milagrojones

What kinds of work does the most damage, both short term and long term?

Now that some of the restrictions are being tentatively lifted on neurological research using hallucinogens in the US, what sorts of experiments would you like to see conducted?

Are there any companies or corporations out there that are treating their employees right, given this understanding of the toxic effects of work itself?

Luckily, I made a transcript of this video before it got taken down, but Peter Matthiessen tells Charlie Rose that he invented "The Paris Review" as a CIA front. It's a pretty great interview, and "Shadow Country" is a pretty great book.

http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=249&mode=one

What is the deal with this recent article about Mark Millar?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114150/mark-millar-kick-ass-2-author-comics-sickest-mind

It is pretty reprehensible journalism to do an article about "an edgy Scottish comics writer" and not mention:

1). Grant Morrison 2). The fact that Millar is a hardcore Catholic and how weird that is. He is basically the Mark Helprin of comics.