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Harvey Pekar Made Me the Man I Am Today (Sort of)

Monday, July 12, 2010

Harvey Pekar died yesterday. If the name doesn’t ring a bell you probably weren’t a comic collector in the 80s and 90s, or you missed the film version of Pekar’s comic American Splendor where Pekar was played by Paul Giamatti (accompanied by James “Doc Venture” Urbaniak and Judah “30 Rock” Friedlander as Pekar friends R. [...]

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My First National Exposure: An Auspicious Start

Monday, May 17, 2010

Sent to me by my friend Kathy, who is plundering her personal archives. From The Nose… July 1994. Edited down from a longer piece (I was told that it was “too literary” and needed to be tacked back a bit, which is fine, because The Nose wasn’t Harper’s). Oh, so much has changed since then. [...]

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I Can’t Understand Why I Didn’t Get Dates in High School

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

And I didn’t even do most of the programming. I just tagged along with an even bigger dork and provided the text.

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