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Derf Backderf

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Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.

  1. Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

    This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

    Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

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  2. Colin Clive is one of the hammiest actors to ever grace the screen. Truly awful. And apparently such a raging alcoholic, stagehands had to steady him during some scenes.

    And yet he delivered one of the most famous lines in cinema history: "She's alive! ALIVE!"

    Colin Clive.
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  3. FYI Joe Eszterhas in 1970 was an ambitious reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He covered the Kent State Massacre that year. He was on campus when the National Guard opened fire! His 1971 book, with colleague Michael Roberts, is the best of the contemporary accounts. I used it as a source.

    Joe Eszterhas book on the Kent State Massacre.
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