Doc Sweets breaks down Oscar Wilde’s tale of the pretty boy who ain’t gonna stay pretty 4 eva.
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A print by Paul Bommer inspired by the 18th century English poet Christopher Smart’s eulogy of his cat Jeoffrey.
Research psychologist Kevin Dutton profiles one of the most nailed-down functional psychopaths ever to down a Martini.
Doc Sweets on Emily Brontë’s classic tale of two fat cribs and a playa’s soul torn between love and hate.
Imgur user ChihiroSen and Redditor AtlaKorra‘s collections of Harry Potter book covers from around the world.
Is it really a tragedy? Sparky Sweets PhD sez fate be doin’ our lovers straight dirty.
Either way, shit be cray.
A letter sent by 24 year-old future screenwriter Robert Pirosh (1910 – 1989) to the directors and producers of Hollywood in 1934.
It landed him three interviews and a job as junior writer with MGM which led on to a gig writing for the Marx Brothers and, later, an Oscar for his script for Battleground in 1949.
(Pic: guardian)
(H/T: Marsupial)
This week, Doc Sweets be breakin’ down Dostoyevsky’s existentialist classic.
Decked out with too much consciousness, a fool be miserable and lonely as hell.
But you knew that.
Doc Sweets on Ralph Ellison’s novel of a black narrator finding his true identity in a world full of phonies tryin’ to tell him who he be.
Previously: The Sun Also Rises
A not entirely accurate tribute (or ripoff) of Ian Dury’s Bus Driver’s Prayer, which was itself a tribute/rip-off of earlier variants.
Presumably, it’s been there since last month.