So Kickstarter just selected our Gujarati Pulp Fiction campaign as a "Project We Love"... which will apparently make it more visible on their platform. Yay!
Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in the United States. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction.
Before elections PM #PetteriOrpo
promised that state owned #old#forests must be protected. After elections, the Orpo government is politically tuning the criteria of old natural forests so tight that valuable old forests defined by researchers can be logged. #Finland#forestry#conservation#PulpFiction
"Christ", muttered Charles, as he unveiled the portrait.
Speaking at the unveiling, the artist said that he wished to explain “two artistic pieces of licence.Yeo said: “One is the colour, obviously, which was inspired by the colour of the bright red tunic of the Welsh Guards.
“The other thing is the butterfly. I would love to take full credit for that but it was actually the subject’s idea.”
“Well, believe it now, motherfucker, we got to get this portrait off the road! You know folks tend to notice shit like you painted a portrait drenched in fucking blood!"
Addendum: we should address the 🐘 in the room… in case of confusion, there is of course a FICTIONAL “John Galt”, created by a very famous American author, whose towering influence on literature still resonates today…
…of course I speak of the late, great Robert E. Howard, whose character “John Galt” appears in the short story “Black Talons”, published in STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES, Dec 1933 (it’s not one of his best, though—stick to #Conan the Barbarian)