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Excelsior – RIP Stan Lee

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

Stan Lee pulled off both- and in so doing he created not just a world, but an entire universe all his own.

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Stand Up Teachers – or – The Conversations Comedians Have Been Telling Us to Have for Years

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

Excerpts of some of the best life lessons I’ve gotten from stand up comedians, including decades old warnings on toxic masculinity and gun violence.

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The American Haiku

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 18, 2017March 27, 2019

Wherein I discuss how the Comic Strip is America’s equivalent of the Japanese Haiku and other thoughts on the constraints of medium.

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