Smashed by Junji Ito5/31/2023 His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself.
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Blue Mountain by Cardeno C.5/31/2023 When it comes to PNR there are only a few handful of authors who I really trust to make my reading experience a unique one, and Cardeno C is one of them. Now, add (once again) the also talented Sean Crisden in the mix bringing to life these characters with his incomparable voice, and BOOM!, –another kick ass combo for another KICK ASS STORY. God really gifted Cardeno C with an extraordinary imagination that allows all of us loyal and devoted fans to enjoy the magnificent stories we all have come to love, and Blue Mountain is not the exception. With patience, seduction, and genuine care, Mitch will ride out the storm while Simon slays his own ghosts and Mitch’s loneliness. A mate is a dream come true for Mitch, and he won’t let little things like Simon’s rejections, attacks, and insults get in their way. Mitch lives on the periphery, quietly protecting everyone, but always alone. But instead of killing him, the Alpha takes Simon home.Ī man of action, Mitch Grant uproots his life to support his brother in leading the Blue Mountain pack. When a hulking, rough-faced Alpha catches Simon on pack territory, he tries to escape what he’s sure will be imminent death. Exiled by his pack as a teen, Omega wolf Simon Moorehead learns to bury his gentle nature in the interest of survival. The blank slate pinker5/31/2023 But we now know that the mind is not a homogeneous orb invested with unitary powers or across-the-board traits. Before the revolution, commentators invoked enormous black boxes such as 'the intellect' or 'the understanding', and they made sweeping pronouncements about human nature, such as that we are essentially noble or essentially nasty. It is now possible to make sense of mental processes, and even to study them in the lab. "Beginning in the 1950s, with the cognitive revolution, all that changed. These, he says, have freed us from our age-long ignorance. He offers just three lifelines: the "new sciences of the mind", cognitive science, behavioural genetics and evolutionary psychology. The trouble begins when "Pinker Two" starts to tell us how to understand this nature, now that we can believe in it again. That nature is, he says, a rich and legitimate heritage, not an extraneous tyrant.Īll this is surely fine indeed I have said much of it myself. Attacking the linked doctrines of empiricism ("the blank slate"), romanticism ("the noble savage") and dualism ("the ghost in the machine"), he urges us to accept realistically, in our theories as we do in everyday life, that much of our conduct and feelings are indeed rooted in the physical nature that is given to us, rather than coming from a mysterious entity called society or appearing from nowhere. |