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Looking to spoil yourself this year for Christmas. Swiss manufacturer design studio Kross Studio has unveiled a desk clock in the shape of the 1989 Batmobile. Only Bruce Wayne can afford a gadget like this. Better not tell your girlfriend or wife the price tag, this is one gadget that you cannot stash in your closet from her. Be prepared to take publish transportation for the rest of your life.

Avatars of the underground, figureheads of the free festival scene and heralds of punk, Hawkwind were one of the bands that defined the 1970s. At the height of their artistic and commercial powers, Hawkwind channeled and amplified the era’s psychic tenor via a science fiction sensibility, mind-blowing visuals, and their unique brand of deep space psychedelia.

Fully embrace the intrigue and innate force of The Child with this intergalactic necklace for her. Fashioned in sterling silver, the pendant is crafted in the iconic silhouette of The Child, from the Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. Sparkling round-cut diamonds embellish the pendant for a total diamond weight of 1/10 carat. The pendant hangs from an 18-inch box chain. Inspired by Star Wars: The Mandalorian, now streaming on Disney+.

Preston Blair began his career in the early 1930s at the Universal studio under Walter Lantz and Bill Nolan. He went on later to work for all the major animation studios from Walt Disney to The Flintstones at Hanna-Barbera for over 50 years. You will recognize his footprint in animation through the halcyon days of animation. However, he is better known for his book, Cartoon Animation with Preston Blair, published in 1948. A brand-new edition of Cartoon Animation with Preston Blair is available by Walter Foster Publishing, an imprint of The Quarto Group.

And you thought the life of a pumpkin was easy. Now we know why the Great Pumpkin never made an appearance

Time constriction has made it hard for me to read books. Open Culture just opened up that option. They have links to over 1000 audiobooks to download or stream depending on the offering. I am planning to listen to my heart’s content. Some classic books are read by famous actors. This is a great find for people such as me looking for an alternative to digest some literature.

Mac Raboy might not be a household name in the general public, as Jack Kirby or Neal Adams might be. The latest offering from TwoMorrows Publishing celebrates the life of Mac Raboy, the comic book artist that influenced pop culture and many artists in later years. TwoMorrows are the curators of past and present creators in the comic industry. Their book Mac Raboy Master of The Comics is a unique detailed glance of the man and legend like nobody has ever told.

“You must unlearn what you have learned.” -Yoda

“Nothing is believably conjured to life in Bottle Grove. No spell is cast, no character takes root in the reader’s heart. Captive to Handler’s cleverness, to his allusive play and lack of rigor, the reader tries to make sense of the proceedings, to no avail.”

It started with a surveillance video uploaded on YouTube in 2014. The video’s description claims that the clown’s name is Wrinkles, that he lives in Florida, and that he is hired by children’s parents to punish kids who misbehave. After the video went viral, other mysterious videos popped up online…Wrinkles pushing a cart through a parking lot. Waving alongside a busy highway. Holding balloons in front of a suburban home. The unsettling clips launched WRINKLES THE CLOWN to internet infamy. Cryptic stickers with a phone number were plastered on telephone poles and in bathrooms across the state, promising to terrify misbehaving children. Over 1 million voicemails were left. Wrinkles the Clown follows this eerie real-life character and explores the unpredictable spread of imagination in the internet age.

With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan—strong-willed mom (Anne Meara), taciturn dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in tow—has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations.

The music of Bob Dylan has always been poetic. Bob dabbed in actual poetry with his infamous 1971 Tarantula book of prose. Critics did not respond in kind throughout the years.

Tarantula is more of a tribute to Arthur Rimbaud’s prose style. Will Patton breathes new life into this body of work as he reads the lesser-known work of Bob Dylan.