Brian Kesinger, a story artist at Disney, has a series of awesome steampunk drawings done in watercolour, tea, and ink. See the rest.

A Vogue typewriter ribbon tin.

[Via Janine Vangool]

Interviewer: Do you think you would have been so happy if you had not been a writer?

Wodehouse: No. I think a writer’s life is the ideal life. I can never understand these fellows like Evelyn Waugh who did not always have the idea of being a writer. I always wanted to be a writer.

Interviewer: Do you always enjoy writing?

Wodehouse: Oh, yes. I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

A 1975 interview with P.G. Wodehouse, conducted one month before his death, in the Paris Review.

Medusa, by Charmaine Olivia.

Glad Day Bookshop, Canada’s oldest gay bookstore, now makes just eight sales a day. Owner John Scythes wants to make one more: he recently announced that the store is for sale.

“I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be here,” Scythes says. He hasn’t been able to pay himself in two months.

Glad Day’s new owners will have their work cut out for them. Gay and independent bookstores have been closing en masse in the past few years. Montreal’s L’Androgyne closed in 2002. Toronto’s This Ain’t the Rosedale Library left the Church-Wellesley Village in 2008 and closed in 2010. New York’s Oscar Wilde Bookshop, previously the oldest gay bookstore in North America, closed in 2009.

Read the rest at Xtra.

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“On Thursday, The Weekly Standard, a conservative news and opinion magazine, sent subscribers an email with the subject “Congress to mandate pro-homosexual education?”

If the word “homosexual” doesn’t send off a red flag of right-wing homophobia, then every other word in the email will. Salon’s Justin Elliott, who first reported on the story, described it as “remarkable for its fierce anti-gay rhetoric […] the sort of language one would expect to find in Ron Paul’s 80s-era newsletters that the Standardhas been so critical of.” (In the newsletters, Paul allegedly wrote about a “federal-homosexual cover-up” of the impact of AIDS.)”

Read the rest at Autostraddle.