Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) Marten’s Finest Hour
the most infuriating punchline I have ever written…so far
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(xkcd.com) Air Fact
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sad Saturday quickies
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Herb and Jamaal, 4/19/25 I wonder if Jamaal knows that Rev. Croom, who to all appearances is just…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien
This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien’s world or adaptations of it, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the themes of Tolkien’s work, which express themselves in the metaphysical architecture…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Not taking questions on which “biz” I’m talking about
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/18/25 The chronology of this Rex Morgan storyline flashback has now looped back around to…
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(QC RSS) Thing One And Thing Two
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(xkcd.com) Anchor Bolts
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly sullen teen edition
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dustin, 4/17/25 Really loving Dustin’s facial expression in the second panel here. “Ah,” he’s thinking, “he doesn’t love…
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