ... not in a dark wood, exactly, but a...See the full content of this document
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