If there’s anything you’d like to see appearing regularly on Syndicated Sunday, let me know by email or in the comments.
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BOOK REVIEWS
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has their annual Best Of lists up. Here’s their recommendation for .
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CARTOONS & HUMOR
Dan Piraro’s
by Bill Watterson
by Max Cannon
by Tom Tomorrow (November 28, 2011, “Rugged individualists”)
by Ruben Bolling
by Drew
by Randall Munroe
Daryl Cagle’s
Via (via Fark) -
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COLUMNS
by Rob Brezsny
by Chuck Shepherd
by Dan Savage (November 30, 2011, “Busted”)
by Cecil Adams (December 02, 2011, “Is there a God (revisited)?”)
Wikipedia’s Featured Article for November 22, 2011: (See the entire entry .)
“Edward Teach (c. 1680 – 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies. He was probably born in Bristol, but little is known about his early life. He may have served on privateer ships during Queen Anne’s War before he joined the crew of Benjamin Hornigold, a pirate who operated from the Caribbean island of New Providence, and with whom he engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Teach renamed a captured merchant vessel as Queen Anne’s Revenge and became a renowned pirate, his nickname derived from his thick black beard and fearsome appearance; he was reported to have tied lit fuses under his hat to frighten his enemies. A shrewd and calculating leader, he avoided the use of force, relying instead on his fearsome image, and commanding his vessels with the permission of their crews. There are no known accounts of his ever having harmed or murdered those he held captive. Following his death on 22 November 1718, his image was romanticised, becoming the inspiration for a number of pirate-themed works of fiction across a range of genres.”
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MOVIE REVIEWS
AV Club:
Film Threat
Michael A. Smith at Crazed Fanboy reviews .
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MUSIC REVIEWS
The
– You can get CMJ’s free monthly download at their (you probably have to “like” or “friend” them first).
Skyscraper Magazine
– Covering the Tampa Bay music scene.
Thanks to BB for pointing me to this of end-of-the-year music best-of lists.
