The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Smoke.

The ironic thing to me is that Peanuts always seemed darker than Bukowski, in my mind. I mean, Bukowski has this whole “drugs and sex and women and pain, I’m reveling in it, look at me” thing he does. But Peanuts was kind of about the rejection of childhood, which is a hell of a lot heavier.

koeselitz on the Peanuts-Bukowski parody
[(2007 July 30) .]

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