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It’s that time of year when we search for the perfect gift for everyone on our list but let’s not forget your favorite sewing & quilting friends. To help out, I put together a fun list of affordable quilter gifts. If you are looking for budget-friendly gift ideas this holiday season, look no further! I’ve put together a list of affordable quilter gifts that will cover every sewing enthusiast on your list. The list includes a range of unique novelty gifts to the perfect must-have tool. Many of the items I personally own and used in the studio. They have...

  (This essay is the final installment of a series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 3.5). The purpose of this essay series is to illuminate a path toward the transcendence of the ancient pattern that Rene Girard called sacrificial violence, in which society discharges its rage, its anxiety, and its rivalries upon a dehumanized victim class. This latent force swells in times of social stress as in an economic crisis, famine, plague, or political upheaval. Then elite powers can hijack it toward fascistic ends. In Part 3 of this series, I looked at the stigmatization and ostracism of...

In his conversations with Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock defined suspense as a bomb under a table that only the audience sees, with a timer that only the audience knows about. "In these conditions this same innocuous conversation becomes fascinating because the public is participating in the scene," he said. "The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen." That participation, a suspense by helpless omniscience, is what makes thrillers thrill. The 1980s were a banner age for knowing too much. Early thrillers churned in the lingering fallout of Vietnam; later ones trafficked in the constant threat of nuclear annihilation,...

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CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – As a huge advocate of Bullet Journaling, and journaling in general, I take a lot of notes. I go through several of my favorite Leuchtturm1917 notebooks each year and even more Schmidt ink refills. I’m also a proponent of paying more for higher-quality versions of the items you use most often. This is why after accepting the offer for my current job I immediately purchased a highly-reviewed, well-designed bolt action pen to celebrate. That pen has proved its worth for years after outlasting countless lesser pens that couldn’t hack it. The only other pen I ever considered...