So I’ll illustrate with cover art.
An account of conservatives taking over a library board and what followed.
I wouldn’t say House Speaker Mike Johnson is a square (as we used to call them) just because he suggests replacing Bad Bunny as Superbowl entertainment with MAGA-approved Lee Greenwood. Okay, yes I would say it.
Is Spotify using ghost artists (not AI, though I’m sure that’s coming) to replace legit musicians entitled to royalties?
As a concept for storytelling, Choose Your Own Adventure goes back further than I thought.
Among Ben Franklin’s accomplishments: inventing the modern lending library.
Daniel Kibblesmith on AI art: “People who don’t know how to invent anything except fundraising are using computers to create a world where they can insert themselves as middlemen and pretend they invented everything we already had.”
“Popular music may not be satanic, but MAGA is right to see it as mostly liberal. That’s why they fear it. Far from avoiding transcendent artistic experiences, the left can lay claim to most of them. Most everything from Taylor Swift to the grittiest punk music is made by people on the left. That’s why evangelicals want their kids to avoid it. They rightly believe that it’s hard to go back to mediocrity after you’ve tasted excellence.”
The real life young women who inspired the Pink Ladies of Grease.
“Asian Americans, especially Asian American women, are NOT some test case for seeing what you can get away with, Patriarchy.com. We know you THINK we are, because we’re the model-adjacent-minority or WHATEVER, but we are not that football.“
“A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters and who sought their removal from youth shelves will be paid $700,000 after settling a lawsuit.”
Covers top to bottom by Gervasio Gallardo, Earle Bergey, Ed Emshwiller, Richard Powers. All rights to images remain with current holders.
